The Wii may have earned a reputation as being the console of choice for casual gamers, but as Nintendo Europe's Laurent Fischer sees it, there's really no such thing.
As he sees it, there are simply those people who play games, and those who don't. Distinctions between "core" and "casual" players are nebulous and ultimately meaningless, he told CasualGaming.biz.
"You can spend time playing ten or twenty hours playing a Wii game [perhaps like WiiWare title Pop, pictured above] or Flash game on the 'net. The people who play all these games are core gamers. A 50 year-old woman who only plays Brain Training? She's still a gamer –- because she's playing like a core gamer," he explained.
Fischer doesn't like the "casual" label because the tendency is for people to equate "casual" with "easy." He stressed that it would be a mistake for developers to think that the so-called casual audience is any different from the core audience. "Someone can become a core gamer by playing any title," he said.
Nintendo Says "There Is No Casual Gaming" [CasualGaming.biz]
