| haxxiy said: I don't think the PS2 was a "hardcore" console... whatever that means. I mean, DVD player, easy piracy and all... The Wii-U was hardcore. Custom PC building is hardcore. Everything else? Eh... |
Yeah, I can't really believe the entire premise of this thread. And especially can't believe anyone believing in its assumptions. There are a plethora of threads here discussing what it means to be a "hardcore" gamer, and even those definitions barely hold up to scrutiny. Trying to claim an entire console to be "hardcore" is just ridiculous.
If I can read the thread in its proper definition I might say it seems the non-Nintendo market seems to be shrinking because that appears to be the only manufacturer left out of this definition, and even that seems to be a ridiculous notion. Console gaming is healthy on all ecosystems (even the XBoxOne's "failure" could be considered a success in several other generations), so to declare somehow that the sky is falling on some piece of that giant pie is bizarre.
