Topic: Ok guys read this article on IGN!

http://games.ign.com/articles/101/1019337p1.html
found this on IGN and it made me feel better about Nintendos hardcore audience! it talked about casual game sales going down, which means hardcore games coming soon! read it for yourself!

Sorry dude, someone already posted that a couple o days ago. Just tried to find it so as to link, but god knows where it is now. Good read though.

Mario platformers not doing it for the casual gamers? Why back in my day, gamers couldn't get enough of the Mario games and Contra was as hardcore as it got! Those were our first games and we never looked back.

Nintendo is shining and they haven't even played all their cards yet. Anyone else notice this?

And according to NPD (did I get that right?), software to hardware sales for the Wii are 6:1, so no, software sales are not lagging

Honestly, I think the writer is HOPING that Nintendo is focusing more on the "hardcore" audience. His facts are mostly wrong.

I was going to post this actually, Nintendo needs causual gamers or else they might have not been around today, or as popular. Casual gamers aren't obsessed with graphics, and Nintendo's prices are great compared to other companies. And also Nintendo doesn't even make half the casual games on the Wii and DS, from what I see its third party companies.
I think that most of you need to chill because genius takes time, the games will come when they are ready.

Yeah, this whole thing is a load of bullcrap. I can't believe he got paid to write that.

Paid.

Q : Whos game slaes rival Nintendo's this gen?

A:: No ones.

Q: Does Nintendo make hardcore or softcore games?

A : Nintendo makes Nintendo games.

he's praising project Natal. He's obviously an Xbox fanboy!!

I sorta agree with this article. Nintendo wants to make games for everyone, not just casual or hardcore gamers

I think he kinda missed the point at the start. I do agree that Natal created a nice buzz about the XBox 360 but it definitely remains to be seen if Microsoft can capitalise on that. I also don't think for one second that Nintendo really has any reason to be concerned about Natal.

He then mentions that Nintendo are trying to capture all audiences and have done so once with Mario Kart Wii... which is true. But then he goes on to suggest that their next attempt, New SMB Wii, is going to fall short because casual gamers don't buy Mario Platformers. He might be right I mean the DS version is only the second best selling DS game of all time. If he is right then Mario is certaintly not something Nintendo would bother to try and use to sell systems. Mario doesn't mean anything to the casual gamer afterall: http://nintendo.com.au/

I do agree with the end of the article but. I didn't buy the Wii for 360 games and after seeing that The Conduit and Madworld were the same old 360 games I didn't buy a 360 for my interest was gone. There is a reason why there was a heap of hype behind The Force Unleashed on Wii before it came out and its the same reason why there is a heap of hype behind Red Steel 2 now. I think most "core" Wii gamers want to try something different. It doesn't necessarily have to not be "hardcore" to interest a Wii gamer like myself, it just needs to have a clean look and be different. I think that was about the only thing the guy writing this article actually got.

Uh, thanks for making another topic about this article, dude.

This is kind of old dude.