To be upset by the lack of games of a certain type wouldn't these "real gamers" have to be interested in the platform?

No? Don't have to own a platform to be disappointed with it ... especially as from the get go Wii looked like a big depature from typical Nintendo home consoles, something that would have put core ninty fans on alert.

You present no counterargument, so i can only conclude that you are conceding to my point. I asserted the core gamer is a fabrication, and you said nothing.

Consoles dedicated to gaming will never be dead. There are too many gamers that would be willing to spend a premium to get the best possible gaming experience available and the only way for that to be possible is to build a dedicated gaming console. If Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo all move away from dedicated gaming consoles you can be assured that a new company will come in and fill that demand.

If you hadn't laid it out so preteniously I might have figured it out better. No I'm not conceding to your point, and that's a weak response from you to suggest core gamers don't exist, pretty damn weak. (and false, of course)

You're right Seece the Wii doesn't have an as great library but it's okay because the Wii is still a good console even though it might not have attracted as many "hardcore" gamers as the Xbox360 or PS3. And you can tell by it's amazing sales, so what if most of them are casual gamers? That I would say is a huge accomplishment because it made non-gamers become gamers. So, even though you probably won't listen to me, stop arguing/talking about it. And start talking about how stupid this guy is for thinking that this coming gen is "the last generation." 

I'd say it's a fairly strong argument, given that the colloquial definition of the core gamer has been fluid and varied from generation to generation. People who played Halo/GTA last generation were not core gamers, and how suddenly they are, and how do we account for that?

The Wii rediscovered Nintendo's real core audience, shedding the posers that had followed them previously

Smh you didn't even address his points. Prof was talking about a barometer for trad gamer count. This has nothing to do with it, since all games compete for purchase your argument is junk. Halo versus what? Gears, cod? Smash versus what? Mario kart, galaxy, etc. etc. the competition point is so bad...

ALL games compete, hence why the Other M example was valid, if you read it :S nobody wanted it, so it did not sell. If what gou were saying were true, it would have sold regardless, yet it didn't happen and that's why I politely but strongly disagree.

What core on the HD twins? cod players? Lmao.. A trad core gamer is someone who is serious about games. Nintendo provided serious content for the wii, as a basic example galaxy >>>>> sunshine. Cube gamers were blessed this gen, and only a twit would have been worried that motion controls would negatively affect supply of quality content, since revenue and install base due to the appealing tech drove momentum for more content, as one should have predicted, in their right minds of course...

I do not think so for as long as there is Nintendo. there will be a gaming console.
If Nintendo ever dropped out then . ya i'd be worried!

but  then again  this wont happen for a long time because not everyone has access to internet . fast enough to sustain cloud gaming .   and there is still alot of collectors such as my self who  like to collect physical media.  in fact until the internet it self is free .  I do not see consoles going off the market in place of internet needed devices!