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Kasz216 on 20 January 2008
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truthiness said:
Naraku_Diabolos said:

Square-Enix would bleed money for development costs if it were to go on PS3. Just look how long and much FFXIII is going for on PS3. It's like a double-edged sword or like the Pokemon, "Rampardos," trying to use Head Smash (base damage of 150; Rampardos has a 165 base attack stat), which would be SUICIDE if used; it would give a 50% recoil to it. If the game doesn't sell well, it's going to cost Square-Enix DEARLY and they could file bankruptcy. The FFXIII series is a big budget game.


That's an impressive Pokemon analogy, but could you put it units of Libraries of Congress/mole?

As for numbers of "hardcore" vs. "casual" gamers - whoever can trot out actual numbers with sell through data, showing demographics, sex, and approximate percent error, this whole thing is a wank fest. You can look at it and tell that there is probably a sizable chunk of casuals, as well as a fairly sizable chunk of "hardcore" gamers. Actual percentages though are 84.343211332% absurd.


Well, i think the problem was shown in making comparisons like that in Nintendos data for Japan they had like 3-6 months ago. There had way more users per household then the PS3 or 360.

In other words, the Hardcore gamer played it... but so did his casual roommates, girlfriend, parents, little sisters what have you.

So it's entirely possible that the majority of people who purchase wii's are hardcore players, yet the majority of people who play the wii are casuals. Who may infact purchase their own software to play. Which does seem to be the case looking at the software numbers.