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Mendicate Bias on 19 October 2010
Jordahn said:
Jinova said:
nightsurge said:

Are you kidding me?  There will always be hardcore games and hardcore gamers.


Hopefully you are right, but things like this will convince developers that their is more money in the casual market. That means that there will be less emphasis on hardcore games and less hardware for the core gamer.

you feel my pain...

Thats just stupid.

Casual games fail just as much as hardcore games, switching over to making casual friendly games is not a magical solution to financial problems. Also while casual games don't cost as much to produce the audience is fickle, nothing guarantees that the sequel to a casual game will be a success. Hardcore games will have dedicated audiences that will shell out money for DLC, expansion packs and will dedicate themselves to a series, buying everything related to it.

Basically the existence of one medium does not nullify the other. Although going by your post history your not really worried about casual games overtaking the market as much as your just looking to spite the 360 any way you can. 



                                           

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twesterm on 19 October 2010
Jordahn said:

The hardcore gamer is becoming more and more of a rare breed.  And sadly with Microsft and Oprah, it's being pushed more into that direction.


Being a little melodramitic aren't you?



 

Jinova on 19 October 2010
Mendicate Bias said:
Jordahn said:
Jinova said:
nightsurge said:

Are you kidding me?  There will always be hardcore games and hardcore gamers.


Hopefully you are right, but things like this will convince developers that their is more money in the casual market. That means that there will be less emphasis on hardcore games and less hardware for the core gamer.

you feel my pain...

Thats just stupid.

Casual games fail just as much as hardcore games, switching over to making casual friendly games is not a magical solution to financial problems. Also while casual games don't cost as much to produce the audience is fickle, nothing guarantees that the sequel to a casual game will be a success. Hardcore games will have dedicated audiences that will shell out money for DLC, expansion packs and will dedicate themselves to a series, buying everything related to it.

Basically the existence of one medium does not nullify the other. Although going by your post history your not really worried about casual games overtaking the market as much as your just looking to spite the 360 any way you can. 

Stupid?  Due to casual party games and motion controls, the Wii blew the Gamecube away sales wise. So I dont see anything stupid at all.  MS is changing its customer base a bit.  

And yes I love to "spite the 360".  All 3 of them that we have in our home. I totally SPITE the f^^k out of em.



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Rafux on 19 October 2010

I just watched the end of the show but could not see if they played Kinect live, lot of fat women in the audience



libellule on 19 October 2010
NiKKoM said:

So now we know where those 500 million dollars went to... :)

this.



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Jordahn on 19 October 2010
Mendicate Bias said:
Jordahn said:
Jinova said:
nightsurge said:

Are you kidding me?  There will always be hardcore games and hardcore gamers.


Hopefully you are right, but things like this will convince developers that their is more money in the casual market. That means that there will be less emphasis on hardcore games and less hardware for the core gamer.

you feel my pain...

Thats just stupid.

Casual games fail just as much as hardcore games, switching over to making casual friendly games is not a magical solution to financial problems. Also while casual games don't cost as much to produce the audience is fickle, nothing guarantees that the sequel to a casual game will be a success. Hardcore games will have dedicated audiences that will shell out money for DLC, expansion packs and will dedicate themselves to a series, buying everything related to it.

Basically the existence of one medium does not nullify the other. Although going by your post history your not really worried about casual games overtaking the market as much as your just looking to spite the 360 any way you can. 

Going by your post history, you praise anything non-PS3 while bash anything PS3.  If you actually checked my posting history, you'd find that I approved of the FFXIII move to multi-platform, praised several hardcore 360 titles, defended several low scoring 360 games, and voiced that the 360 Slim is a great buy.  But since you fail to understand this, your anti-PS3 biasness would interpred anything negative towards the 360 as spite when it could by just opinion or simple fact.



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bobbert on 19 October 2010
Rafux said:

I just watched the end of the show but could not see if they played Kinect live, lot of fat women in the audience

Nope, it was only on for like 30 seconds, basically to give everyone in the audience one. However, I just checked twitter and the number of tweets about it is crazy! It's only been 5 minutes too



Jordahn on 19 October 2010
twesterm said:
Jordahn said:

The hardcore gamer is becoming more and more of a rare breed.  And sadly with Microsft and Oprah, it's being pushed more into that direction.


Being a little melodramitic aren't you?


Maybe?  I have been gaming for 33 years so I find it a rather important part of me.  :)



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Coca-Cola on 19 October 2010
bobbert said:
Rafux said:

I just watched the end of the show but could not see if they played Kinect live, lot of fat women in the audience

Nope, it was only on for like 30 seconds, basically to give everyone in the audience one. However, I just checked twitter and the number of tweets about it is crazy! It's only been 5 minutes too

no demo?  That's so smart!



dreamcast210 on 19 October 2010

No demo? I find that odd.



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