Now that consoles are getting even cheaper, and games are becoming more and more attractive to average people and are getting easier and easier to learn how to play, the average person will play them a lot more which has been shown over the recent years. For example, the game angry birds, it is very simple yet a very enjoyable game to play for most casual gamer's to play. It is also free, so most people who have either an iPhone, iPod or Android etc will most probably have this game. This could mean casual gamer's are now much more common than they were before. A good reason why their are more and more casual gamer's is because not everybody can afford all the consoles that are out today such as the Play Station 3 or the Xbox 360. So the first chance these 'casual gamer's get to download games on their phone's or iPod's they will as the majority of them are all very, very cheap or even free! This could mean that if everybody finds away to play all the new latest games on their phone's, iPod's or iPad's etc, then all Gamer's that usually use the Xbox or Play-station 3 will not buy the next one as they will not need to and it will save them a lot of money.
Casual gamer's may also be taking over because on the Wii people find games such as Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero, and similar games such as Wii Sports, very simple. They involve rhythmic or timed movement, and anyone can learn them. They can be played competitively which new casual gamer's may find fun and exciting. So the more simple game's coming out, the more casual gamer's their will be as they will not be to hard to play but just easy enough for everybody to know how to play them.
Next, i do also think they are taking over because all these people who do not have time to play game's like these 'hardcore' gamer's will find these new simple games such as angry birds as i have mentioned earlier a great way to pass the time and want to start trying all different games. This is good for new company's as it is a great way of making more money if they make a simple game or app for these casual gamer's to play. This is because if the game is very good and easy to play then every casual gamer will possible buy it as they may have that bit of free time to play it.
I do also think that quite a few casual gamer's will eventually turn into hardcore gamer's as they may take a very great interest in these games and may want to start playing more and more games.
On the other hand, I do not think that casual gamer's will last forever. I believe this because the new generation of people may not be the same and if all these little games such as 'temple run' or 'wii fit' start becoming very expensive, people who can't afford them may stop buying them and eventually, these companies will loose a whole market of people and the generation will be put off playing all the games because they are not very affordable and people will have a strong opinion on them and think they are all to expensive and maybe a waste of time. So if these companies start loosing to much money and make no profits, they will not have enough money to create any new games to sell as nobody is buying off them.
Another reason i believe casual gamer's aren't taking over because people may generally just loose interest of them as they may start to get bored and think that they have had their fun playing them but may think its time to stop. But i don't know, everybody has their own opinion?
Overall, by discussing both sides of the picture, I do believe that not all these 'casual gamer's' will always be casual gamer's because they might just get bored of playing and just stop. Yes, fair enough their are millions of new casual gamer's as its the new thing to be nowadays but not everyone will stay as casual gamer's. But again on the other hand people may stay as casual gamer's or even become hardcore gamer's, we cannot predict the future of what will happen, but their are that many casual gamer's in the world now that eventually it might stay like this.
Lastly, my opinion is that Casual Gamer's will take over for good as it is a cheaper and easier way of gaming which everyone in this generation of gaming have all been looking for.
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