Media Create Hardware, Nintendo Wii hits new low

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HappySqurriel said: What our current hardcore games are will never go away as long as the current "hardcore" market still has an interest in them, but it is likely that they may take a back seat to other games ... As your girlfriend, mother, daughter, sister, father and grand parents all become interested in videogames (on some level) games that interest them will likely be able to draw attention away from games that interest you ... Think of it like Music ... Currently Pop, Hip-Hop and Rap are remarkably popular in the mainstream but that doesn't make Rock and Metal go away does it? Will country ever be popular in the mainstream? Do people stop making country albums?

Here you have it .There will be still FF or Devil May Cry or Lost Planet ,but if it sells 1/10 of the game for daughters ,sisters ,fathers and grand parents it becomes its own niche games or sector of games.Lurking around the Top 50 or Top 100 at best .And people laughing in forums about how Baby Training beat the new Halo or FF by ten to one .Make no mistake ,if this happen the shift of most developers will be to create casual games that sell 2 million between all the casuals ,daughters ,sisters ,fathers and grandparents and not expensive and deep games that sell 250-300k units .Its the las of capitalism .Yes ,there will be a niche for hardcore somewhere but why do we have to have a niche in a industry that was our own ? And if you see this scenario very far away (at least the most sold game was Crackdown and the hardcore games seem still to do well in Occident ) look at what has happened in Japan ,where the casual games of the DS have had total control over the charts last year and have managed to eclipse many great games on other consoles ....the triumph of the casuals in a big degree is the beggining of the end for the traditional gamer market .Our own companies of hardcore games will soon understand that creating complex games spending millions to sell 1 million is useless when they can create cheapo casual games and sell millions to all the casuals out there .