because it has HARDCORE in it

Hardcore all the way, not saying there is anything wrong with casual games, i love playing them with my family.

I preferre a hardcore machine like my ps3 and pc, but also I cudnt live without my Nintendo fix :) Mario kart is just awesome with friends

*Plays Angry Birds on iPhone*
*Plays Battlefield 3*
...
*Puts down iPhone*

Casual games are basically the lowest common denominator in our prefered medium. That's why they'll never kill off proper gaming.

In this case i'm referring to Phone and Social games.

Once gaming went mainstream....the end had begun.

Yep, cod has ruined shooters.

It does kinda irritate me when games like Just Dance 3 are higher up than Dark souls and Uncharted 3 in the charts. Just seems wrong...

Good article. Anyone who believes phones will eventually displace dedicated handhelds should read it, because that's the new "casual will oust hardcore" myth.

Well... it looks like it's time for another episode of Grammar Nazi. Everyone's favorite. Today's grammar/punctuation mishap we call into question, is the actual headline. How is that heading even a question? It's a statement. The real heading should look like, "Why didn't casual games kill hardcore gaming?" And that's it for today's episode...

Megatron, I wondered the same thing and I wrote this article for gamersbliss.com. I don't know why the question mark is there.

Thanks for all of your responses. I wanted to state that the differences in what I saw in the two types of games, both "casual" and "core", are differences in priority. Both types of titles require many or all of the qualities listed, but casual and core games need the ones listed for them most of all or the games do not work.

A few of you talked of how casual games corrupted the core games. A few more said that casual games contain core elements. Both of you are right. It's part of the changing lanscape of games. Right now games need a wide market to survive. In time, when t.v. can start showing professional gaming tournaments, the skill factor will return with full force.

Seriously, this gen got really annoying with the amount of fanboys and elitists who have nothing to be elite about. I really hope next gen isn't this bad...

Just by looking at the picture implying that uncharted is "hardcore"...

Makes me want to punch somebody.

Defining hardcore gaming and casual gaming.

Hardcore gaming is when you spend long hours playing games example some people spend long hours playing skyrim, while casual gaming is when you just play a game to pass some time example being on the bus and playing angry birds to have a little fun to pass the time until you reach your destination. Now i see some people trying to give hardcore gaming and casual gaming a new meaning, they say hardcore games are games that are gory yes with lots of blood and violence, while they say casual gaming is games that are easy and has little to no blood and violence in it. I will put uncharted as an example of how they are flawed uncharted is a easy game to play (for me i don't know about you) but because it has violence in it they call it hardcore but by their definition it would fall under casual. Under the real meaning of hardcore gaming uncharted is a hardcore game because it is a game that needs long hour to progress. People say COD is casual, that is kinda true since most people just go online to pass some time killing people.

About this article it is not credible and a bit biased showing the wii as casual and uncharted as hardcore when most wii games under the real definition of hardcore gaming are hardcore games i can't beat Mario galaxy in 2 hrs o.o. I do not like where the industry is going as only seeing game with violence as hardcore and others as casual. What do you think?

You know what I'd like to see.

A real tactical/valid FPS but with a bit of updated mechanics. Something like this.

1. Real money tradiing. A fully functional game economy. Built around the premise of governments/business's selling players, weapons, upgrades etc.

2. Tournaments: Meaningful not this crap they have now. Example. You get a txt via, say phone or email. Okay your part of a team so you log unto the game and your greeted by your handler who tells you your mission objective. Say to assassinate someone. Your going to need a diversion, a spotter, sniper. prob even a contingency plan.

Or there is a tank squad rampaging a village. Your job is to stop it. Now keep in mind the missions are dynamic in nature.

You can in fact die, so no running and gunning spawn fest. Dying in this game warrants a serious penalty. Team work is stressed. You dont level up so quickly, but you do get great perks.

3. Perks: ever perk you pick means something. every choice is substantial. Guns, camo, heavy armor it all means something. This would be a lively world like second life, psn home, wow, meaning its persistent. It integrates with facebook, phones, email, etc.

You actually win real money from your playtime. Whether through bets via team bets, bets on the team, tournaments etc.

This is an FPS, not not a ginger bread one where you can just run in and expect to dominate. You want to win $ 10,000 then your gonna work for it.

You put up your money up front. Their are tournament ladders, say every hour or so ppl play. Different tournaments and ladders within those tournaments. 1, 2, 5, 10 man teams.

This is quite a topic...

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau