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By Taahir on 13 Jul, 2010: published about 6 years ago
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Sony Won’t Neglect Hardcore Audience

Sony Won’t Neglect Hardcore Audience

Kazuo Hirai, SCEI Big Cheese, has said that although Sony is starting to tap into more casual territory with the PS3 after nearly four years, the firm isn’t about to neglect its hardcore gaming audience.

Sony’s latest venture the PlayStation Move will hit the shelves this September and will be compatible with a number of “hardcore” titles such as SOCOM 4, Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition, LittleBigPlanet 2, and 2011’s eagerly awaited Killzone 3. However, the new device also aims to attract more casual audiences with family friendly offerings, including Move Party.

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    Speaking during an interview Hirai commented:

    “We’ve always believed that whatever it is we’re doing, it’s something that appeals to our core gaming audience first and foremost.”

    “Then, depending where we are in the lifecycle of the product, how much we need to appeal to the casual and family gaming market varies. When we first launched the PS3 three four ago, the games that were launched along with it were tailored more towards the hard-core gaming audience.”

    “Four years into it, we’re still not mid-cycle, but given the base growth we’ve seen – there are upwards of 36 million PS3 consoles sold worldwide right now – we are starting to tap into the casual and light gaming users,” added Hirai.

    “But we want to make sure that we have software that appeals those gamers without neglecting the hardcore gaming audience who have always been the real diehard supporters of PS3. That’s the balance we struck in our [E3] keynote press briefing, I think.”

    Goodman. Carry on what you are doing.

    [Source: PSU]

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    • Nexorsist

      Shame… Xbox and PS3 is going to totally bankrupt the Wii. Nintendo always hesitates too long to expand on a niche and continually innovate their unique product offerings.

    • A-G Sonday

      You weren’t expecting them to try and make a living off causal gamers were you?
      Whether you want to admit it or not, we are all addicted and they can get us our fix. You can’t run a bloodsucking multinational corporation off sunshine and hugs. You need to feed off the soul’s of those who are so far down the rabbit hole you’ve created that they don’t even know day it is.

      M0fla: /\ \/ /\ (you figure it out)

    • M0fla

      I’m guessing it’s regarding the picture? I will use that picture forever! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :twisted:

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