vaio said:
PS 1 & 2 were the weakest consoles and won so I would say that gamers have always been pretty casual and not that they are becoming more casual now if anything it seems more casual because of the vast new users flocking to gaming. |
Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner!
The Wii is not a new thing; it's the true separation of the "casual" and "core" demographics. During generations 3 to 6, both of these were combined into the winning consoles' sales figures. In this generation, the casuals have gone to the Wii (in general) and the cores have chosen the Xbox 360 and PS3. We can now see the true sizes of each market, but the split was always there.
During the PS and PS2 era, Sony looked at the top ten selling games and they were mainly core. They focused their next console on that audience. Unfortunately, the next 100 games after those top 10 were generally casual and actually made up a far bigger total than the top ten. The PS won not because of the ten, but because of the hundred - it's width of market, not hype or large day-one sales that drives an install base.
