Console Market not contracting, becoming more focused

[zorg1000]

pokoko said:

zorg1000 said:

I think you missed his point, all hes saying is that Nintendo tried to open up console gaming to everybody with the Wii (kids, teenagers, adults, seniors, boys, girls, men, women, families) while Sony/Microsoft and the major 3rd party publishers have primarily focused on the "hardcore" gamer which is primarily teenage/adult males.

The less individual demographics there are on consoles, the more niche of a market it will become.

He's right, though.  DRM, lock-out chips, using expensive proprietary formats to fight piracy, region-locking, using difficult to developer for achitecture in order to keep publishers from porting to other devices, these are all practices Nintendo made popular in the video-game industry.  They didn't fight for anything, they just made a business decision to go after a different audience, which was both successful and unsuccessful.

Ok, not saying its untrue, just that its irrelevent to Cloudmans point, which is that gaming should be open to all demographics instead of doubling down on "hardcore" gamers.