Nintendo basically says, "There is no mafia."

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Slash said:
If he doesn't like the word casual then he shouldn't use the term core gamer. Core gamer implies that there is at least another kind of gamer out there. His first sentence that there are gamers and non-gamers should of been he opening and closing sentence.

It does and does not. Core gamer doesn't exclude casual or hardcore for that matter, unless you define the market as casual/core/hardcore, when you are talking about groups that: don't buy a lot of games and don't get catered in the market/buy a lot of games and the market caters for them/don't buy a lot of games and market doesn't cater for them. So actually you should be talking about core and non-core gamer. And as i pointed out, you can jump from a group to another, or jump naturally as the market changes and you don't. For example, the hardcore gamer that plays Nintendogs 6 hours a day, and don't buy a new game, definately isn't a core gamer. Or, the casual gamer who plays CS or CoD4 online 6 hours a day and don't buy a new game, definately isn't a core gamer. But the guy, who plays hour a day and buys a new game every time there's an interesting game release, is a core gamer. Now, when you think of it, there's only gamers and non-gamers, although when you are talking about non-gamers, you are talking also about the people, who don't pay for the games they play (for example the free flash games, Solitaire and Hearts that came along with your OS etc.). Edit: @greenmedic: You were a bit faster on this one.