Smashchu2 said:
See, this is why I hate when people use casual. 99% they use it incorrectly. Sony's fanbase was the casual gamers. Nintendo's is the expanded audience which people call casual. Nintendo is not winning becuase they stole Sony's market. They are winning becuase they made a new one. Women, families and the elderly rarely bought PS1s or PS2s. If the family bought them, it was for the sons. |
So what you're saying is...the expanded audience isn't casual? Who's using the term incorrectly again? And if Nintendo's audience was entirely new, than how come neither the 360 or the PS3 are selling anywhere close to how much the PS2 sold (when launches are aligned). If there were really that many people holding back from buying a current generation console, than the PS2 would still be dominating software sales. And while the elderly may not have bought PS2s in large numbers, is there any evidence that they were a significant market in the first place? Plenty of women bought Playstation 2s as well. Maybe it wasn't as widespread as for the Wii, but the market was definitely there.
By the way, how do you think the PS2 got a userbase total of 120 million? It just sold to teenage and prepubescent boys? No. It captured the casual market, the expanded market, or whatever you feel like calling it.
