| archer9234 said: 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 a unimportant part of its userbase. Technacally, we're (the hardcore) are only cared about. When the company is floundering. |
You asked a question that is already answered in the post you quoted, Nintendo stopped catering to them to catering solely to gamers like yourself because they made a mistake in listening to the loud so called core group and not doing their own thing, that's why they walked away. Not aimed specifically at you but like Rol says this group sees themselves as priviliged so won't understand this as they've got the games they wanted but casuals and non gamers got less games to cater specifically to them in 3 years on Wii U then 6 months on the Wii. They thought that the games you liked would help keep them on but no they miscalculated, those non-gamer and casual specific games are a taste in themselves, saying they got bored is in fact the flawed argument when these people are still playing the same type of games as they did before only on different platforms, that contradicts the whole bored argument altogether.
This group in size far outweighs you and Wii U owners and I say that as an owner and Nintendo fan myself, you the hardcore haven't even kept them a float by yourselves as large parts of that have been down to the 3DS where a large presence of casuals still exist, if the portable market wasn't there believe me they'd be in so much trouble with the Wii U. Sega showed hardcore fans alone can't always sustain a company.
