Ben Gilbert: recommendation

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…Ah yes, the console itself. Exactly. This is where we should talk a little bit about the different segments of games because it's starting to become important. I think this will help us understand Nintendo today. The Wii really starts to lay the groundwork for understanding what their position is today. We have three people to thank for conversations that we had leading up to this. Nick Fajt from Rec Room, longtime friend of the show, and some games industry veterans, the creators of Xbox Live Arcade, John David and Greg Canessa, for going down memory lane with us and helping us to understand the way that this landscape looks. There are many segments of games, but it's worth breaking it down to three. There's casual, mid-core in the middle, and then there's a core gaming audience. Casual games are what we've been talking about that have a broad appeal that you can pick it up and play. It's a quick in and out. It takes you minutes to understand, but hours to master. It's Tetris, it's Brain Age, it's Wii Tennis.…

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