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A publicly accessible "Samsung Confidential" presentation Alan Queen, a senior director at the company's Innovation Lab, gave at last October's Samsung Developers Conference offers a bit of insight into the electronic giant's home console plans.P
Several slides on Queen's presentation indicate Samsung's gaming ambitions are targeting a consumer group called "Console Skeptics," who are current console owners not necessarily interested in upgrading to the next-generation consoles. Queen cites a September 2012 survey of more than 1,000 American "video game consumers," and claims 57 percent of those surveyed fell into the so-called "Console Skeptics," dwarfing the 42 percent divided evenly between the "Casual Gamers" and "Next-gen console buyers" segments. Queen believes Console Skeptics are "poorly served by consoles," listing the "cost of games" and "inconvenience" as impediments to console gaming for Console Skeptics.
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It's good that there are more gaming platforms for people to game on.
Making games for Console skeptics can be a good way for game makers to get more fans who want to play their games, but don't want to buy an expensive console to play a few games.
Several slides on Queen's presentation indicate Samsung's gaming ambitions are targeting a consumer group called "Console Skeptics," who are current console owners not necessarily interested in upgrading to the next-generation consoles. Queen cites a September 2012 survey of more than 1,000 American "video game consumers," and claims 57 percent of those surveyed fell into the so-called "Console Skeptics," dwarfing the 42 percent divided evenly between the "Casual Gamers" and "Next-gen console buyers" segments. Queen believes Console Skeptics are "poorly served by consoles," listing the "cost of games" and "inconvenience" as impediments to console gaming for Console Skeptics.
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It's good that there are more gaming platforms for people to game on.
Making games for Console skeptics can be a good way for game makers to get more fans who want to play their games, but don't want to buy an expensive console to play a few games.