What does Sony think about its (new) customers?

[Fei-Hung]

I think you have taken the whole thing as a personal insult and or attack at gamers such as yourself.

As you yourself are aware, there is morethan one type of gamer and not all women out there are casual gamers or just like playing Wii Fit. My mum who is South Asian and around 50years old loves playing video games; casual and hardcore! My dad who is around the same age loves video games of all sorts and so does my 14 year old sister. Saying 50% of women are casual gamers may been seen as offensive to women as you felt offended by SOny's statement.

As for Sony saying the games are an upgrade (the Wii sports resort clone), I would have to agree to an extent, since the visuals and audio will be an upgrade and the addition of a camera will also be an upgrade on just have motion controllers. I.E Eyepet where you can interact in several ways other than just the motion wands. Does that mean Wii owners are stupid? No! It just means they are being offered another form of gamplay which to an extent is an upgrade from what the Wii offers.

I do agree that Sony do not know how to sell it to the masses. I mean the move party thing was boooooooring! the fight game was awesome. Yes, it is realistic but no one said it is being built for the casuals. With the blood and bruising it is fairly obvius it is aimed at beat em up fans as supposed to "50% of women" and or casuals.

I am glad that Sony is releasing a decent number of hardcore and casual titles, although I have to say (since I like the odd casual game. I have eyepet, High velocity bowling, bejewelled, flower and some more), the casual games they demo'd were a bit lacking. I am sure they could have made something than a Wii resorts clone!

To end my post, I think you shouldn't take is at a personal insult from Sony since I don't think it is. I think you looked far too deep into it and by doing so you went far to deep into the rabbit hole.