Iwata: Wii U/3DS will cater to core gamers first, mass market second

[Deoz]

amp316 said:

Deoz said:

amp316 said:

But the fanbase was buying a lot of games.  The problem was that they did not do A in your above statement.  They did the exact opposite and stopped making games for the system all together.

I have a question for you?  If the casual market can be captured so easily, then why is it that MS and Sony had such a hard time doing it this past generation?  

Sony is incompetent in that regard. M$ did a better job but came late to the party, yeat i helped them greatly in america. Also it wasnt just them, it was everybody else, the only thing they got left was shovelwere, and they cant keep releasing the same games in the  same console that casuals want without fatiguing the franchise. Casual arent that entitled to a franchise, too much of something in a certain time gap and you might lose them eventually.

But the Nintendo released "casual" games (I hate that word) were very good.  You are right about the 3rd parties putting out crappy clones.  That is what they did wrong.  Casual gamers might be not be hardcore, but aren't stupid.  They won't keep shelling out money on crap and that's why those games didn't sell.  Nintendo's games like this, on the other hand, stopped selling because they stopped making them.

i think there's a limit in what nintendo could kept making, they cant keep making that many wii_series, neither they can have a another nsmb or mario kart withou taking in consideration the other platforms, As you said casuals arent that stupid to keep buying the same games over and overe each one followed by the other. And becasue of the tastes of casuals a new IP would be really simple in concept not making any real difference.