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The New York Times claimed today that "casual gamers" will drive sales for major game manufacturers this Christmas. Basically, they porport that the big sales will be in new players entering the gaming worlds of such smash hits as Guitar Hero III, Halo 3, World of Warcraft (my personal favorite), and scores more.
But I'm not sure I see any reason why this holiday season would produce substantially more sales than the last one. Do you? Does the NYT have its game on or no?
Oh, and did I mention that "I'm not an artard"? 
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United StatesI think Wii does need to be factored into the equation. Nintendo is out to prove that casual gamers will buy casual games, and even MS is following suit to some degree... though it's likely many of those casual games will be sold through XBOX live.
I do think the NYT is underestimating Halo 3, Bioshock and some of the other common genre games this holiday.
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Even Take-Two Interactive (game company that's brought us such titles as Grand Theft Auto) is teaming up with Nickalodean to form a new casual gaming division called 2K Gaming. There must be something to it.
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Also found this conflicting report (at least, seems to me) that mature (rated-M) game sales are significantly higher than teen (rated-T) or "everyone" games, which is where the vast majority of casual games fall.
This, combined with the fact that online gaming is seriously on the rise, doesn't bode well for the original prediction about the "noob's" role in sales this Christmas.
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