Why are core gamers buying wiis even 360 and ps3 have price cut

[yushire]

bdbdbd said:

yushire said:
"C. Everytime there has been a change in the industry, it's always headed towards the casual/non-gaming market. The "hardcore" today are the casuals/non-gamers that were brought to gaming during the PSX era. Cinematics in a game? Oh boy, that's like interactive movie! Cool, i want that game! While the "hardcore" of that time (i'm in that demographic) weren't so happy with the direction. Just look at PS2:s best selling games, bridged games like GT and GTA, Singstar still in the best sellers lists, Guitar Hero sells million on every platform etc..."

THIS IS... what I want to know about. There are many forums saying that the first year of PSX and PS2 wasnt good either and they say when casual gamers are corncerned the PSX and the PS2 start casual gaming. Sorry even at my age I dunno the gaming history I only knew it from the net. BTW, we have PSX before and we still have a PS2 but we didnt buy it in its first year of launch unlike our Wii. We buy it this year we buy the PSX and the PS2 3 years after its launch care anyone tell me about it, please?

 

Well saying that PSX and PS2 started casual gaming isn't actually correct. If we start from Atari 2600, it was a casual console (using the terms we tend to use today), since it introduced a lot new people to gaming, while Atari 5200 (successor to 2600) was a hardcore console, since it catered the 2600 audience. NES was a casual console, for introducing new people to gaming, when SNES catered the NES audience it was a hardcore console. PSX again introduced new people to gaming, being a casual console, while PS2 was hardcore for catering the PSX audience. Wii is a casual console, because of the new audience, and Wiis successor will be hardcore when it caters the Wii audience. Of course, there are different meanings for "hardcore", but not a one meaning which would define what it actually means, but the cycle i described is how it goes. So, there isn't "hardcore" or "casual", more like "old audience" and "new audience". The old audience defines itself as hardcore and new audience as casual. Now, the reason why you hear people saying that PSX introduced "casual gaming", is because gamers prior to NES are very rare in the videogame forums (actually this is the only forum i visit where i see such. Like Mike Intellivision), who would be saying that NES introduced "casual gaming". And people prior to Atari generation are even more rare, not to talk about people prior to Pong who would call videogaming "casual entertainment" (ie. waste of time). Listen to your parents opininions and you get the picture. The reason you bought Wii first year, is because it had games you wanted to play, when PSX and PS2 didn't have in same time after its launch. It's as simple as that. I didn't quite understood the question you asked, but i hope my reply was sufficient.

No its alright thats what I want to know. So do you mean theres no such thing as hardcore and casual gamers then? No wonder I like the Wii even most people says its not a hardcore console and the only people buy the Wiis are non gamers, the casuals and kids and moms.