I am wondering if there's drugs going around or something? Nintendo isn't failing this generation; they've been doing better than any generation they have ever participated in during the past; and in fact any videogame company period.
There were no "Core gamers" during the NES, SNES, N64, and Gamecube eras, just a bunch of kids; it was parents that kept those systems afloat; and a small number of people who kept a Nintendo system around as a secondary console. Wii is the first system to break that trend and expand to a larger adult audience. It's not like Nintendo hasn't released their main franchises this generation, they've released almost all of them (or are going to) and made most of their old games available.
The labels "Core gamer" or "hardcore gamer" are just a title that PC type gamers made up so they can feel better about their losing system. Sorry, but it is a fact that Nintendo is WAY WAY ahead in both hardware and software sales and that PS3 is just a shadow of the PS2. There's nothing "hardcore" about sitting at home for 7 hours a day playing a reptetetive first person shooter while bulking up on pizza pops and doritos.
In other words, people who call themselves "core gamer" or "hardcore" are just pretentious nerds who want to justify their support of a losing system on the Internet.
If you're a Nintendo fan drinking that kool-ade: Stop being retarded.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
