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Struggling To Bridge the Casual-Hardcore Game Gap 185

Posted by Soulskill
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With the advent of the Wii and the upcoming motion control systems from Sony and Microsoft, console makers are expanding the gaming population to include vast numbers of casual players. Their problem now, according to this editorial at Eurogamer, is that there doesn't exist a broad selection of games between the simple, introductory titles and the complex, hardcore ones, which tends to limit how deep new players will venture into the gaming ecosystem. Quoting: "... it needs software that spans the gap between the two camps of offerings which are emerging on Xbox 360 — games that encourage players of Dance Central or Your Shape to move upstream and explore. It's unlikely, perhaps, that they'll ever end up curb-stomping crinkle-faced nasties in Cliff Bleszinski's latest, but we're a long way past the point of the Xbox being all about shooting and driving, even if the public perception hasn't quite moved with the software line-up. The long-term challenge for the games market must, ultimately, be to emulate the success which other mediums have had in creating markets where consumers routinely and happily move between genres, and where franchises which would be pigeonholed as 'hardcore' in the games world nestle comfortably in people's DVD collections alongside those which would be dismissed as 'casual.'"
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Struggling To Bridge the Casual-Hardcore Game Gap

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  • by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 20 2010, @04:26PM (#32634372)

    I was at E3. All of the Kinect demos were hands on. Almost all of them are about detecting hand motions (for steering, shooting, dancing, everything). In fact, most detected hand motions and FOOT motions of TWO people simultaneously.

    It works. None of it is fake. I played the damn thing. So did 40,000 other people this week, and the only complaint anyone had is that it's slightly laggy (possibly due to immature software, who knows). OP is completely wrong on all counts of his post. I have no idea why OP posted this, or WORSE, how OP got modded up.

    Posting as Anon because I don't need to be downmodded to oblivion for telling the truth instead of spewing bullshit. It's not fake - I played the damn thing. It's coming out in just a couple of months FFS!

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