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Slimebeast on 17 May 2012
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kowenicki said:
Slimebeast said:
Pachter is king, and he is again right.

I have been trying to argue this for awhile, namely that MS is making a HUGE mistake by investing in the casual market in next gen (it was already a mistake by MS to so blatantly ignore the hardcore in the last part of this gen as they lost nearly all their reputation of catering to the core gamer within just two years).

It's fact that casuals are easy to lose, that many of them now are on Facebook and smartphones.

PS4 will easily win next gen because they worked hard to strengthen their image of being a gamers console.


it isnt possible to do both?  cater for casual and core?

as for the bolded... do you ever look at the sales of core multiplats?  just wondered....

Well, many many hardcore gamers have already bought the X360 during this generation and it's still their main gaming platform because of Xbox Live, their Gamerscore and endless amounts of great multiplats coming out constantly.

So yes ,the X360 is still associated with hardcore gaming, definitely. But I think MS is not associated with hardcore gaming anymore and I think there is mistrust towards MS from the hardcore gamer regarding the future. So think "Xbox brand + future" and I think core gamers don't have the same trust they used to have.

But who knows, maybe MS are much smarter than I think and they will in fact strike a fine balance between casual and core gaming with the X720. Today I strongly doubt it.