Is history repeating itself? (Casual Gamers)

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carlos710 said:

ckmlb said:
No this time, the console is actually focusing on non gamers and trying to get them to buy stuff. E3 showed that Nintendo's focus is not for traditional gamers anymore. There was one announcement of a traditional game and the whole rest of the conference was about the casuals and the success with that.

Also where is the 3rd party support? I thought there was going to be a flood of 3rd parties supporting the Wii now that it's selling the most. Yet every third party thing that I've heard so far I already knew and a lot of them are either smaller games or casual games as well

 No, most of the games they showed were "hardcore". Not only from them, but from 3rd party as well.

 And the Wii has the biggest list of 3rd party exclusives so far -with the great majority being "hardcore" games. 

Yep. The middle chunk of their presentation was about appealing to core gamers. Honestly, just giving the dates for Metroid, Mario and Smash, all within 3.5 months, should have been enough to satisfy core gamers. By tossing in the WiiZapper for RE:UC, demo play of Metroid and Zelda PH, and finally announce MK Wii by May that really should have put down grumbling.

 And I think many missed or misread some of the presentation - they are trying to get games that can bring the new casual gamer and classic core gamer together in a satisfactory way, and MK is a prime tool. MK has never been a hard game to learn, but it has always appealed to core gamers. The more the new casual gamer can get hooked into such titles,the less casual they will become.