| Vinniegambini said: For me it's really hard to define the 'hardcore' gamers. I mean is it geared towards people who play COD (or other) all day? There is no proper definition. I play Pokemon, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, and Mario among others but don't play these games aggressively. It's more every now and then, when I have the time. I don't always complete them. Thus, am I a casual gamer? And the 3DS is by no means a failed handheld. From 2013 and onwards, we will see sales exploding with titles like Pokemon 3DS, Dragon Quest, Monster Hunter 4, Final Fantasy (Type-0 believeeeeeeee lol). The 2006-2009 years from Nintendo are coming back ladies and gentlemen. Strap yourselves in. |
This is so true, but I think I've finally wrapped my head around the issue. For me the amount of time people play games with is irrelevant; all it means is that maybe they buy 4 games a year instead of 6, or like me buy 6 but never get round to playing the last 2 games lol. To me this has nothing to do with casual/core.
Now people sometimes claim that there are tons of gamers who play the likes of COD who should be considered casuals. I think a better way to describe this group is "uninformed gamers". These is a broad category and I think is pretty self explanatory; regardless of their taste (whether like playing COD, Fifa, Assasins creed or Wii Fit/kinect sports) these are gamers who only know about the massively popular titles, the kind that are swayed by marketing campaigns and the type that have probably never been on a site like this. A perfect example is one of friends who plays Need for Speed all day but when i asked him if he has Little Big Planet he said he'd never heard of it( this 2 years ago).
Now I don't think Nintendo will have too much of a problem with a fair portion of "informed gamers" as they'll be enticed by the 1st party titles and maybe a few good 3rd party exclusives or even multiplatform games which just work much better on the Wii U. I think like the wii it will becoming a secondary console of choice once its lowerd in price. I can't really see how it will appeal to the uniformed crowd beyond people addicted to Mario. Possibly it will be the console of choice for people picking up a system for their kids and that could be big, just look at the 3DS.
