Pachter Says “Casual Gamers Are Never Buying Consoles Again.”

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I'll just say I will be very surprised if the 8th gen of consoles sells more units than the 7th for precisely this reason.

Barring any future Wii Fit type or Wii Sports one off titles that literally sell millions of hardware units to consumers who have little to no interest in playing any other video games, there's just not going to be a repeat of the Wii generation which everyone should acknowledge by now was carried by the casual consumer.

The big unknown factor for the 8th gen will most likely be Kinect 2.0 in terms of picking up significant numbers from the casual demographic, but it will take more than Dance Central 3 and Kinect Sports 2 to make it happen.

But to say there will be no casual market for the 8th gen is saying gaming for all but the dedicated gaming audience is effectively moving out of the living room completely, which is of course ridiculous.

And naturally "drastically reduced support from the casual audience for the next consol generation" simply doesn't sound as quote-worthy as "casual gamers will never buy another console ever again."