Screw The Casuals, Let Them Abandon Nintendo

[KungKras]

Soundwave said:

KungKras said:

My opinion is the opposite.

Screw the hardcore. They didn't appreciate the awesome N64 and Dreamcast. They deserve an industry where every console is aimed for the mainstream.

The Dreamcast you may have a valid gripe for, but Sega wasn't getting off scott free for the Sega CD, 32X, and Saturn debacles, too bad for them people turned their backs on them when they actually made a good system. 

The N64 did pretty darn good considering Nintendo crippled the system with the cartridge format so it was basically only a handful of companies making games for it. 

Cartridges were fine. They actually made gameplay better due to low loading times, something "hardcore" gamers should have valued more than "awesome cutscenes".

The Dreamcast had built up an amazing game library when the PS2 launched with basically nothing. It would have been an easy choice for informed "hardcore" customers.

Face it, catering to the hardcore is nothing but financial suicide.