Console gaming is bending over backwards to the casual market

Console gaming is bending over backwards to the casual market The signs are all around us. World of Warcraft recently touted they've reached a subscriber base of over 12 million. Xbox Live claims over 20 million subscribers. Social media add-on Mafia Wars? Over 21 million unique users a month. Mafia Wars developer and scourge of the ‘Hardcore Gamer”, Zynga, boasts over 65 million players a day amongst their family of Farmville, Vampire Wars, Café World, and more.

We’ve all started to finally become numb to our friends’ and families’ Facebook games antics, and I can bore you with listing the efforts of Disney and Nickelodeon and other major media outlets digging into casual markets, but none of that is news to anybody. The real proof of Casual’s domination can be found attached to the television in your living room.

Console gaming is bending over backwards to the casual market, they just don’t want to come right out and say it. After all, it’s been the Core Gamers supporting the industry for decades, and no one Tagrs wants to alienate them. But the swing towards the Casual is undeniable.