I love the "disconnect from reality" thread coming from a poster with Donald Trump as his (her?) avatar.

Are you an older gamer? It seems like a generational thing because back in the 80's and 90's, alot of people who played games like 007 also played Madden etc. Sports games were in most people's library back then, sitting along side Sonic, Metal Gear and Metroid. It really wasn't until the start of the 7th generation where we saw this emerging divide where people were either sports gamers or non-sports gamers. It's odd to me because I have always liked every type of game.

Because a lot of people here were raised with Nintendo so they tend to have a skewed vision of gaming today.

33 so yes older. i have always loved sport games and fps.

what got me into fps was duke, doom and quake, but what got me totally hooked was starseige tribes.  Tribes (with the community mods) is basically to me like the predecessor to Halo. hats why when i saw Halo i never really felt the need to play it as much as other people did. Then it was quake 3 and UT.

When I got older and time got limited, i played less FPS and focus more on sports games and other genres. I still like FPS, but with liited time its more fun sitting and talking to a friends and playing it in the same room (kind of like the old N64 007 days). This way we all are equally distracted and jsut having a bit of fun without it being too hardcore when you had time to perfect your craft.

I dont think its that different at least in terms of the big 3. Nintendo still has a decent following, this site is one of the more pro Nintendo sites ive been on. Even when Sony was at its worse it still had its fan here. Now Xbox, the reality is its really not that popular, especially on a WW scale it doesnt touch Ninty or PS

Edit: Hell even at Xbox's most popular they werent that much fans here, even less so now

So there are 3x as much (active?) Xbox gamers than PC gamers "in reality"?

Wow, didn't know that there are more than 600 million Xbox gamers worldwide. You live and learn.

That's kind of backwards logic. People can be passionate about FIFA, but the general FIFA audience isn't. People can be passionate about COD, but the general COD audience isn't. FIFA sell mainly to sports fans, just like Gran Turismo sold mainly to teenagers that wanted to drive/tune a cool car.

Being passionate and being a hardcore gamer are two different things. I consider myself being passionate about gaming, but really can't consider myself a hardcore gamer, as the hardcore gamer isn't that passionate about gaming, but about the hype that precedes the game release.

What's so funny in it?

Back in the day the licensed games were considered crap, which made the Rare Goldeneye more of an oddball. Anyway, the market have changed a lot from 80's and 90's, as back then your games library may have had as many genres as you had games, whereas today it's not uncommon that people have games only in one or two genres. Back then you might have bought one FIFA for your system, while today people are buying every yearly edition, and the same thing with shooters, where you had one or two of them on your system, while today you have people buying all the yearly sequels to a franchise (and not other games). And, this is the core audience of the games were talking about.

Because we are not the average gamer. Average gamer comes home from work plays an hour, then maybe goes to bed.

That's because of long days at work.