It might not be like the Wii in terms of type of people they bring and family oriented games they play but what I been observing is that the 360 does bring in casual players. For about a year at work and around town I  have been noticing some of my Co-workers talking about the xbox 360 . My female Co-workers usualy talk about how their husband/boyfriend play it online with games like gears and halo being mentioned. I was suprised when she said her husband played it and asked if he usualy played video or computer games before she said no he doesn't understand how use the computer to well so he never did play on it. This started to become a trend between every person I spoke to talking about how they or friend play it but never played computer or video games before the 360. Today is when It hit me the 360 does bring in casual when I saw someone in line at boston market with a copy of gears and live card. I asked him the same question he said "no never played games too much before but I like killing people online and how realistic it looks on the 360".

So do you think the 360 bring in these type of recreational/casual players because of ease to use compare to a PC and realism compared to a last gen systems. 

Andres9888 said: It might not be like the Wii in terms of type of people they bring and family oriented games they play but what I been observing is that the 360 does bring in casual players. For about a year at work and around town I  have been noticing some of my Co-workers talking about the xbox 360 . My female Co-workers usualy talk about how their husband/boyfriend play it online with games like gears and halo being mentioned. I was suprised when she said her husband played it and asked if he usualy played video or computer games before she said no he doesn't understand how use the computer to well so he never did play on it. This started to become a trend between every person I spoke to talking about how they or friend play it but never played computer or video games before the 360. Today is when It hit me the 360 does bring in casual when I saw someone in line at boston market with a copy of gears and live card. I asked him the same question he said "no never played games too much before but I like killing people online and how realistic it looks on the 360". So do you think the 360 bring in these type of recreational/casual players because of ease to use compare to a PC and realism compared to a last gen systems.

It depends on what you define as a casual. I think it definitely brings in male casuals — lads who see their friends playing a game or see a commercial for Halo and decide they want to play, too. But it definitely has not reached female casual gamers in any significant numbers, and that's the demographic that Wii is spanking them (and everyone else) in.

If you want to really widen your market, you need to bring in women. Just look at PC gaming — sales of most PC games are pretty poor in comparison to their console brothers, excluding titles that actively target women. Games like The Sims and World of Warcraft have huge portions of their userbase made up of women, and are selling in vastly, vastly larger numbers than any other games on the PC market.

The Wii is the dominant casual system and the only system that actually brings in women in massive numbers. Also with the DS, like 50% of DS owners are females.

Thats not actually true. Pc developers like Popcap have lots of female players aswell. (last time I checked the average age of a female popcap player was around 48).

Well videogames in general are much more popular than they were before. If I were to make a status chart it would go somehting like this.

70's - Pinball is ok because of The Who, I like to get stoned at the aarcade man. Games on the computer??? What? Super nerds

early 80s - Only nerds and rich people with nothing better to do with their money buy videogames for their home. Nerdy.

Late 80s - Smoking dope outside arcades' illegality is much more enforced. Many adult/teens stop going, arcade business starts a crumbling decline.
meenwhile at home....
Videogames are for kids and nerds.

Early 90s - yeah I played my Little brothers, its ok, but it's for kids, and like those comic book type nerds/geeks.

Mid 90s - Sports games on a used Genesis or new playstation are kinda cool, but I DONT play games

Late 90s - Games are still kiddy and nerdy, except my Playstation, Tony Hawk rulez! I huff Air!

2001 - 2004 Oh man Madden is the best game ever, I dont care about that Devil Cary game of whatsamusha, Madden man, its all you need. And GTA II, ha hookers. Metal Gear Solid 2 is cool, I bought it, but I don't want to admit its too hard so I can't play it. I think I'll exchange it for like NBA Live or something. I can play DVDs at VHS quality!

Then something happened.....

People looked around and noticed. Others are playing Madden too. Others have these wierd nerd boxes in their rooms. For those who avoided Everquest WoW started appealing to the popular masses too, Infection spread, like in Racoon city. Now the Wii is here and ...shutter (regular people) .. shutter, are ...buying..games. Perish the thought.



... OK I don't knoe why I typed all that. but yeah I think XBOX360 circumstantially sells to cazers, but a little less than PS3, and a wholl lotta less than Wii.