First of all, "The research firm defined "core gamer" as anyone who plays five hours or more on Microsoft or Sony consoles, PC, or Mac, and plays in certain genres (action, adventure, fighting, flight, MMOs, racing, real-time strategy, RPGs, shooters, or sports games) on those platforms." Five hours or more... what? Five hours per day? Five hours per week? Five hours in their lifetime? This is a pretty big oversight...
Now that that's out of the way, I'm glad I now know that a 9-year-old who played Clash of Clans on his iPod for five hours is considered "hardcore" while that Japanese chick who played Monster Hunter Tri for 7,000 hours is a filthy casual. If only she had dumped just five of those hours into MH Portable Third for PSP or PS3 instead! Then she would have earn the coveted "hardcore" label!
(And this is why the use of such labels is 100% bullshit. They CANNOT be defined in any reasonable way. They are purely buzzwords.)
