What do you mean, “No Casual Gaming”??!!!

*tapping fingers and raising an eyebrow*

According to Laurent Fischer, managing director of marketing and PR at Nintendo of Europe, the concept of casual gaming is just plain absurd. He told CasualGaming.biz that its either you’re a gamer or not. Well, that’s true. But as to what TYPE of gamer, that’s where casual gaming comes in.

For years, gaming has been divided into two types of gamers, casual and core. The only difference is that core gaming is something you play for days at a time. While casual gamers can just pickup the game, play it for minutes or hours at a time, leave it and just go back whenever you want to.

What Mr. Fischer didn’t like about the term “casual” is that it denotes games that are easy, ergo, not challenging.

Its like telling that listeners of pop music is not as serious as those who listen to jazz or classical. Pop music may be more mainstream and easier to listen to and having an inclination to it doesn’t mean you’re of the lesser breed.

Same goes with gaming.

Anyone can be a harcore casual gamer, just like Mr. Mike’s girlfriend, or be a casual core gamer.

Nintendo may be hailed king of games, but their execs should get their views straight.  Or was this a kind of propaganda for a paradigm shift?

Image lifted from Nintendo.com