brendude13 said:
Exactly what I was thinking.
Care to quote whoever said "360 is a casual's console"? I don't think it's a casual's console, but I do think a significant part of its userbase are casual gamers, mainly because the top comment I quoted. I would say that both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 have the same amount of "core" gamers, but the Xbox 360 has more casual gamers than the PS3, whereas the PS3 has more multimedia and home cinema enthusiasts. You are misinterpreting the word "casual". A "casual" gamer isn't just somebody who buys games that make you dance infront of the TV, a "casual" gamer is somebody who doesn't play games frequently, only buys popular or well advertised games (like Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed and Dance Central) or someone who doesn't have much knowledge about gaming. You can't just label someone a casual gamer anyway, it's a lot more complicated than that. The Xbox 360 is the most popular console for people who just wants to play an hour or two of Call of Duty or Gears of War at the weekend, people I consider to be casual gamers.
EDIT: Just realised, what the hell does this have to do with sales? |
Going by your assumptions, the impressive 9 or so attach ratio that 360 had a few years ago wouldn't make any sense, people buy games that are appealing to them, just because COD applies to both the casual and hardcore gamers does not in fact make it a casual. FPS genre as a whole had always been considered a hardcore market, just because COD has emerged and manages to captivate such large sales doesn't necessarily mean that it's now a game for casuals as a whole, every console has people that only play a few hours of the said game - FIFA, COD, Wii Sports, Just Dance w/e. Judging by the tie ratios of games per console, 360 has barely few of those, or if there are en masse, then the hardcore gamers must have considerably more games in order to balance the imbalance that would be created by people who only have 3/4 games as you so insinuated.
Despite it appearing so, COD is far from casual, as many people still play it and most do it competitively, some even make a living from it - by playing it for extensive hours to create videos for the community on YouTube.
Really the whole "FPS is for casuals" is one big pile of bullshit, I don't even know how we got here in the first place, taking into account that it all started from sales.
If that FPS is for casuals is in fact true according to some in this thread, then PS3 is as much of a casual console as 360 looking at the top selling games that are found there, and if FPS is casual, then so is Sport, Racing, Platformers just as much is Dancing, Music games w/e.
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