Megadude
You thought wrong, it's not your fault though, many forum goers believe the same thing, core was just a term used to represent hindsight estimates on sales for specific titles, essentially a means to quantify and solute a demographic.
That's the reason you can understand clearly that the demographic involved in using Gears or Halo were predominantly men or boys, I believe it was 15-35 or something like that.
People started thinking hardcore meant core and so when a blog journalist asks about core they seem to use it interchangeably with hardcore for the sake of confusion. (Blame the media heh)
Reality is that people do not go by demography however, they go by perceived value which can't be quantified using the same algorithms.
For the sake of clarity and risking sounding like a broken record:
Hardcore is more normally used and understood to refer to gamers who understand gaming and hardcore games are games easily understood as a game.
The only problem with the above definition is that a person who plays The Conduit may not see Wii fit as a game, while the person who plays Wii fit may not see The Conduit as a game.
But here I am teaching something I guess... sucks for me.
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