Eurogamer: The recession will hit the Wii first.

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NinjaKido said:

Demotruk said:

griffinA said:
This all stems from the idea that casuals are the undesireable customers. They aren't, they're different customers.

 

Exactly.

 

That's the issue : the fact they are different may mean they are undesirable customers , we don't fully understand the habbits of the Wii's demographic because we have no histroical data to look back on.

Traditional gamers are likely to be satisfied with cutting their living expensives or consuming less in order to fulfil their game playing needs , I doubt this would be true of every traditional gamer but probably more so than the Wii's userbase .

The question really is "are the 'hardcore' people likely to lose their employment less than any other group?".

One can make up indirect scenario's like "hardcore more likely to sacrifice other things";  try my one:

"The hardcore will likely to be most affected as they will be asked by their mothers to finally pay rent for the basement they are living in".

This is just another silly scenario, but takes from the age demographic and panders to the nerd image of traditional videogamers.