[QUOTE="KinkInDaLink"][QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"][QUOTE="KinkInDaLink"] The UK is pretty hardcore, but there are also a lot of casuals who own wiis. GTA4 sold over a million here in it's first week, it's not like there is no demand for "hardcore" games. M$ would make a big mistake if it tryed to overly target casuals here, there entire user base is made up of the "harcore", all 2.5m of us. The main reason ninty has been dominating the charts recently is because there haven't been many 360 games released over the summer.
blue_hazy_basic
You must live in a different UK to the one i know :Pin what way? lol. Im just going on what the people i know own and play and what i sell when im at work at game.
On PC you have a very hardcore audience in the UK but on consoles the **** that people buys appalls me. Look at the UK chart every week, its abhorent. Not saying you don't have a hardcore group on consoles, it is however small and alot of the console players play FIFA, Tiger woods, GT (or collin mcrea in my day), GTA and Halo and not much else, you also have a large younger audience (singstar and those 'ing dance games)Check the charts when a "hardcore" game is released on a console, the numbers sold will be extremley high, these games fall off very quickly however because the "hardcore" buy the game on release, unlike casuals who will buy games whenever. Also the hardcore gamer in my expeirence is a lot more savy than the casuals that come in to buy games. If a game has been out a couple of weeks they will pick up a pre-owned copy, rather than new. "casuals" nearly always go for new for some reason. This phenomenom is something that doesn't affect the PC chart, due to the lack of pre-owned games.
If you had worked at some of the midnight launches i have, you wouldn't believe that console hardcore gamers don't exsist.
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