Will the Wii pass the GCN in # of AAA titles?

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

theprof00 said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Frankly, all these terms, such as 'hardcore' and 'casual' or 'AAA' and 'top tier' seem to be just buzz words developed by both the internet forum goers and the reviewers who cater to them.  As they have all sprung up at different times over the course of the internets lifetime and gotten popular by those that frequent the internet.  At the start of last generation, terms like 'casual' and 'AAA' weren't very common.  But now people use them like they're second nature and you're stupid if you question their use, because everyone from reviewers to regular people outside of the internet are using them.

But mark my words, within a few more years, probably around the time we have the next set of consoles, we'll be using a whole new set of stupid buzz words to describe the same junk.

Eh, I've been using core and hardcore for a long time now. I've known the term at least 10 years or longer.

The interesting thing about your post is this first line:

"Frankly, all these terms, such as 'hardcore' and 'casual' or 'AAA' and 'top tier' seem to be just buzz words developed by both the internet forum goers and the reviewers who cater to them."

This group of internet forum-goers and the reviewers, isn't that us? Are we not the internet forum goers? I'm not trying to single you out, but that seems to be the argument that people have when they question the use of certain words. "Oh that's just something, people on the internet made up", but see here, we're ON the internet.

At least that's how it feels to me. The other problem with this whole argument of semantics, is that even if we settle a new word in this forum, nobody else will know about it. There will constantly be argument over what a word means. It's just so frustrating. Especially when there seem to be a lot of people online who are more than ready to turn semantics into a straw man argument.

I'm confused.  I'm not trying to throw up some excuse to argue against anything.  Just the opposite.  I'm advocating exactly for the argument that forum goers (like us) are the cause for all these terms for becoming popular.  All I'm adding to that is that we are also the predominant users and instigators of those terms.  Its not the avg. Joe on the street who is focusing on the terms like 'AAA' or 'Casual'.  We started it and we're the ones pushing it.  Online.

Its the internet that started these terms and made them what they are.  And someday in the future, we'll have yet more.