Wii's horsepower explained.

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Chrizum said:

There is indeed a major war going on in the gaming industry. It is not a console war so much as it is a war for balancing out resources between Casual and Core type games. In this war, the Core gamer does not seek the eradication of the casual. The Casual gamer is needed.

This is where I think the article is mistaken. The so-called "core gamer" DOES seek the eradication of the casual: to push everyone but them away from gaming again just as they did ten years ago. There is no true threat to the core, not even if casuals are catered to, but the core imagine a threat that people who Aren't Like Them will get into gaming, and this scares them to death, because for all that Nintendo was inflammatory when they described the core demographic as "anti-social teens," one thing they weren't is incorrect. The industry and its core demographic is ailing, and the cure is an infusion of new blood and the resulting socialization of the core.