Is Chess a casual game?

[jammy2211]

NJ5 said:

--OkeyDokey-- said:

NJ5 said:

I don't care if I look pathetic or not, I care whether I'm right or not.

Is is not true that the casual/hardcore distinction is being much more talked about this gen than the last? Is it not true that most of the gaming media acts as if 360/PS3 is where you want to be for "hardcore" experiences and Wii for "casual"?

 

Yes, and it's true, isn't it? Not saying there aren't any hardcore games on Wii or that there aren't any casual games on the other consoles, but that's pretty much it, yeah...

Gamers in general don't agree, not when the Wii is stealing market share from these two consoles, making them sell slower than the consoles of the previous generation. Unless you think the market of hardcore gamers is crashing of course.

 

 If that is the case then it's much more likely that the market of 'hardcore' was just horribly over-exhaggerated to begin with. Of course, i'd ask, who over-exhaggerated, cause I didn't, and looking at the sales of stuff like MGS and Final Fantasy on PS2, not many PS2 owners did.

 Crashing? No. I'd even go as far as saying the marketing for hardcore gamers is expanding, and those on the PS360 are far beyond what the Wii market is capable of providing.

 OF course these terms like hardcore and casual are just definitions we make up in our head, and mean different things to everyone who uses them.