Why do companies even make core games?

[O-D-C]

psrock said:

O-D-C said:
guys dont confuse 'casual' gamers with 'mainstream' gamers

Call Of Duty is a mainstream game for example

what's a core game then?

a core game is a game built exclusively for a certain group of people, look at a very traditional JRPG, (not Final Fantasy but something like... Ill say Star Ocean IV, but Im not a big JRPG player so correct me if Im wrong) the game is built for that market, it isint built for the mainstream, sure the mainstream can catch on, and in the begining years of many of these genres thats what happened, the mainstream caught on to JRPG's, FPS's etc, and they became big. And now maisntream games in those genres like Final Fantasy XIII and Call Of Duty: MW2 exist.