Casual Games

[Infinity]

The Ghost of RubangB said:

Infinity said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Halo, Madden, Guitar Hero, Grand Theft Auto, anything that can sell more than 10 million copies.

Nope. A casual game is not determined by sales. I will now add to the list to further distinguish what a casual game is and refute The Ghost of RubangB's samples:

Hail to the Chimp

I'm not saying games are casual because they sell 10 million. I'm saying games sell 10 million because they're casual. At least, they have "casual appeal," which is part of "broad appeal" or "mass appeal" or "it's fun for everybody because it's just fun dammit."

Here is a list of million sellers. http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php Only 31 games have broken 10 million sales. Of those 31 games, how many would you say are strictly hardcore games? Or are they... casual? Or are they hardcore and casual at the same time? Or does that list make the terms meaningless? Or what?

No, I do not equivocate mass appeal with casual. To me they are not the same thing at all. At this early stage of trying to describe what casual is since noone else has contributed, I will say that they have some sort of simplistic and extremely static gameplay.