| 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. |
A lot of people don’t realize that a lot of “New” gamers Nintendo has attracted with the Wii and Nintendo DS have been playing videogames for a very long time, and many of these gamers have just been underserved by an industry which has never paid too much attention to them.
My sister is one of these gamers, and (like me) she started playing videogames with the Colecovision and grew up playing videogames. In the 1990s the shift towards 3D graphics killed off a lot of her favourite genres on home consoles and the PC and, even though she still played the occasional home console game, she mostly became a handheld gamer. The Wii is (in a lot of ways) a throwback to older times and as a result she has picked up gaming on a console on a whole new level.
