Topic: I don't get this.

The gaming community seems very hypocritical (both industry insiders and gamers).

"The Wii sucks cause it has a bunch of casual games."

"There isn't much of a market for core games on the Wii, so we won't support it."

And then you have this:

"The iPhone is dominating the market due to it's cheap games that are perfect for casual players."

"Nintendo needs to make smartphone games, who wants to pay $40 for a handheld game when the iPhone has cheaper alternatives?"

"Wii has too many casual games. Wii U had better go after the core gamer!"

So why do people think handhelds should only cater to casual gamers, while consoles should only cater to core gamers? Can't we have both? Why is it just one or the other? No wonder the industry is so fragmented.

Also, what is it that developers look for in a console? Graphics? Sales? Cause the Wii had the most sales, yet it got the least support.

May I ask who said these quotes?

It's stuff I pick up on when I read articles on Joystiq and GoNintendo. It seems people in the industry are divided on where it is heading.

On one hand, you have people who praise the iPhone for catering to casual gamers. On the other hand, you have people who ridicule the Wii for the very same thing, saying that the PS3/Xbox 360 are better cause they have more core games. The PSP had tons of core games, yet people chose the DS over it. So that's where I came up with my assumption that people prefer casual games on handhelds and people prefer core games on consoles.

Why is this? Why is the industry so divided?

The ones who say that are obviously either of very little intelligence or of very little experience in the gaming field. I apologise, but it just has to be said.

Let's just cut to their chase. The thing is, handhelds are the sort of pick-and-go consoles that people just pick up when they're unoccupied, so more 'gamers' are rather stuck in their proposition to buy those beep-bop-boop kinda casual stuff.

Whereas, when it comes to consoles, that's the big bang on the TV where you actually have the time to SIT and kill. So more people gravitate to the 'hardcore' stuff as it's more preferred looking at how it's used.

Basically, that's what I think of it. As you can probably notice, I'm using quite colloquially abnormal terms to explain my point - I'm sorry. I just woke up and need tea.

What I'm starting to not get, tendoboy1984, is why you've been starting brand new threads every time you want to discuss something lately, even when you created the original only a short while ago. Your original 'handheld gaming vs. smartphones' thread is here. Please use it to continue this discussion.