Nintendo gamers are not considered CORE gamers according to the NPD (Source included!)

[cyberninja45]

pokoko said:

cbarroso09 said:

that only says that the majority of Nintendo gamers are mature gamers. They have other more important things to do, like taking care of their families.
The expert gamers are the old gamers, they are not going to spend money on mediocre games. They choose the good games over the mainstream games. Of course they don't spend more time than others playing all those mediocre games.

I know you're probably just looking for an argument, but all I can really feel is bad for you.  I hope this helps you sleep.  I mean that.

On topic, different organizations have different definitions, but I don't really know how to explain this, unless they thought neither the Wii U or the Wii were relevant enough at the moment to be included.  By most definitions, the system doesn't matter.  When I worked with Microsoft, they included probable demographic numbers, and it included criteria such as "comfortable with technology" and they also listed favored genres, but it really just broke down to "gaming is an important hobby to them".

Also "core" is not the same as "hardcore" at all.  They are no more the same as "hat" and "hardhat".

So we should take the definitions for gamers from a company who has only been in the business for less than half the time than nintendo to define their customers, seems legit.

On a more serious and educational note, gamers are people who play video games, no core or casual non sense.