"The Console Market is Shrinking" is a BS Statement

[S.T.A.G.E.]

retroking1981 said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
Nintendo's portion of the gaming audince last was a crowd that were not gamers. They were a new audience that played gaming in passing because the device made gaming simple for everyone and their grandmother to play. Nintendo had gone from 20+ console owners to 100 million within a generation and the majority of those consumers could not be tracable back to the generation before hand. Analysts had applauded Nintendo in the beginning for a finding a new market of gamer because these people typically showed no sign of gaming nor about caring about games hence why Nintendo first party was the main thing that sold on the Wii and a handful of third party.

I still think a lot of those people are gaming though, just not on a Wii U. Those 'casuals' upgraded to phones/tablets/facebook imo.

Casuals have always been a part of gaming, it was Tetris that made the Game Boy not Super Mario.

Console sales will decline this gen but how many millions are playing games elsewhere? There's just more option available these days.

Those casuals were already on cellphones/tablets and facebook. That was phenomenon wasnt new. The early woes of the 3DS was blamed on the cellphone market and now that the Wii U they are scrambling to find a reason why. 70 million gamers last gen were unaccounted for from the previous generation. The industry just randomly grew by the success of the Wii, but we all knew by the sales of the Wii that they were only momentarily interested in gaming and they wouldnt transfer over to the Wii U unless Nintendo could create a momentary pleasure or fad-like device like the Wii. They failed, so they didnt come back. You can't explain a complex device like the Wii U to casuals.