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perpride on 01 September 2008
NiKKoM said:
Hmmm.. I'll shorten the wall of text for you:

"Whilst Nintendo revel in their paradigm shifts, Microsoft & Sony desperately try to pander to the casual. "

that's about right...

 

That.

EYEPET looks crazy.



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perpride on 01 September 2008
Incandescence said:

 

10.



S.T.A.G.E. on 02 September 2008
Jo21 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Jo21 said:

they have better quality casual stuff.

(better technology development).

but in sales, casuals digg wii fit.

 

 Please whatever Nintendo makes is well tested on the Wii for the casuals. I've used the eye toy and it was a piece of shit. I had much more fun playing on the Wii then having the stand infront of the god damned eye toy. The thing wasn't even guaranteed to work nearly as good as the Wii did.

 

oh you travel into the future and played eyepet and little big planet.

also singstar.

right.

not many games use the eye toy yet, a few small demos, and that magic-like card game, but that one works nicely.

If id had a store for Sony loyalists, i'd hire you as a head salesman. :)

 



super_etecoon on 02 September 2008

Isn't Bobo going to link his source in the OP?



Sky Render on 02 September 2008

This argument again, huh? There is no actual market for casual games. "Casual game" is a pseudo-term invented so that the elite of the industry didn't have to lump titles like Bejeweled in with titles like Halo. Replace "casual" with "retarded", and you've summed up about how most of the industry's hardcore see games that get lumped into that category.

There are no casual games. "Casual" is not a genre. It is not a formula you follow when making a game that gets that label. It's not a standard. It's a label plastered on games that don't appeal to the elite of the gaming industry. Trying to appeal to the "casual" crowd doesn't work, because there is no "casual" crowd to appeal to. Please, let the meme die.



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KBG29 on 02 September 2008

Sony has had the games to own the casual market for a long time. They however lack the skill to market to a casual crowd. If Sony would have been able to show the world Eyetoy in the same way Nintendo has showed Wii, the PS2 would have had an even more amazing boost in its later life, and people would have been less interested in the Wii and more in anticipation of what PS3 would offer beyond the original Eyetoy.

So, does Sony have the casual games? Sony has a ton of casual games that have mass appeal. Can Sony market to the casual audiance? Sony has neglected to go after the casuals in any marketing, and that is why Nintendo no has a market that Sony should have picked up about 5 years ago.



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O-D-C on 02 September 2008

nope, Nintendo is.



johnsobas on 02 September 2008

no, it's completely false. Look at the software charts for all markets. Wii dominates casuals, ps3 barely has any games that appeal to them and very few PS2 games even make the charts anymore.



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Falcon095 on 02 September 2008
wfz said:
Sony is the King of casuals, but the casuals prefer a democracy, they don't like kings.

 

 lol, you are hilarious.

OT:

I knew it! MSG4, R, KZ, GOW, etc etc are soooo casual..! Excuse me, i'm gona play the best harcore game ever: Wii sports.



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Seihyouken on 02 September 2008

The article is correct, but its label of "King of Casuals" is deceptive. What the author means is that Sony has achieved the perfect balance between casual and hardcore games. Unlike Microsoft who seem deficient at creating casual games or Nintendo who concentrate on them at the expense of the hardcore, Sony has been able to create a series of titles that are able to tap into the casual market without alienating their hardcore fans.