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Weekend Confirmed 78 - Gears of War 3, TGS '11
by Xav de Matos, Sep 16, 2011 12:00pm PDTWeekend Confirmed and the 8-4 Podcast have merged into one during the Tokyo Game Show once again! Garnett Lee and the crew at 8-4, Ltd.--behind such games as Shadow of the Damned--discuss their experience in Japan during TGS 2011. Then, Jeff Cannata and Xav de Matos take over from sunny, southern California and talk about Gears of War 3, the nefarious pricing structure of Crimson Alliance, and a handful of other games before ending it all with a few Twitter questions. The US segment was so quick that the WC Crew didn't even have time for Finishing Moves!
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 78: 09/09/2011
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Show Breakdown:
TGS - Live From Japan - Start: 00:00:08 End: 01:06:57
Whatcha' Been Playing - Start: 01:07:23 End: 01:34:59
The Warning - Start: 01:36:05 End: 02:07:48
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So I think, on the marketing side of the gaming industry, I bet 'core' and 'casual' categories mean a lot more than they do to gamers tossing the terms around on message boards.
For gamers, I think core gamers fancy themselves the taste-makers of the industry. They're the ones that are clued in about what games are good or not, and they're the centers of influence from which their more 'casual' gaming friends pick up recommendations, or see something cool.
CoD started off as a core franchise. It was core gamers that bought CoD4, played the shit out of it, and it was through them, over time, that a larger more mainstream audience that maybe buys one game a year decided 'hey, that's cool, I want to play that too'.
Core gamers can be fans of any genre, can put as much time in any number of games as they want. It's the knowledge and the passion for the games they love that seperate them from casual gamers, who could go on living quite happily if they were banned from ever playing a videogame again.
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