Core or Casual: Which of the two markets are more important/desirable?

[Immortal]

mundus6 said:

Immortal said:

mundus6 said:

Core. Casual buy 2-3 games and move on, core are there to stay. That said, both are important, but if you only got to choose 1, core any day.

Don't think the big 3 would be happy with LT sales of 3m each, even if their software sales are 60m, ;).

Actually more like 25 million sales for the 360 and PS3 at least (probably more) and more games sold on average per console.

You don't seem to realize how 'casual' both the HD consoles are already. 25m is far too high. Dedicated gamers altogether probably wouldn't exceed 10m, if that.

Also, even if we assume the ridiculously high 25m that you suggest, MS and Sony would flee from the videogame business if it became such a niche - 100m with 1b software beats 25m with 500m any day, and that's exaggerating the proportion of sales that the cores contribute.