[QUOTE="AdmiralBison"][QUOTE="Menalque2"]
[QUOTE="AdmiralBison"]
Halo may not be considered casual. Is the majority of Xbox owners casual?
Halo is played by "hardcore" gamers really. It wouldn't have a dedicated following, nor MLG and other media -novels, films and spin offs to co-incide with it's story. When you think about Halo is simple and easy to get into but is hardly a "Casual" affair.
You should see the amount of hours, stats and talk people have on Halo. Nothing Casual about Halo.
The majority of gamers in general are casuals and the same goes for Xbox 360 owners. What more evidence of this do you need than the huge sales of Halo 3, Modern Warfare, GTAIV and Rock Band? Hell, what about the fact that Terminator Salvation outsold Bionic Commando? Xbox Live isn't some sort of self-contained bubble where only the hardest of the hardcore may enter.
Of course the majority of gamers are "Casual" but also those sales are made up of "Hardcore" as well. Thats's not the point.
W.O.W. Is that a casual game? What is the userbase on that beast? It's huge, does it mean the gamers are casual. They're extremely dedicated to it, as well as EverQuest, Sims, Starcradft.
Just because a game is bought in huge amounts is not neccessarily a casual affair or bought by "Casuals"
It's this straight line segregation between "Casual" and "Hardcore" once again that is the problem. "Casuals" and "Hardcore" are blurred and is only defined by the actual individual it seems.
How about KZ2 how many peole bought that game. 2 million. The game isn't "Hardcore" it's quite linear, fairly simple to play but not that many bought it.
How about PS3's then is it a hardocore machine? It seems more often it is seen as a 60% bluray player 40% games machine(exageration yes) but it seems to be used more casually as well as the lower game attach ratio.
so you havn' answered the question. Does this make the majority of Xbox owners casual then? The same can be said for Nintendo Wii and PS3s which include you and me.
It's been said everyone here in this forum is pretty much hardcore ???
So "Hardore" and "Casual" is not so fine cut.
. Sims. do you consider that casual but it is a very "Hardcore" affair. It's on PCs as well.
I always thought that PC players where the "Hardcore"
the sims is practically the definition of a casual game world of warcraft is very casual as well you cant have a hardcore machine yes, the majority of xbox owners are casual, that's a majority of just under 30 million i think maybe 10 or so million of them are core about the same amount of cores for wii, overshadowed by the casuals about 15 id guess for the ps3 (these are all estimates) most people on this forum are core being a pc gamer makes you no more hardcore
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