fordy said:
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You play games for entertainment. If achievements give you more entertainment value then why is that wrong? I could care less about achievements but telling someone there is something wrong for playing games for them is ridiculous.
fordy said:
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You play games for entertainment. If achievements give you more entertainment value then why is that wrong? I could care less about achievements but telling someone there is something wrong for playing games for them is ridiculous.
spurgeonryan said: I will admit that Region locking their systems is total bullshit! Do they make any's less money if someone imports a game? Pirates will find a way. Annoying your bread and butter is a Cardinal sin. |
The local retailers lose out on sales and jobs are lost. Until game prices become comparible in all regios of the globe I think region locking will exist. I Know for example here in Austrai DVD players must be region free or allow a function to be. However BluRay players atm are locked. I complained about it to our consumers office and they basically told me the answer I jsut wrote.
However I kind of agree with you. So perhaps games that are not released in multi regions can be region free. That way genuine buyers who want a Japanese game, as opposed to cheap game will be able to import and play. This way local retail industry is still protected.
Luckily enough third parties are there provide for the core audience at launch. Fans whine every gen, but once Mario Kart and Smash Bros come out they won't complain for the rest of the generation.
Region Lock is painful but utterly necessary: without it, Reggie couldn't troll American Nintendo gamers denying them the best Japanese games and he'd vanish in a puff of smoke (or in a pool of acid dribble trickled from his chin, your choice).
Jumpin said:
I agree, it is kind of a ridiculous term that is funny how widely used it is. Like many people who take part in our hobby are so far removed from typical social discourse that they don't realize what the common meaning of "hardcore" actually is. |
Hardcore gamers play games naked. I thought everyone knew that.
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theRepublic said:
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I've been hardcore all along, and never even knew it...
False, you cannot be a hardcore gamer unless you play games on "The U"
I just personally don't believe the WiiU has proven it can defrenciate, let alone capture the PS360 audience. It still seems far too casual oriented in a lot of ways. I would clarify that when I think of Casual and Hardcore...
-Casuals: treat games like a side attraction. They spend just as much money on games as a Hardcore but are far less invested in them mentally. These kinds of gamers are extremely fleeting and often times travel with the herd.
-Hardcore: live and breath gaming. It has become a main hobby for them, takes less to push them because once they have committed to a series or product they are most often there to stay (unless they are abused).
I think all three companies view what Hardcore gamers in a different light though as well. Nintendo seemingly views those who have grown up with their product name, cherish it, and pledge allegiance to support them as their hardcore. These people want the trinity (Zelda,Mario, Metroid) and are immediately satisfied with getting even one of those. This has worked for NIN for many years, and when they lost the Console throne 2 gens in a row these were the gamers that kept them alive. Microsoft sees their Hardcore purely in the monetary sense. They will appease any group that is willing to make them the quickest/largest returns possible. Hasn't failed them either it seems because even after abandoning pursuits of new IPs many still stay with them. Sony sees their hardcore as those who are more so pledged by the brand Playstation itself, in slight contrast with NIN. Under the unspoken promise that PS will keep churning out old and new IPs that titilate gaming norms, these are Sony's devote.
There is a misconception through the media that Hardcore = Adult Oriented but thats not necessarily the case. Sony and MS both concentrate on those kinds of experiences but its not NIN's style. They may want to tap into that market though for it is something they have always lacked, hence the push for 3rd Parties with WiiU I think.
Back to the WiiU, I can understand where the article writer is coming from. WiiU is doing just fine capturing the "Hardcore" audience they always have, Mario fans(Generalization but you know what I mean) and the like. Those who are not enthused by those types of games feel indifferent tho. What was originally thought was WiiU would attempt at courting the OTHER console's Hardcore by going after the things THEY like. I think that would be the only way for the WiiU to gain any serious market share in this fight.
I think Nintendo underestimates the underlining truth that Sony and MS were right about the original Wii all those years ago. It was a FAD! Many don't want to hear it but its true, hence its rapid decline in the last few years. This is not to say it wasn't extremely successful, yet it was a fad. It built its empire on capitalizing on Casual, which I stated earlier are very fickle people. Every manufacturer always WANTS the casuals but to base your entire marketing strategy on them seems to lead to premature death. WiiU should be different but is going about it in an awkward way. WiiU is simply showing it can "match" current gen consoles, and beyond the controller screen and a little more horse power seems to be nothing but. It might prove difficult to sell a product to people when they basically have something already that does the exact same thing for cheaper. I could be wrong, look at apple and the iPhone/iPad relationship, which I think is the basis of their strategy. Unfortunately the Apple strategy has yet to be proven to work for anyone but them. Only they can sell a new product to us that does the same/less than their last product for a ridiculous premium.........
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Who cares if its region locked less than 1% of the buyers would buy from another country.
Well i think Nintendo is trying really hard to get the hardcore audience this time but will it work.I seriously doubt it 90% of the games i can get on the WII U i can get on my PS3 too.
So if Nintendo really want to attrackt the hardcore gamers ninty need to anounce some hardcore game exclusives rather than multiplats and ports which look identically than old gen.
Right now they have the Ninty crowd and some of the casuals ( but the casuals wont have such an impact this time because Microsoft and Sony realised that this is a big market for them too and they will also find ways to attrackt the casuals)