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One reason for the gap is that Microsoft won over 13- to 24-year-old hard-core gamers with the Xbox and a couple of blockbuster shooting franchises made exclusively for it: "Halo" and "Gears of War."


That line made me chuckle.

I remember when I was "hardcore".



I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.