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Maelstrome on 18 January 2011
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
Maelstrome said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Chrizum said:

Hardcore gamers < 5% of the market
Mainstream > 95% of the market

Enough said.


I believe the core a little larger than 5% of the market. Core titles sell more than your giving credit.

i think what chrizum is getting at is that mainstream gamers are the casuals. the mainstream games are all the AAA hyped up and highly advertised games.

on the other end the more niche unadvertised off the beaten trail games are the more hardcore gamers prey.


Thats not exactly true. Titles like COD and Halo are an exemption and if you look are still purchased by a minority of console owners, but when you add up the numbers (per console) still come up as a large sum. I'd say that moderate gamers are also helping the core pool in sales. When I say moderate, I mean people who don't really play every game, but can still get down the scheme of complex controls and get into the harder titles when they have time. I know plenty of people like this who only have COD, Halo, Gears and Forza in their gaming collection and thats enough for them when they come home from work.

if we are going to add more sub categories we should just skip to the end and say all gamers are diferent. what makes one core, what makes one casual. when i think casual i think players that dont keep up with the industry and just play random little games and mainstream titles. your moderate player falls under that catagory. when i think core i think dedicated to the gaming scene and medium itself.not sticking to a single console or genre. treats it as a "serious" hobby.how much overlap do we get with each of these? well off hand i can think of a few.  your moderate gamer is a casual becausehe only plays few games of limited genres. they are core because they may dedicate themselves to it as a hobby.

the facebook gamers plays the little internet flash games diligintly and ignores the scene.

the call of duty kids who play the one game religiously and ignore the scene.

the ones that follow the idustry and buy plenty but play with little dedication moving on to the next.

if anything really qualifies as being core its the dedication to your hobby be it gaming as a whole, a specific genre, or even just a single series or game. now in order to do that you dont have to buy a lot of games, you dont even have to play a lot of different games.

in the end really i dont think you can truly seperate the casual and the core directly. if you add the moderate all you do is say that some casuals are core and some cores are casual. that does make sense but may not be what you mean