Miyamoto explains the shift away from casuals.

[lord_of_flood]

Not sure I like the language he's using, but I love what he's saying overall. Casual gamers are fickle as hell, and appeasing them has now become a race to the bottom of the barrel, which is something Nintendo now seems to fully understand.

I really hope his comments on Nintendo's renewed interest in the "core gamer" is something they fully commit to, because it's going to take a ton of work to get rid of more than two decades worth of their casual/kiddie stigma.