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It began with the Wii, nay it actually began with the Sony PlayStation , the birth of casual gaming , when [jilted] mass brand managers Sony , sought to apply their business models to the video game industry . In a twirl of a CD drive , Sony swept away the uber kudos of the era of core gamers with their Snes/Genesis , Arcade Games [ that required an Arcade!] and the self monickered l33t PC /Mac/ computer geek gaming generation .
It has continued with the Xbox ,360 , Wii ,PS2 and PS3. The casuals now walk amongst us indistinguishable from the normal gamer...They are the normal gamer........They...are us ....
It has continued with iOS and Android mobile touch , and Social Network facebook gaming swiping aside the core PSP and even shaking the knees of the Nintendo DS execs....
The Casual gaming tsunami is now coming to its conclusion with Move and more significantly Kinect.
By your command :
Long after the last core game has finished spinning in your machine , or been played through in 5 hours on its hardest setting THIS year you will be hopping around your TV in your finest Lycra , or you will be turning down the lights to see which wonderful colour your PlayStation move light sabre decides to change into next... you may even ...even get out the old Wii weighing thing .. or just opt for swiping away at your iOS and or Android device of choice
You too have been swept under the Casual gaming Tsunami .... this is the Future .... Tom Cruise foresaw it in Minority report , though its less grey and morbid!
There is no escape you see because our coding heroes , the ones responsible for the core games that have fuelled the gaming industry and core gamers for almost 30 years, well they are all going to be jumping around their living rooms too , but not because they have been swept under the Casual Kinect/Move/iOS/ Android gaming Tsunami , no , because their code houses are about to go under , when casual dancing in lycra game X outsells EVERY core game release put together , you know where the money will be going next year , and it wont be to fund a 200 strong group of elite coders to churn out the bloated sequel to last years underselling bloated sequel to last years underselling bloated sequel ....
This casual gaming tsunami ends an era where core gaming drove the market , the last time gaming got this mainstream was at the height of Atari's reign , right before the industry collapsed and they say to this day you can still find console games buried in USA deserts ...so core games fans don't be frightened all of this has happened before and all this will happen again ..... just have to go with the lycra for a while ....
This casual gaming tsunami ends an era where core gaming drove the market , the last time gaming got this mainstream was at the height of Atari's reign , right before the industry collapsed and they say to this day you can still find console games buried in USA deserts ...so core games fans don't be frightened all of this has happened before and all this will happen again ..... just have to go with the lycra for a while ....
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