| Zebastian von Kane said: Hardcore gaming is about competition, fame and profit. Casual gaming it just to spend time gaming. Besides, let's not forget Wii attracted many people for the interactivity innovation. That's all. Being hardcore means you have to spend more on your games and you gotta be the first. That's why people has turned their look over the Wii. |
No, that's because the Wii had a revolutionary control scheme, and appealed to casuals even more than the PS2 did.
Yes, the large majority of PS2 owners were casual gamers.
EDIT: A casual game and a casual gamer are two very different things.
A casual game is something like DDR, Guitar Hero, or Buzz. Something not inherently...violent, I suppose. Something which could appeal to non-gamers.
A casual gamer is what you described. Somebody who games, on occasion, to have fun. Someone who loves Halo and has no idea who Bungie are. Somebody who plays GTA4 a hell of a lot, without knowing that it got a 98 on Metacritic.
The 360, in that sense, has more casual gamers than the PS3. The Wii has even more, just due to its userbase.
But you know, somebody who plays The Sims, or Guitar Hero, or DDR, or Buzz, for five hours a day, knows who makes them, what reviews they got, has read up on them prior to release and posts on a forum about them...he's a hardcore gamer.
So the PS2 had casual games and casual gamers. The PS3 doesn't have much of either. And that, above everything else, is why it is in third.
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