Nintendo: "There is no casual gaming"

[Shrygue]

via Computer and Video Games


Nintendo Europe's senior marketing director Laurent Fischer says the casual gamer is a myth and that there are only people who play games and people who don't.

"For me, you are a gamer or non-gamer," he told CVG at Nintendo's German HQ yesterday. "I think most of you know that you can spend ten or twenty hours on an internet flash game and have not realised. The guy who plays these games regularly - he's a core gamer."

But what about Brain Training, we hear you scream? And we really did hear that. "Someone who is fifty-years old who only plays Brain Training, but plays it like a core gamer is a core gamer," Fischer added.

"I don't like this word casual so much. Because people consider that casual needs to be something easy. If you're good at any game you can play at a high difficulty level.

"Take Tetris. There is incredible gameplay, it's very simple, very easy to understand, but it's also very different. I think a game can be a light enough to enjoy and for all gamers to become a core gamer on it."

Fischer concluded: "There is no casual gaming. There is just a different way to play." Look out for more from Fischer later on today.

[vicious1988]

I used to be a die hard gamer. That was all I'd do in my free time. Now I'm lucky to have a 1:1 kd ratio on games like CS.

[goity]

Nintendo: we'll sell our shovelware to anyone!

[mcdougall57]

I suppose nintendo's the culprit for creating these so called "casual gamers" I didn't remember my grandma or mother playing games until ones like brain training and wii fit came out.

[vicious1988]

My parents play Wii Sports' golf. And that's it.

[ICE]

Nintendo: we'll sell our shovelware to anyone!

Someone's a tad uninformed.

[Fredgoobus]

Flflfl... I'm tired of Casual vs Hardcore. Even in this sense.

[masterchief929]

i agree, either ur a gamer or not.

[R4mbo]

What? He cant say there are no Casual Gamers... "CASUAL GAMERS" is a word invented by us, the gamers, it describes people which dont have the time or lust to play as long as hardcore gamers. You can not say Gamer = Gamer.. there are different types.. there are gamers which play only 1 game, or 1 videoconsole (like the Wii and Wiisports or Wiifit, old people, women, whatever) and there are gamers which have nearly every videogameconsole released with nearly every game... you cant say these 2 are the same X_X

[Shadowblind]

Theres no casual gamers? Then explain 14 million of the sales.