The origin of "casual/hardcore gamers" and other industry bullshit.

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KungKras said:
Doesn't anyone else find the similarity striking?

I believe you should paste a little part of the articule so lazy people can read it and discuss a bit...

 

OT: What the author says is 100% correct in my view. An easy way to see it was the boom of the on-rail shooters.

 RE5 and RE6 on the cool/hardcore consoles vs REUC/DC on the wii Casual console.

Dead space 1,2 and 3 on the cool consoles vs DS EX on the casual console.

And there are many more examples from different companies.

 Some people will say nintendo gamers do not buy third party games as if it was that simple. Normally third party games on any nintendo consoles are niche games, spin offs, gimped/rushed games. And sometime even then they sell well!!

I also reckon there are some good efforts and they flop, but there were/are some good effort that pay/paid off. It is sad, but nowdays when buying a third party game on any nintendo console is very normal to ask what features/DLC options are missing.

 Also, indiedevs normally try to release their games on any platform available, since they all want to reduce the risk of getting stuck with one or two options only, so why this does not apply to bigger companies? They have the resources to branch their games to as many consoles as possible and thus increase profit opportunities. It seems to me that they are still playing the cool-game for the cool-console game.