The only thing that makes Gears of War or God of War more hardcore is there is a more limited audience for those games. A more mature, and by mature I mean older audience. These games are amazing games and worthy of AAA status but at the same time they are only bought by the older, 15-25 age audience while the MK Wii and NSMB Wii games are bought by the same audience yet also the 8-14 and 25+ audience because of the broad appeal and fun the games present to the consumer.
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