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Core or Casual: Which of the two markets are more important/desirable?

The Core gamer market 50 25.77%
 
The Casual gamer market 35 18.04%
 
A healthy combination of both 77 39.69%
 
It varies from the big three 11 5.67%
 
Dunno 0 0%
 
Click me for results! 21 10.82%
 
Total:194
mundus6 on 23 January 2011
Immortal said:
mundus6 said:
Immortal said:
mundus6 said:

Core. Casual buy 2-3 games and move on, core are there to stay. That said, both are important, but if you only got to choose 1, core any day.


Don't think the big 3 would be happy with LT sales of 3m each, even if their software sales are 60m, ;).


Actually more like 25 million sales for the 360 and PS3 at least (probably more) and more games sold on average per console.

You don't seem to realize how 'casual' both the HD consoles are already. 25m is far too high. Dedicated gamers altogether probably wouldn't exceed 10m, if that.

Also, even if we assume the ridiculously high 25m that you suggest, MS and Sony would flee from the videogame business if it became such a niche - 100m with 1b software beats 25m with 500m any day, and that's exaggerating the proportion of sales that the cores contribute.


So Xbox 1 hell even PS1 pulled those numbers with only a core audience while Xbox 360 and PS3 only sold 10 million to core? Guess we have very different definiton of core then. What i mean, is not hardcore, those are very few probably less than 5 million for both PS3 and 360. Core buys consoles to play games not much else (except the occasional movie) and the games they play are mostly standard games like Cod or GoW (thats God of War) even Zelda, not Kinect Adventures, Singstar or Wii Sports, thats casual.



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Immortal on 23 January 2011
mundus6 said:

So Xbox 1 hell even PS1 pulled those numbers with only a core audience while Xbox 360 and PS3 only sold 10 million to core? Guess we have very different definiton of core then. What i mean, is not hardcore, those are very few probably less than 5 million for both PS3 and 360. Core buys consoles to play games not much else (except the occasional movie) and the games they play are mostly standard games like Cod or GoW (thats God of War) even Zelda, not Kinect Adventures, Singstar or Wii Sports, thats casual.


Okay, we definitely have different definitions of core -- I count a decent proprtion of the Xbox audience and pretty much all of the PS1 audience as casual. Never mind then, :P.



 

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black_sky on 23 January 2011

The only thing separating a core game from a casual game is a decent difficulty setting system



Carl on 23 January 2011

Not ready anything at all in this thread but...

The Wii is the best selling console this generation, and the fastest selling console of all time.

Should answer the thread easily enough.



                            

axt113 on 24 January 2011

The downmarket/Nonconsumers/overshot consumers are the most important, as evidenced by Wii success



Rumors indicate that it is planning on following the first approach, sticking a new, motion-sensitive controller onto an existing console. Our perspective is that this is the worst of the three options.

-Clayton Christensen back in 2007 already knew Move would be a bad idea