| RolStoppable said: Yeah... no. I don't think you will find people agreeing with your list. But anyway, the terminology of hardcore and casual is of course stupid. The only reason why people started to divide things in two camps is because first the DS was beating the PSP and then the Wii was beating the HD consoles. People could either accept that Nintendo was winning or they could go the route of breaking it down into different markets (with hilariously arbitary definitions), so Nintendo sales were acknowledged, but they were not really beating Sony and Microsoft. Others went the route of not being willing to categorize the Wii as seventh generation console, but that has died down ever since the Wii started to get outsold by the HD consoles on a regular basis. I am confident in saying that had Nintendo lost the crown in the handheld market with the DS and had the Wii gone the way of the GameCube, then the market would have never been broken down into hardcore and casual games. After all, nobody ever seemed to be offended by the sales of Singstar and Guitar Hero on the PS2, as well as the countless licensed kids games like Spongebob Squarepants. |
All of this is my religion until the very end -- I believe the "casual" hatred would have grown from the popularity of social and mobile games regardless of Nintendo's success.
