What a stupid pointless crock of poo this whole tedious argument has become. If it’s important to feel you are a hardcore gamer, OK I declare you a hardcore gamer. You want to be casual, OK you can be casual. You want to be a prune Danish, OK you’re a prune Danish. All human activity that involves a lot of people will be a continuum of interest and talents. Where do you draw the line. Most people will draw a line just behind where they are standing. When I was a teenager, 30 sounded old. When I was 30, 50 sounded old and I knew that 30 wasn’t. Now, 50 seems young. So wherever you draw the line there will be people less intense than you who consider themselves hardcore; and people on the other side that consider you too casual.
Insisting on labeling people is never useful and always turns out to be divisive and leads to alienation. If you don’t think a particular console has games you like, buy a different one. Nothing in that exercise requires you to call people on the other system derisive names.
Besides, the Wii is almost half the market and almost double any other platform. The Wii will soon be drowning in games of every genre. And now that some game developers have found out that Miyamoto was correct when he said third parties would never be able to compete as long as they assigned third and fourth string talent, because Nintendo used only their first string; we are starting to see better quality more “hardcore” games. And this is the tip of the iceberg.
The move up market has begun, disruption continues
