SE's Wada speaks out again

[ChronotriggerJM]

Bodhesatva said:

ChronotriggerJM said:

I actually do think there will be a big ressurgance of "hardcore games", it's exactly what happened with the PS2, the world got over saturated with big name massive budget titles, and creating them wasn't worth the effort because the market was highly cluttered with them. I see the exact same thing happening this generation also, Hell I've already seen 3 Carnival Mini-game type games on the Wii, how much longer do you think that genre can sell?

I believe the current gen will see that casual gaming is definately a massive profit, and many many people will jump on board. Casual games will sell to many, and the hardcore, massive budget games will slowly start becoming more rare, then as soon as the "Casual" market gets cluster-fucked, the shift will start sliding the other way, with a much higher install base thanks to the "casual" market's increase.

I dunno just my pretty pennies :P

From what I've seen, Chrono, it's the opposite; PS2 "hardcore" sales declined consistently in Japan over the last 3-4 years of its life, and apparently Nintendo went the route they did precisely because of this.

Not saying that a resurgence isn't possible, mind you: I just wouldn't place my bets their because of PS2 evidence.

 Oh nonono I agree with your statement :P The PS2's "hardcore" market got ENTIRELY to saturated. There were so many high budget games that just got simply ignored because of some familiar heavy hitters. The Wii's casual take is "refreshing" to the market, as much as I don't approve of casual games on a home console (I'd much rather they keep to handhelds), I see why it's sucessfull, I just see the casual market overflowing faster than the Hardcore did. It doesn't seem like theres nearly enough variety to the genre (to me anyways).