Skullwaker said:
Soccer moms aren't the only casual market. I don't know if you've realized this, but the new casual market is indeed the average Call of Duty player. They pick up their XB1/PS4, and they buy like 4 games a year consisting of COD, Madden, FIFA and some overhyped game like Destiny and Watch Dogs and wait for the next year. And no, Call of Duty is absolutely not a game with hardcore gameplay mechanics. A game like Dark Souls has hardcore gameplay mechanics. A game like Fire Emblem has hardcore gameplay mechanics. Just because you shoot things, doesn't make it hardcore. Call of Duty is one of the most simple and braindead franchises in gaming today; a toddler could play it on hard and have no difficulty. Almost everyone with a smart phone plays smart phone games. They might not play Candy Crush, but they likely play some other alternative. This isn't an issue exclusive to Nintendo. Nintendo's marketing is bullshit, but it has little, if anything, to do with the marketing of smartphone games. This notion that this market is somehow eating Nintendo alive is wrong. The only thing it's hurting is the handheld market, and even now the 3DS is still doing very well for itself. The Wii U's issue isn't that it's competing with smartphones, as that crowd that only games on phones is never going to be interested in any console because the cost is simply too high. |
THIS infinite times, I would just substitute madden for AC.
