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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Increasing Evidence That Nintendo is Not Serious About the Hardcore Gamers

Saw this over at N4G, meh.

Off topic but that dictator looking guy at the end has the exact same phone as me! XD (silver and black one)



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Why did it take so long for people to realize this?



every time i hear "hardcore gamer" i think of porn. but to talk about the subject as a first party developer nintendo cant compete for the more adult gamer, with the "core" audience being mostly adults thats a problem nintendo wants to solve by attracting third party developers to make those more adult gamers. but when it comes to third party games MS and Sony will slaughter nintendo if they try to compete for the adult gamer, nintendo tried before to make games aimed at adults and failed miserably. you have some good points, i have 80 GBs on my ps3 and i which i had more, also arent they sticking with those stupid "friend codes"? plus i still cant understand why they chose to region lock the damn thing!



Fanboy article is fanboyish. Loved the part about the lackluster launch lineup.



Ongoing bet with think-man: He wins if MH4 releases in any shape or form on PSV in 2013, I win if it doesn't.

1) Isn't region lock standard procedure for most systems? PS3 is not, from what I understand, but Xbox 360 is, correct?

2) I've only played ZombiU and Nintendo Land, so I can't say for sure, but Wii U is shaping up to be the best launch since Dreamcast, if we're talking software.

3) "Very little is known about what the Wii U has in stock for gamers when it comes to the console’s online infrastructure..." I will admit the lack of a headset jack for the Pro controller is a weird mistake.

I still really don't like the "hardcore" terminology, but I guess it's here to stay. I think hardcore gamers want great games, so if Nintendo delivers those, it will be fine.



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Although i never got the point of region locking, I have to think that they are at least trying by getting black ops 2 on their system along with Tekken and a couple of other "hardcore" games. Lets just hope they continue to attract 3rd party support with games like GTA 5 and Battlefield.



Microsoft did some of these things and got away, I don't see why Nintendo WiiU can't do the same.

But I don't think Nintendo started a new console generation, they added the HD option to it. They released two consoles while Sony and Microsoft released one this gen.



someone needs to define hardcore and casual gaming properly, the amount of cumulated bullshit on that topic over the years is phenomenal...



I could write a big paragraph countering all of the points this article makes but since i don't even own a nintendo console right now i guess it's safe to say that nintendo is doomed.



fighter said:
someone needs to define hardcore and casual gaming properly, the amount of cumulated bullshit on that topic over the years is phenomenal...

Hear, hear.

I say scrap them altogether. Replace "hardcore" with hobbyist or buff, and eliminate "casual" completely.