Is Chess a casual game?

[NJ5]

mibuokami said:

NJ5 said:
@mibuokami: I think the part we may not agree on is where you imply that the audience for these violent/etc games is the same one as it gets older. That is of course partly true, but as you can see in this site, the current teenagers are very interested in these games too, while the Wii is capturing many of the older gamers (although of course people here often own more than one console, which rarely happens in the market as a whole according to NPD).

This is my impression and it may be wrong, but I don't see the so called "hardcore" audience being a more or less fixed group of people, it's very much fluid.

 

Yes it IS fluid! But has not been fluid for the PS1-2 era. The wii is the first console to change the perspective of what is a 'hardcore' gamer because its the first console to have a shifting target audience.

I don't think the Wii only has the so called casuals as its target audience... It's a console aimed at everyone, and Nintendo's game offering supports this.

As for what most third parties think the target audience is, that's another story of course... But things are getting better in this camp, and the party-games market is getting saturated so we'll have to see more creativity from the 3rd parties who wish to make sustainable profit from the Wii.