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Netyaroze on 24 November 2009
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I think the first of all its the Core Gamers the FSP WRPG Lover which buy the magazines and do research on the Web so the target audience for the media is the same as it is for the HD Consoles. The media is LIVING mainly because of the HD Consoles. The people which probably make more then 50% of the Wii consumers are NEW gamers which are not interested in investing much more time in Videogames, And the other 50% well,

Fact is the HD Consoles have the bigger marketshare so ofcourse the focus is mainly on the HD Consoles and Nintendo turned NON Gamers in Gamers with their new strategy. 25 Milllion GC owners have eventually the WII and the rest is just not interested in gaming information. So we have 50% WII Core gamer thats 25 Million and thats just 1/3 of the total audience. So its obvious why the HD Consoles just take more room. And the 3rd party developer just earn more money with the HD Consoles thats the reason why they focus on the HD Consoles.

Is this really new information ? The blue ocean strategy changed the market completly. The Gen before it was not that obvious but this Gen Nintendo aquired a lot of new gamers so the gamers are divided between Casual and Core. I use this terms to describe the difference between the gamers which were added to the market not to differentiate them by the games they play. GC gamers are for me Core gamers too because they are not new.


The Focus will change from HD to Wii in the second the released 3rd party games will be even more succesful then their HD Versions and the people which own the Wii would pay attention to Videogame news. The media is not really biased they are just interested in the same thing the audience is interested in. And as long as 3rd Party games are performing better on HD Consoles AND the audience will act the same way they are now the Focus will be mainly on the HD Consoles.

Wii has opened a new market. And the old one is divided between the Xbox and PS3 and at the moment the classical Console market is the bigger.