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Forums - Sony - SCEA: “We’ve CAPTURED the HARDCORE” with PS3 will PUSH for casual late 09!

darthdevidem01 on 20 April 2009
Retrasado said:
"captured hardcore"

....

umm... if you put "~35% of" between those two words, you'll get a somewhat accurate statement (what the heck is "hardcore" btw?). I love my PS3, but the fact is, they haven't captured anything this gen (except last place) and they aren't going to be able to make up much ground until next gen unless they feel like losing a few more billion dollars.

well PS3 has the best games

so SONY did something right

 



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Omega_Phazon_Pirate. on 20 April 2009

lol Koller, didn't he attack the DSi right before the release, and then it had great sales? lol



                           

d21lewis on 20 April 2009

Sony has me locked in their basement

please send help

-the hardcore



Zones on 20 April 2009

WOW, JUST WOW!

I mean really, VG247 had a fucking interview with John Koller around a month ago, and since then, VG247 had made a story of that interview each and every fucking day, with putting almost everything he said out of contest.

Seriously, that site publishes a news story each day out of ONE interview Koller did at GDC with them, and people here and there say Koller should stop talking anymore, while in reality, he never said much.

VG247 seems to pull a HipHopGamer on us...



rckrz6 on 20 April 2009

Im hardcore, they haven;t captured me yet



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NiKKoM on 20 April 2009
d21lewis said:
Sony has me locked in their basement

please send help

-the hardcore

I'll save you!! Cause I'm still free... wait.. that means... I'm... casual... *goes crying in the corner with his Wii & DS....*

 



 

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Lafiel on 20 April 2009

@ Zones )

that's what I thought, when I read "said John Koller, speaking at GDC" ...

"wait didn't they already have quite a few articles about what he apparantly told them at GDC? "



griffinA on 20 April 2009

Interesting, I too predict singstar, buzz and eyetoy at E3



"Pier was a chef, a gifted and respected chef who made millions selling his dishes to the residents of New York City and Boston, he even had a famous jingle playing in those cities that everyone knew by heart. He also had a restaurant in Los Angeles, but not expecting LA to have such a massive population he only used his name on that restaurant and left it to his least capable and cheapest chefs. While his New York restaurant sold kobe beef for $100 and his Boston restaurant sold lobster for $50, his LA restaurant sold cheap hotdogs for $30. Initially these hot dogs sold fairly well because residents of los angeles were starving for good food and hoped that the famous name would denote a high quality, but most were disappointed with what they ate. Seeing the success of his cheap hot dogs in LA, Pier thought "why bother giving Los Angeles quality meats when I can oversell them on cheap hotdogs forever, and since I don't care about the product anyways, why bother advertising them? So Pier continued to only sell cheap hotdogs in LA and was surprised to see that they no longer sold. Pier's conclusion? Residents of Los Angeles don't like food."

"The so-called "hardcore" gamer is a marketing brainwashed, innovation shunting, self-righteous idiot who pays videogame makers far too much money than what is delivered."

Euphoria14 on 20 April 2009

Why is everyone attacking here? From what I am seeing he didn't say they captured "ALL" the hardcore users. He is saying that they have captured themselves a hardcore userbase already and are now ready to begin focusing more on casual offerings.

Who cares how things are said though, let us just go into attack mode. -_-



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Brainslug on 20 April 2009

come on fellas, he's right - It's a solid plan. Casual video games players very frequently own multiple game consoles. You know, cause that's what "casual" means - players who spend as much time and money as possible on video games.

Right?