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Microsoft's Xbox 360 user base is filled comfortably with hardcore gamers, but it is clear the firm wants to expand its appeal to casual audiences. In explaining that, the company's European boss has inferred that, unlike the Wii, the Xbox 360 will be used all year round.
In a comment that is obviously meant as a cheeky little dig at Nintendos strategy with the Wii (and one that Microsoft is actually hoping to emulate with the Xbox 360), the firms European boss Chris Lewis has stated that he doesnt want the Xbox 360 to become something that only gets yanked out of a cupboard at Christmas.
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anyway, i`m sure he's just mad because Wii is outselling his system by a shitload and the PS3 is catching on.
Nintendo needs to release some really good looking hardcore games to counter this casual attack.
"Nintendo needs to release some really good looking hardcore games to counter this casual attack."
Statement refers to future tense, that the company and partners should release titles more suiting to an audience based on more "hardcore" games. Indicating that while there are some appealing titles, there need to be more mainstream franchise ideas coming in.
"Yeah and top sellers like WiiPlay and Carnival Games are sure going to help their image in the eyes of hardcore gamers huh?"
Refering to previously released titles, one of which wasn't even produced by Nintendo. Then attempting to play previously released games as said future titles that the other person was saying needed to be released.
It'd help if you could you know, actually stay with the time frame of the other person when you're trying to bash someone. Instead of going "LOL DINOWARS WAS SO HARDCORE ON THE NES LOL" and looking sad in the process.
Really, try to be a little less pathetic when you troll.
That which is popular determines the future when it comes to video games. If casual shithouses like WiiPlay (which was the number one selling software title for the Wii since it's launch, usurped only by Brawl), then that pretty much shows developers where the money is at.
Try to be a little less pathetic and read between the lines.
Is the main post talking about Wii-Play, Wii-Sports, Carnival games, and every other party title around? Nope. Not one bit, the author is actually asking for more alternate titles to step in. As such your statement of "Well because Wii-Play is popular nothing else will ever come" is wasted if not ignorant. Did you think it was something new to claim that publishers bleed popular ideas dry? That somehow we didn't already know that cloning is a staple of game publishing these days when it's been going on for over 10 years?
To claim that you foresee the future of titles is a bit amusing, you give yourself too much credit seeing as you can barely post on topic as is and you can't come up with something new to state about the industry as a whole, instead you attempt to assume that no one can see the obvious and then you state it hoping for some shred of credibility.
Your idea is flawed though. That which is popular acts as a constant alongside the rest of a lineup, nothing says that a publishing house will only specialize in that line unless you're dealing with a closed house like Square-Enix where everything is RPG. Yeah the money is in an area but if an area is saturated it means that they'll be stepping out for something new. Odd that in a quick check of EB, out of the coming titles only one of them could be called a clone (Summer Sports: Paradise Island) and that's by an outside house from the normal group.
It's ok that you're not original and really don't offer anything worthwhile to read Sereph. Your preaching was full of holes and fell flat on itself. Next time you can try to you know, come up with something that hasn't been beaten to death for a few decades.
Hell, NOA President Reggie Fils-Aime owns an Xbox 360 and has played the entire Halo trilogy and I heard that straight from the horse's mouth.
I wanted a game that would last like Zelda - I got over 2k skill on Tennis but when I got my 360 it took second best and was put under my bed only getting taken out when my friends wanted to have a shot at it and at Christmas.
I'm so glad I sold it.
Wii - Focuses on Casual gamers
360 - Focuses on more dedicated gamers...plus a few casual arcade games too
That's what both PS3 and 360 are trying to do to lure in casual gamers.
Edit: I'm laughing at the 360 fanboys who raise Sereph up in the air like a god and put down anyone else who disagrees with him. How mature.
Kind of like Xbox fans hold up halo, kind of like PS3 fans hold up mgs, kind of like Wii fans hold up galaxy, kind of like xbox fans hold up GoW, kind of like how PS3 fans hold up Killzone 2, kind of like how Wii fans hold up Metroid... etc etc etc
Oh the inventiveness or lack there of. Further is you trying to derail it by removing a persons topic from complaining about a person to complaining about how games are praised on individual consoles. GG maybe you can try to establish clarity in some decade.
Will the wii be removed once a year from the cabinet? doubt it. Will the hype die down? possibly. Does anyway really care about some random guys opinion? Nope
The first comment deals with asking why fanboys might be holding a fanboy up
Your attempt to return is asking why fanboys hold a game up.
It doesn't address the asking, it just tries to dodge the comment and ask why people like games to any extreme instead of why fans love even more vocal fans.
I do agree though, nothing is dying down anytime soon, plus with everyone battling each other it makes the companies shove out better products in the end for consumers. (although sometimes with annoying constant delays -_-)
OH NOES! ITS NOT CHRISTMAS!
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