Report: Casual Gaming Masking the Saturated Core Gamer Market
By Chris on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 at 10:10 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Games Industry, Microsoft, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo, Portable, Sony, Sony, Sony
A new report for IDG Research claims that the core gamer market is saturated, and that only the huge success of casual gaming is keeping things moving. Without more publishers embracing the casual gamer, IDG believes the industry could stagnate, reports MCV.
According to the report, Expansion of the games industry in recent years can be attributed largely to Nintendo with the Wii and DS. Citing facts like the overall market internationally having declined 7% when you don’t count the hardware and software sales of the Wii and DS. Apparently they didn’t consider that maybe people are buying Nintendo systems instead of the PS3 or 360.
“The middling performance of the 360, coupled with the PS3’s slow start has led IDG to the conclusion that the core gamer market is in fact saturated,” states the report.
“On a combined hardware and software basis, the global market grew by 21 per cent with the DS and the Wii in 2007, but declined by seven per cent without the two Nintendo platforms,” adds the IDG report. “In short, the balance of power has significantly shifted towards Nintendo.”
surely some people have just bought a nintendo wii instead of a ps3 or a 360, where they would if the wii did not exsist??
Clearly we must stop this problem at the root!
We will strike down Mario with the People’s Hammer!
Those who have taken from Microsoft, now they must be made to give free games!