Is it a good idea for Nintendo to move away from the casual market?

[Soma]

Metrium said:

Soma said:

Metrium said:
They are not moving away from the casual market. Have you even seen the WiiU adds lately? Those are aimed at the casual market.

No casuals buy a brand new system at 350$ at launch. Nintendo knows this. Casual doesnt even know what the WiiU is. Nintendo can't possible hop to get the casuals w/o getting some market penetration first. When more ppl buys the system (mainly cores) the casuals will know what the system is and thx to word to mouth they will start buying it.

Then why this people were buying the Wii to inflated prices exceeding the $350 price? I think "casuals" (ugh that word again) know what the WiiU is, they just don't care. Hell, I'm a Nintendo fan and don't care too much right now!

These were 1) Core gamers and 2) Parents who NEEDED the system for their spoiled kids. Wich most of them were ''core gamers'' and when I call kids ''core gamers'' I'm talking about 14year old kids playing CoD who knows what's going on in gaming. And offcaurse this is a figure of speech since these kids were not playing CoD back in 2006 since the franchise was not popular yet but I'm sure you know what I mean.

Not true, remember the IGN article, I think it was Craig Harris or whatever his name is, about him talking to some of his friends who were not gamers, how he was telling them the characteristics of the Wii and how they were getting interested in it eventhough he also told them the graphics were not great etc. The Wii was able to attract a LOT of people, not only core gamers and kids, there was a clear interest in people of all ages on the system, let's not forget even old people were playing with it!