Nintendo Domination Continues!

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FaithRaven said:

Naraku_Diabolos said:

NJ5 said:

kingofwale said:
wait, Rachael Ray called it Wii Play "the greatest game ever"?

Well, that settles it, GOTY is given. Everyone else needs to SHUT UP!! IGN, Gamespot... clearly have NO IDEA about anything regard gaming.

Sarcasm aside, Yes, casual gamers are taking over, but it doesn't mean I will convert. Being a gamer is already a 'niche' hobby, I don't mind being a 'niche' gamer either.

Convert? Are the casual gamers doing a crusade against hardcore gamers or something? I missed those news, please post a link.

Some of the casual gamers will convert to hardcore gamers later, not the opposite.

That's completely true. That is how most hardcore gamers were to begin with. They were once casuals.

Thats completely false. There will be way more hardcore gamers converting to casual than casuals converting to hardcore.

Why ? Hardcore gamers are around 12-22 years old. After that age they cannot afford to be hardcore anymore (unless they play games for a living but thats just 0.01% of gamers). They get a job, they get a familly, so here is how hardcore gamers became casual.

When my parents were young there were no video games. So they are not into games. Thats why most gamers were hardcore until now. But now we are starting to see a lot of ex hardcore gamers growing up and going casual.

In conclusion the hardcore gamers number will stay as it is, but the number of casual gamers is increasily at a crazy rate.

 I don't subscribe to this "There will be way more hardcore gamers converting to casual than casuals converting to hardcore.".  The people who have said this in this thread are talking about other people, and not from personal experience.

I am 33, married, and have 2 kids.  I certainly have less time for gaming, but I actually buy more games, and more hardcore games than I ever had before.  I have more money now, and my taste isn't going to suddenly flip flop. Any other gamers that grew up got married and had kids feel the same as me?  I'd like to hear from other gamers that got married and had kids, or are over 22.  Or am I in the minority, and when 'gamers grow up' you are only playing casual now?