| ookaze said: Sorry, but this is not a casual game. No doubt some casuals will buy it, but they don't buy it this soon after it's released. Mostly hardcore people buy games so soon after release. That's why the true casual titles start with few units sales compared to hardcore games, but they stay steady throughout the game's life. That's why Halo is not casual either. Casual titles don't see 85+% drop off after their first week of release. Several even go up in sales compared to their first week of sales. Finally, what I find interesting, is not if GTA is casual or not, I couldn't care less. It's why hardcore players are so eager to call it casual, when they use that term to qualify poor games. I have my guess as to why that is the case, and better understand now that the gaming industry was indeed headed to a serious crash (I'm convinced it will happen now), now that we have such a game that we can now attest will have a 10 average score. The spiral down has started now. |
Actually a bunch of "casual" gamers at my work were talking about picking it up day one.
... so i'd say you are wrong. From what I can tell your traditional casual audience. People who used to play a lot of games or people who only play a few FPS and football games a couple days a week are just as likely to buy games 1st day... because these are the games they are hyped about.
I mean I know plenty of people who use their systems only for "Madden Boxes" who buy Madden every year first day. The usual casual gamer is just people who are like hardcore gamers. GTA is a game that pretty much every friend I knew that didn't touch their PS2's more then 1-2 times a week for about an hour or two had. That, Tony Hawk, Madden if they were into sports... and that was about it.
