Nintendo and the decline of hardcore gaming

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shio said:

Kantor said:
Yeah, because Wii Music DESTROYED Halo 3 in sales...

Why can't these people understand that casual gaming is no new phenomenon? Hardcore gaming is not going anywhere as long as the GTAs, CoDs, GTs and Halos of the world routinely sell over 10 million copies across all systems.

Some people are such drama queens...putting faith in casual gamers is stupid. For all you know, for them gaming could be a temporary hobby, and in a few years, they'll switch to mountain biking.

GTAIV, Halo 3 and COD4 are as casual as they come in their own genres... I'm not sure on GT though.

 

And in any event how many such huge series are there?  I would say less than 10.  Which means such sales are open to very very few developers.  EA, Ubisoft, Konami, Take Two, Activision, Capcom (but they had to convert Resident Evil to a 360 shooter to join this group but sales are still nowhere near super casual Mario & Sonic Wii).  Everyone else that makes hardcore games is faced with hugh cost and low sales which to me seems a very unhealthy state of affairs so huge incentive for them to go Wii casual.