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MisterManGuy on 29 April 2017
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Soundwave said:
MisterManGuy said:

Wii Music was more of an exeption to the rule. What about games like Rhythm Heaven, Art Academy, Puzzle games, Visual Novels, and other casual genres Nintendo has done? What do you expect them to do, banish those games to smartphones with no Switch release ever? Nintendo is better than that. Nintendo still wants the Switch to be for casual gamers too, and you should be asking them to just limit thier audience growth just because you don't like it. 

Whether you want to accept it or not, hardcore gamers are the minority. Hell you think the PS4 is selling off of core gamers alone? No, it's also selling to those who want a media player to play some games on the side as well, IE, casual gamers. Hell, Nintendo's whole strategy with mobile gaming is to entice casual gamers to buy a Switch. Don't tell me "But it's $300 with $60 games, casuals will never buy that". If Apple has taught us anything, it's that consumers will buy expensive shit as long as it's desirable. The Switch both in hardware and software, is desirable, therefore consumers are buying it. 

Targeting casual gamers isn't shoving a square peg through a round hole when the Switch is designed to be as casual friendly as possible. What with 1-2 Switch, the Joy-Con sharing, even something like Breath of the Wild is designed to make the open world genre accessible to newcommers who may not have as much time to play games as more hardcore gamers do.

So no, targeting the core gamer exclusively is a loosing strategy, and making games only for that safe-bet audience is stifling to Nintendo's developers. Do you ever think the developers behind 1-2 Switch or Wii Fit made those games because they thought it'd be fun? Nintendo isn't the company who listens to what Armchair CEOs on the internet think, or what meaningless charts say when developing games. They make the games they want to play, not what market research want to play.

It's not a losing strategy. 1-2 Switch is not carrying Switch sales at all, if you remove Zelda, the Switch would be collecting dust on storeshelves. 

Apple is a unique company that border line become a fashion company and they are a big part of the reason why the well for casuals has been poisoned. They have gotten that audience used to free games. 

FREE kicks the shit out of buttons to casuals. They don't even want buttons in the first place, so you have free games + more intuitive interfaces + a more convienant device in a smartphone. 

Look at some point you gotta cut your losses and own up to reality. Besides Switch is selling great and PS4 is selling on pace with the PS2 ... what's the problem here? 

It's not "successful" if grandmas don't play them? Not every product needs to be every thing for every imaginable demographic on the face of the planet. What's next? 

I think you're looking at this the wrong way. You're thinking how is the Switch going to replace Smart Phones for casuals, when that's the wrong question. The real question should be, how can the Switch suppliment smart phones for casuals. Believe it or not, it is possible for casual gamers to play on both their phones and the Switch. They're not forever smartphone slaves like so many seem to think. 

1-2 Switch may not be carrying Switch sales, but it's playing a helping hand in driving interest in the system. Even if it isn't a system seller, simply having it exist automatically broadens the Switch's appeal for consumers. Even the Switch's flagship, Breath of the Wild is very casual friendly, since it's the type of game that can give you an acessible, yet satisfying experience even if you only have half an hour to spare, and it's a great game to ease casual gamers into more complex titles. 

And this is the key thing, If Nintendo can continue to convice people of the uniqueness of the Switch, and show how it's different from conventional mobile games, and how it can compliment smartphone gaming, then casuals will buy it. Sure, not all the games will be free, but like I said, people will buy expensive stuff as long as you make them want it. So far, Nintendo seems to be doing a pretty good job at that.