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landguy1 on 19 January 2011
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Aielyn said:
landguy1 said:
Aielyn said:

Antabus said:

Of course there is a core, which is not the same on HD/Wii. If you take a look at the top 10 selling Wii software (Wii sports, Wii fit and WFP, Wii play, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Sports Resort, NSMB Wii, SSBB, SMG, Mario&Sonic olympics and Mario Party 8) and compare them to what sells on HD consoles you can easily see that the core customer is very different.

Of course there is some overlap, but that is virtually negligible.

And guess what, most likely you aren't the core customer on Wii.


Translation: I don't like the Wii, so therefore I'm going to conclude that the "core" is the people I don't like.

You don't have any clue whatsoever what you're talking about, Antabus. I suggest you stop, now.

But please, don't let trivial things like facts and definitions get in the way of your opinion.

Aielyn is off here.  His comment isn't about hating on the Wii, but more to what "Core" translates to.  "Core" is the demographic that buys the highest % of the software/games for a system.  So, by saying that the Core for the Wii are casual gamers and the the core for both the 360/PS3 are FPS would be statistically accurate.  So when a person buys games from all genre's for a Wii, they are not a typical core customer that only buys 4-7 games for their system total and they are all the most basic Nintendo staple titles regardless of quality.  Atleast that's what i think!

"Demographic" is a word that a lot of people invoke, but few people understand.

And the fact that you've just referred to "casual gamers" emphasises this point. "Casual gamer" is not a demographic. It isn't even close to being a demographic. What's more, the core customer isn't the average customer, it's the customer that will continue to support you as the overall market shrinks. It's the core, the dependable nucleus.

A Demographic can be anything that you want it to be.  Go look up the definition before telling me that i am wrong about its use.   I/You/the guy working behind the counter at McDonald's - anybody can decide what a certain demographic make up is.  A demographic is a statistical group...  Besides the difference of opinion on what a demographic is, the real question is how any one person defines these groups of "Core" or "casual gamer" or "Hard Core".  Unless the person who starts the thread or the editor's of this site create actual definitions of these terms, we will continue to have these same arguments in every thread as we share our opinions of the data.  If you read this thread, that is the sum of it.  Is it a this or that kind of gamer.  Like any statistical analysis, you have to know the rules before making any real conclusions.  Because this will never happen, we will have to just make our opinions and try our best to explain them without debating the definition of each word - i would hope...