Yeah.  I just noticed this.  Your doing?  I liked the original better.

What if you play on your phone or PC, but almost exclusively emulate Nintendo games.

That's understandable.  I just helps to see into the mind of the OP. 

I'm not disconnected from reality.... I love living in Hyrule.

The OP is discounting Nintendo fans that play primarily 3DS, which is still a larger user base than PS4.

There's also some history to the user base on this site.

- Last gen Xbox 360 and Wii were super strong and there were plenty of fans from all sides here. This gen Xbox One is behind PS4 on power and games, and this really reduced Xbox fan participation. There's been little to be hyped about on Xbox.

- Wii U has been a disaster, but the core Nintendo gamers on this site remained pretty hyped about the Wii U exclusive games, and also have 3DS to follow. The Switch also created new hype. Also an observation: the Nintendo gamer on this site cares more about loyalty to Nintendo hardware than PS & Xbox users are to their hardware. For example the dude who says he'd be excited to play GTA V on Switch... a game that could have been played for years and in better form on all the other platforms.

You do realize Pop music is just short for Popular music. It also isn't a real genre since Pop musc can come from any genre of music. Like Flo Rida is considered a Pop artist because he has a lot of hit songs but he's really just a rapper. Same as Pitbull. Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake are R&B artists.

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I wouldn't call someone who likes CoD or yearly sports games a casual as a lot of them spend more money and time playing games than most "hardcore" gamers. I've been on this site for years and I've noticed some gamers will hype a game up for months prior to release and when it finally releases they don't even buy it. Yet they will make posts and dispute the metacritic scores for that game versus a game from a competing console. To me that is more of a casual since you're not really playing the games. I would call someone who can tell you the hundreds of differences between the last six Madden games a hardcore gamer. I know guys that spend hundreds of dollars on VC for NBA 2K games every year and also spend thousands on the MYNBA2K companion app. I wouldn't consider those guys casual gamers in the least. 

This forum has people that will buy every new Tales of game, Final Fantasy, Persona, Fire Emblem etc. We call them real/hardcore gamers but then turn our noses up at those that purchase every new CoD, Madden, 2k, GTA, etc. and call them casual. That's just the nature of this particular site. Most here are comfortable with things that way so that's how it will stay.

As I said there are different levels of involvement in every community. You could say that about every game. Plenty of people play games like Mass Effect but are not passionate about them. Again my point here was that this reasoning of "Fifa/ Call of Duty general audience is not passionate, but we are" comes from a sense of wanting to feel superior, and wanting to satisfy our own egos. That we somehow are better than the general audience of gamers. I would argue that is a somewhat short sighted view, and failing to see outside of our own bubble.

Hardcore gamer is usually associated with simply gaming being their primary hobby, and spending lots of time on it. So I would define hardcore gamer simply as someone that is passionate about games. I fail to see how being hyped for games would make you a hardcore gamer, as most "casual gamers" will be hyped for new Call of Duty/ Battlefield/ Fifa/ Grand Theft Auto, etc. Either way, it's just a discussion about semantics, and I meant people that are passionate about games, so I can avoid using the term "hardcore gamer" if it causes confusion for you. 

I completely agree on this as far as yearly titles go. Again I will repeat what I have said before on this thread, is that all of us want to feel like the way we are playing games, is somehow superior to those who are passionate about sports games or shooters, or any genre/game we don't play. It is simply natural to want to satisfy our egos and, it is very much a subconscious process we don't actively have as much control over.

I believe it simply comes down to being involved with video games, and how passionate you are about them, regardless of what games you play. And it can be difficult to judge how passionate other communities are if you are not part of them, and often results in looking at them in a more negative light, because of intergroup bias.

Edit: If a person spends 600 hours on an RPG, or 600 hours on Fifa, I would argue they are just as passionate about their game.

I think if you go to any gaming forum on the planet you would notice the same thing.

Casuals don't bother with gaming forums. More so a sales website.

I find that the casuals I know basically have FIFA consoles. In most cases they don't even know about 80% of the games I am interested in.

Casuals spending more on those yearly titles or the odd GTA game doesn't make them not casuals.

Think  of it this way, casuals are primarily why games like COD sell so much. Gamers like us that you will find on forums is why games like Dark souls, Ni-Oh....etc can evn exist.

No we do not represent "gamers nor does the majority represent them, why because the majority isn't some ubiquitous entity , it changes over time and depending on what section you are looking at

 What we do have here is not some authoritive body that dictates what is or isn't canon in the world of games, but simply a group of gamers who's knowledge of gaming and sales is above the norm , and like all hobbiest's we like having a platform to discuss our hobby.