Wyrdness said:
A lot of you are missing his point, the casuals and such never walked away in fact many of them are still around on 3DS as Tomodachi Life showed, Nintendo just stopped catering to them this gen just to cater to gamers like yourself as they did during the GC era. Many of them would come back if they started catering to them again, the 3DS retained a few games that catered to them like AC, Tomodachi Life and even big hitters like Pokemon appeals to them but the Wii U practically flushed all games aimed at them down the drain in favour of an approach more geared to the so called core group and it resulted in another GC show. Think of this if NX is a hybrid platform Pokemon NX alone would bring in possibly more sales then Wii U has in total right now, AC NX could bring in a total of half the amount of sales Wii U has now because these titles have far wider appeal. He's right in that you as a hardcore fan would either get NX in the long run or be replaced by 5 or so other gamers if they had stuck to catering to everyone. |
Why did the casuals walk away in the first place, then? If Nintendo stopped catering to them. Wasn't that a dumb move on their part? There's too many issues with this argument. It's either the casuals walked away, because they got bored. And can't be used as reliable anchors. Or Nintendo flushed down 100 million sales, for the 3DS. Or 80+ million sales for Wii U. For no reason. To win back such an unimportant part of its userbase? This is only about numbers. Not emotional attachments. Technically, we (the hardcore) are only cared about. When the company is floundering.
