Nintendo Says It’s Looking To Appeal To Both Causal And Core Gamers With NX

[zorg1000]

Soundwave said:

zorg1000 said:

They also tried something in between with 3DS and it has sold 60 million so you cant just look at Wii U and come to the conclusion that people only like one side of the spectrum or the other.

You have even talked about how Wii U has a dozen things wrong with it, you cant just keep changing your reasons why you think something failed to fit into whatever argument you're having that day.

Pretty sure a big majority of 3DS buyers are traditional Nintendo handheld buyers. That would be kids and older players who grew up with Nintendo. Many of the so-called "casual" games on it flopped like Brain Training. 3DS is also overall the best dedicated portable and has the benefit of being basically the "PS4 of Japan" (the lead console) because Japan loves portables as their main console. And it was released early enough that the full impact of smart devices/tablets wasn't felt yet in the first year or so of its life cycle (which turned out to be the best year of its life cycle). 

If you can play Mario/Mario Kart/Zelda/Kirby well ... basically you have "mastery" over most gaming functionality (jumping, dodging enemies, steering, shooting projectiles, etc. etc.), you should be able to play most any video game.

Once you can play any video game, well then your choices are opened to more than just Nintendo and quite frankly Sony/MS do a better job of offering a better *overall* ecosystem of games, not just a narrow range of Nintendo IPs and then some OK third party support at best and virtually no support at worst. 

The main point though is Nintendo is not doing a very good job of finding a legitimate "middle ground". Nintendo's idea of it right now is basically make use very crappy hardware, tailor the system design towards beginners and casuals, and hope that throwing Zelda and Mario at the same group of gamers is "good enough" for the experienced players because the hardware is certainly not designed for them at all. There isn't a great deal of nuance to their philosphy at all. 

You are just spouting nonsense, I talk about how there is a middle ground between simplistic, casual, mobile games & complex, hardcore, console games and somehow your rebuttle is that the most recent Brain Training flopped on 3DS. How is that relevant at all?

You are entirely too vague, you seem to live in a world that is black & white. Gamers are either casual or they are hardcore. Gamers are either novices or experts.

If you can play Mario, Kirby, Mario Kart than you can play basically any game? What kind of nonsense is that? It literally makes no sense.