ryuzaki57 said:
Let's make some things clear. I didn't say that Switch would have only casual games. Of course it will have core games. Even WiiU had some. I didn't say that every single core game would sell better on PS4 or that all core games would flop on Switch. I'm speaking of economic TENDENCIES. We are on a sales website so we observe market orientations. It's not a matter of always/never. Since I'm asked to define, a casual gamer is a person that spends less time & money in gaming than others. What I'm saying is that Switch owners, in Japan and elsewhere, buy much less 3rd party games than PS4/X1 gamers, and even less when it comes to core 3rd party games (RPG, survival-horror, shooter, realistic racing, action, sports). In the other hand, they buy casual games and indies more often (Bomberman, Snack World and countless indies doing well on Switch). So the conclusion is that Switch is likely to miss many core 3rd party games in the future (as E3 clearly demonstrated) and receive more casual games & indies than PS4/X1. |
Your definition of casual gamer is problematic and doesn't really lend any credibility to your argument though...
If a casual gamer is simply someone who spends less time and money than a 'core' gamer, that means someone who buys Halo 4 for 60 dollars, plays the campaign for 10 hours then quits is more casual than someone who spends $100 in Pokemon Go and plays it for 50 hours within the same period of time... So it is seemingly completely unrelated to the type of game...
But this can't be the case as you then go on to use the term 'casual game'. So what do you mean here? A shallow game? A game based on micro-transactions? A low-budget game? A game that is also available on phones? Or any game that is played under a certain number of hours..?
I'm also confused by your ommitance of Indie games from the 3rd party games... Aren't indies 3rd party? It seems like you are deliberately excluding them from a category they legitimately belong to, purely in order support your initial hypothesis - that 3rd party games don't sell as well on Nintendo Switch...
I don't doubt that certain styles & genres of game will sell better or worse on a particular platform relative to others, but not in the overly-simplistic way you are proposing.
Lastly, let's say that I accept your inference that Switch attracts more casuals - wouldn't it also be the case that it also attracts more 'core' gamers due to it's high sales of indie games? After all you need to have a deeper working knowledge of gaming to even be aware of those games existence due to the relatively tiny marketing budgets. You don't need to be a passionate follower of gaming and/or the industry to hear about GOW, BOTW or GTA...
What are you actually trying to say?
