| Legend11 said: The only thing that worries me about "casuals" and I mean the ones being brought in by games like Wii Sports is if they're going to be there for the long term. For example lets look at another hobby, doll collecting. During the Beanie Baby craze there were many people getting into the hobby of doll collecting, after the craze ended many people just there because it was the "in thing" got out of it. Basically I'm still not convinced that what's happen in gaming with casuals is a trend and not a craze. |
Then you probably should open your eyes. I'd guess a good number of people who got wii's haven't ever played a game before, they've just never paid for one. Thanks to free computer games more and more people play video games and are much more indoctrined into the world.
The Wii is just grabbing a lot of people who would like mroe complicated games but wouldn't like your typical hardcore gamer fest.
That's basically what the article is actually about by the way... not the Wii. It seems like anyone who spent the money to get a wii wouldn't just drop out of it as they'd feel a need to justify their purchase. The Wii doesn't have the same problem the Atari 2600 had. Even with a flood of bad games you have webistes which tell you what the games are like. It's not like back in the Atari days where you just bought a game and hoped. That was the big problem with the Atari 2600... well not even that the games were bad... it was that most of them were actually unplayable... as in programmed poorly.
Another intresting note is that of general gamers only 12% or so have played online vs friends and been to message boards like this one. That's for the regular gamers... not the casuals. So it really does show how "Internet hype" can lead to exagerated expectations.
