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

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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....

Not at the same time.

Just look at Microsoft with the Kinect. That took priority over new IP and now we have Microsoft releasing yearly  Halo, Forza and Fable games while Sony is creaitng new IP like The Last of Us and All-Stars and LBP Karting.

As for sales of multiplats, yeah they typically sell better on 360. Why is that? Because of many of these games are aimed at the American market.

But there are exeptions. Look at Assassins Creed. #2 sold better on PS3 and the newer ones are so close in sales that the PS3 version coulc surpass 360 any month now. Also games like Battlefield 3 are really close in sales as well.