Garcian Smith on 04 January 2010
The real story here, IMO, is the dramatic drop in both Japanese PS3 hardware and sales of FF13 (which dropped from over 1.5 million first week to less than 200,000 second week). Looks like the PS3's savior was a colossal dud.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
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