| PearlJam said: Call of Duty doesn't target "casual" gamers, there's nothing casual about Call of Duty. Call of Duty is a "Mainstream" game like GTA, Halo and Madden. Casual games are little non-games that non-gamers play, "Mainstream" games are big franchises that everybody knows about that happen to appeal to many people because of their accessibility. And why would PS3 or 360 owners give a fuck about Call of Duty on Wii U? What Nintendo is doing with the Wii U is giving Nintendo fans some of the games they missed out on. I doubt they will get next-gen versions of all these franchises you're throwing around. The audience for Call of Duty is on 360 and PS3. "Casual gamers" as you say are not going to go out and buy a new system because it has slightly better rehashes of games they already played. |
There is no such thing as a "casual gamer". That's an idiotic term that has been invented by the internet gaming community to refer to gamers who like games that the internet gaming community doesn't like. Hence the term "non-games". What an f'ing stupid term, "non-games" (not to mention "non-gamers"). How is, for instance, Tetris a non-game? How is Just Dance a non-game? How is Farmville a non-game? And yet, the internet gaming community uses the term "casual game" to refer to these games, nonsensically. "Casual" is a description of HOW one plays a game. One can play Halo casually, and one can play Farmville in a hardcore manner - indeed, many Farmville players are FAR more hardcore in their playing of the game than your typical gamer is for games like Halo, CoD, or Mass Effect.
More notably, the vast majority of people who buy games like CoD play them casually - they own it so that, every once in a while, they can pull it out and play a few matches of it. I use my brother as an example - he has quite a few games, but he would never call himself a gamer. Last generation, he liked playing Halo with his friends, and they'd get together for Halo nights... but otherwise, it would just be something he did if he couldn't find anything better to do. He is the typical FPS gamer - playing them casually.
Meanwhile, the Wii U is part of the next generation of consoles. Quite a few people out there are more technophiles than they are gamers, including many who play games like CoD. It is the technophiles who tend to like the newest software and the newest hardware, and are more likely than anybody other than the internet gaming community to preorder games more than four months before the game is due to release. These people are the ones that would definitely look at the Wii U to see what it is like, prior to making a decision on which version they would want to buy. And so, a significant bloc of preorders would be delayed until information about the Wii U version is available.
The Wii U doesn't just "give Nintendo fans" anything - that's the sort of short-sighted stupidity that the internet gaming community is known for - the same stupidity that was shown when the Wii was announced, and the internet gaming community mostly responded with "Nintendo's last console, will only appeal to Nintendo fans"... of course, once the system started selling well, it became "only appeals to casual gamers" - it became the new way to dismiss the Wii's success, in order to rationalise their hatred for Nintendo as a hardware company (many would happily say "I wish Nintendo would go third-party, so I can play their games", because few people are willing to say that Nintendo games aren't top-notch). The Wii U is intended, as with the Wii, to provide new experiences in general. Hence, for instance, ZombiU. Whether it will succeed is something that we'll have to wait to see, but the fact is, the Wii U version of games may be superior versions... especially if the most recent specs rumours are true.
