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HappySqurriel on 28 April 2008

A lot of people like thinking that gamers fit into a single stereotypical demographic. For a lot of reasons that are unlikely to change through out this generation the Wii has a lot of support from the following (non-exclusive) categories:

  • Family Gamers
  • Social Gamers
  • Old-School gamers
  • "Blue-Ocean" gamers
  • Nintendo Fans
  • Core Gamers

The only categories of gamers I think Nintendo has yet to (really) gain a lot of support from are "Mature" gamers and Sports/Racing gamers; to put numbers to it, Nintendo is doing well with 80% of gamers and poorly with 20% of gamers. In contrast the support flips when you're talking about the PS3 and XBox 360.



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disolitude on 28 April 2008

Nintendo is dominating because they are releasing a different type of product. PS3 and 360 are fighting for the same marketshare.

Besides, they are dominating in sales and collecting dust at my house category...technical domination, game quality domination and online play domination, nintendo is nowhere to be found on.



libellule on 28 April 2008
HappySqurriel said:

A lot of people like thinking that gamers fit into a single stereotypical demographic. For a lot of reasons that are unlikely to change through out this generation the Wii has a lot of support from the following (non-exclusive) categories:

  • Family Gamers ==> Casuals
  • Social Gamers ==> Casuals
  • Old-School gamers ==> what do u mean ??? old school Ninty games ? ==> Nintendo fans
  • "Blue-Ocean" gamers ==> lol ? dont get ur point = casuals ?
  • Nintendo Fans ==> OK
  • Core Gamers ==> ... what is Core gamers for you ? for me, it is GTA+Madden+GT = Xbox360/PS3/Wii

The only categories of gamers I think Nintendo has yet to (really) gain a lot of support from are

"Mature" gamers YES
and Sports/Racing gamers YES

==> 2 HUGE category in term of games released AND games sales.

I could have also divided this category to make the impression PS360 are targetting a lot of different markets as u have done with the CASUALs market.


; to put numbers to it, Nintendo is doing well with 80% of gamers and poorly with 20% of gamers. In contrast the support flips when you're talking about the PS3 and XBox 360.

==> u are right but most of these "80%" are basically casuals/non gamers that are, usually, not interested in video games or/and dont buy a console early in a generation AND dont buy a lot of games : Nicole Kidman says "Hi!".


 



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HappySqurriel on 28 April 2008
libellule said:
HappySqurriel said:

A lot of people like thinking that gamers fit into a single stereotypical demographic. For a lot of reasons that are unlikely to change through out this generation the Wii has a lot of support from the following (non-exclusive) categories:

  • Family Gamers ==> Casuals
  • Social Gamers ==> Casuals
  • Old-School gamers ==> what do u mean ??? old school Ninty games ? ==> Nintendo fans
  • "Blue-Ocean" gamers ==> lol ? dont get ur point = casuals ?
  • Nintendo Fans ==> OK
  • Core Gamers ==> ... what is Core gamers for you ? for me, it is GTA+Madden+GT = Xbox360/PS3/Wii

The only categories of gamers I think Nintendo has yet to (really) gain a lot of support from are

"Mature" gamers YES
and Sports/Racing gamers YES

==> 2 HUGE category in term of games released AND games sales.

I could have also divided this category to make the impression PS360 are targetting a lot of different markets as u have done with the CASUALs market.


; to put numbers to it, Nintendo is doing well with 80% of gamers and poorly with 20% of gamers. In contrast the support flips when you're talking about the PS3 and XBox 360.

==> u are right but most of these "80%" are basically casuals/non gamers that are, usually, not interested in video games or/and dont buy a console early in a generation AND dont buy a lot of games : Nicole Kidman says "Hi!".


 

Wow, the ignorace with your post is strong ...

Just because a gamer doesn't play the generic FPS, Racing and Sports games that people typically associate with "Gamers" does not mean that they're any less likely to buy a system early in its life, or to buy a lot of games throughout the generation.

 



eliasg on 28 April 2008

Because Nintendo has dominated the casual market...



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Pikaboo on 28 April 2008

Because it's better.



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SuperLloyd on 28 April 2008

Are GTA, Madden and Gran Turismo really considered "core" on this forum? My personal experience with people that buy these games is that they buy ONLY these games and let their consoles rot until the next iteration. That sounds hardly core to me, personally. They can't be contributing to much beyond these two or three franchises.



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alpha_dk on 28 April 2008

Wow, I am so honored to have seen the birth of the new wave of wii-bashing. No longer content with 'It doesn't sell 3rd party games,' here we have apparently seen the creation of the 'Well, it hasn't forced my console out of existence, so it can't be that good' argument.

Congratz, libellue



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mariozeldametroid on 28 April 2008

@HappySquirrel:

That, and casuals could ''grow'' towards being more ''hardcore'' gamers. Remember that we once started to play games too!