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The Wii's Threat to the Hardcore

  •  Dont worry maam - i'm from the internet (none / 0)

    i think you are a bit paranoid that with wii's success, developers/publishers will not focus that much on hardcore gamers, instead they will put their money on the new found land of wii players, which are mostly non-hardcore gamers.

    One thing is for sure, hardcore players are abandoning wii, so making more Zelda:TW like games doesnt make a lot of sense. This means the market is getting divided pretty fast and there is going be hardcore gamers with their PC/PS3/360 on one side(group A) and a lot of non-gamers or new addicts on the wii side(group B). We should see a good flow of players from group B to A but not the other way round.

    This does validate your argument that a lot of money is going to go into a section which hardcore gamers dont care about but in the long run the flow of gamers to hardcore side will make up for the losses. Otherwise its just too hard to get non-gamers to pickup a $500 console and get pwn'ed all over the world. it doesnt work, i've tried.

    by naveeda on Thu Jun 07, 2007 at 07:27:12 PM EST

    •  wha? (none / 0)

      "One thing is for sure, hardcore players are abandoning wii"

      Where are you getting this statistic, and how do you define hardcore?

      by bustin98 on Thu Jun 07, 2007 at 07:35:12 PM EST

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      •  definition (none / 0)

        Hardcore Gamers are folks who spent most of there free time in playing/reading/writing/discussing about games. They also spend a lot of time competing or showing mastery of their gaming skill. In lot of ways they treat video gaming as normal sports.

        Now how do i know hardcore gamers are abandoning wii? ok may be i'll write about that some other time. In the meanwhile think about what the aforementioned folks have on wii to stick around given that they do have a 360/ps3/pc loaded (by comparison) with things they want to play.

        by naveeda on Fri Jun 08, 2007 at 12:18:17 AM EST

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