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Raze on 25 February 2013

It needs to be embraced by popular media. I'm not talking about IGN or Gamespot, I'm talking about talk shows like Oprah and the like. The Wii had a big embrace from pop culture, which flew it across the casual audience's radars. If the Wii U isn't embraced as much, then it'll likely capture only a small percent of their previous audience.



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IsawYoshi on 25 February 2013
torok said:

Smartphones and tablets. Casuals want quick, cheap and easy games. An Android/iOS games costs US$ 0.99. 

 

IsawYoshi said:

You don't think that both can exist? My friens regularely plays wii sports resort over at my house since none of them got a wii themselves. I still think that there is a market, but seeing the same sales as wii is impossible.

 

There is a big difference in playing a game in a friends house for free and spending US$ 300 in gaming machines. People will already buy tablets and smartphones, so consoles will demand an extra money. The core business pay for it (and pays a lot if needed), the casuals have other things to expend money.

 

Many of them used to own a wii, but they sold it because it focused too much on worthless casual games according to them (this means bad casual games, so they didn't count nintendos own, they enjoyed them a lot), and they have said to me that they will buy a wii u eventually, because of remote play, some nintendo exlusives, but also because the party games nintendo makes, are quite simply the best ones out there. But they are more gamers than casuals, but they buy a lot of the same games.



torok on 25 February 2013
IsawYoshi said:

Many of them used to own a wii, but they sold it because it focused too much on worthless casual games according to them (this means bad casual games, so they didn't count nintendos own, they enjoyed them a lot), and they have said to me that they will buy a wii u eventually, because of remote play, some nintendo exlusives, but also because the party games nintendo makes, are quite simply the best ones out there. But they are more gamers than casuals, but they buy a lot of the same games.


Knowing what remote play is its more than enough to call them core gamers instead of casuals. Most casuals I know don't have any basic knowledge about games (there is a funny story about a friend of mine convincing one guy like that that you can emulate PS3 games...)



Bet with jetforcejiminy: PS4 will pass the Wii lifetime numbers.

IsawYoshi on 25 February 2013
torok said:
IsawYoshi said:

Many of them used to own a wii, but they sold it because it focused too much on worthless casual games according to them (this means bad casual games, so they didn't count nintendos own, they enjoyed them a lot), and they have said to me that they will buy a wii u eventually, because of remote play, some nintendo exlusives, but also because the party games nintendo makes, are quite simply the best ones out there. But they are more gamers than casuals, but they buy a lot of the same games.


Knowing what remote play is its more than enough to call them core gamers instead of casuals. Most casuals I know don't have any basic knowledge about games (there is a funny story about a friend of mine convincing one guy like that that you can emulate PS3 games...)

Well, they are core gamers, but the reason they know about the remote play thing is because I play on my wii u in my bedroom too, so they know that I can just put ac 3 on that touchscreen, and play it there.



torok on 25 February 2013
IsawYoshi said:
Well, they are core gamers, but the reason they know about the remote play thing is because I play on my wii u in my bedroom too, so they know that I can just put ac 3 on that touchscreen, and play it there.

Yes, that is a way to know it. Let's call them light cores :D 



Bet with jetforcejiminy: PS4 will pass the Wii lifetime numbers.

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IsawYoshi on 26 February 2013
torok said:
IsawYoshi said:
Well, they are core gamers, but the reason they know about the remote play thing is because I play on my wii u in my bedroom too, so they know that I can just put ac 3 on that touchscreen, and play it there.

Yes, that is a way to know it. Let's call them light cores :D 

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