| Legend11 said: Like Naznatips said it's price that is keeping the casuals away. The only way Microsoft will be able to attract a lot of casuals is when they can manage to get their system down to $199 or $149 and have a significant number of games like Banjo Kazooie 3 and others that will attract the casual crowds needed to encourage 3rd parties to make games for the system without needing a moneyhat or other such incentives from Microsoft. |
how can it possibly be the price when the core is available for less than the Wii in some places? Second hand (which is how ALOT of casuals get their machines) you can pick up a 360 very cheaply, far cheaper than a Wii.
The second part of your post is correct (but contradicts your first) in that MS need to introduce more games like banjo, but the problem is the average 360 owner wont buy games like that and therefore oher game studios are reluctant to produce such games for it. They would get far petter sales producing for the Wii or even the PS3 (once sales pick up a little)
Aside from banjo and that Viva Pinata spin off (which will probably suck), theres vertually nothing else due other than big name death/killing games. Anyone without a 360 now, isnt going to buy one to play banjo and then sit twiddling his thumbs untill someone else is daft enough to produce a similar game for the 360. Theyre just going to buy a wii with mario galaxy.
If a casual market was ever goin to happen on the 360, Viva Pinata should have been the start of it, but sadly it recieves nothig but a WTF? from most people.
I have a freind with a 360 and it was embarrassing to try and convince him the game was good, yet, his GF convinced him they needed a wii and now he will happily sit playing bloody cooking mama!!
