| libellule said: Actually, They may want to go in this direction, particularly Sony/Ms that want to sell their console to the casual (biggest market) BUT I doubt any of the big 3 will succeed to change how it is view by the consumer : MS/Sony will stay hardcore Ninty will stay casual At best, Ninty will get the multiplateform PS360 games that will become PS360+Wii but hardcore will still buy PS360 while casual will keep on the Wii whatever S-mote/X-mote. |
Thats not really true, at least the Sony part. Sony has always been hardcore at the start, everyone at the end. When the Playstations first come out they sell less and sell to a hardcore gamer market, then the price drops and they end as casual machines. I guarantee you very very few of the half a million people who buy a 129 dollar PS2 every month are buying it because they're "hardcore" gamers. Home, Little Big Planet and other releases will do a lot to join with Sing Star and other games like that to bring the PS3 down to casual gamers, especially when the price heads south of 300 dollars.
The Xbox is the hardcore only machine, there are very very few sales from anyone who doesn't play things like call of duty, halo and the rest, just like the original xbox never expanded beyond that demographic (hence the low sales). I don't see that changing any time soon especially when their big games for this year are action games and FPS games only. The 360 arcade costs about the same as the Wii and STILL noone buys it, casuals just don't buy MS gamerboy consoles, period.
As for the Wii I agree that it is the casual choice, they basically started at the PS2 stage of things and didn't even try to compete for the hardcore (as they had with the gamecube) which was a good move for them. They were always an uneasy fit with hardcore gamers anyway so starting cheap and going casual works well for the kind of games they make.
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