WereKitten on 05 April 2009
^good post. Except for the "hardcore" presence in the core Nintendo market, that I think is quite strong. But that's because, as you said, its definition is quite fuzzy.
Basically "hardcore" is not only orthogonal to consoles, but also to game genres. As such I think that there's plenty of "hardcore" players of Melee among core Nintendo market , that would not touch Madworld with a ten foot pole because if its mature, over the top characterization. And so on.
It's probably true that historically the Nintendo core market was born in the general absence of mature-themed games, so I'd rather say that it's the mature genre lovers that are underrepresented.
