Paradox: Next console generation will probably be "the last generation"

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theprof00 said:
Maybe you'd enjoy reading this thread.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=77267&page=1

The problem with judging the HD consoles based on traditional core gamer adoption rates, is that 360 and ps3 are LITTERED with traditionally core games of a wide variety of different genres. Third person shooters, platformers, first person shooters, stealth games, arcade-type games, side scrollers (Raiden, etc), story games, RPGs have very different audiences. While there will always be some overlap, these games tend to display a cumulative core base. That is, each genre/franchise makes up a piece of the pie accounting for some overlap.

So, as opposed to using Brawl as a metric, using Halo as a metric is really only looking at a slice of what would be called the "traditional core".

There is nothing more traditional core gamer than Mario Bros 2d and that piddles over the 10 million figure being thrown about.

You could say the same for other Nintendo franchises: Zelda, Metroid and so on. Are they all purchased by the very same people that buy Galaxy, Brawl, Mario Wii? Maybe, but no one actually knows.