Owning an Xbox One doesn't make you a "real gamer".

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FIT_Gamer on 01 July 2014

foodfather said:
I see someone daily quota for xbox hate threads has not yet been met.

It's actually a response to an article posted a day before this one titled "Why real gamers own Xbox One."

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d21lewis on 01 July 2014

Landguy said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Landguy said:

SirFortesque said:
I knew a guy that bought a PS3 at the time just because "it's 600€ and I'm rich"... so yeah, owning a console doesn't make you a gamer.

Pretty much this^^^

Owning the consle is one thing. Using it to play games is a whole other story!

Is there really anybody who has ever bought a console and not actually played games on it?

When the PS2 came out, it was the best and cheapest DVD player on the market. Many people bought it for that alone. When the PS3 came out, it was the BEST bluray player for half the price on the market. It too sold a lot of units for that feature alone.

THere is not way to put a number on that, but if you look at game attach rates on the PS2 and PS3 compared to other consoles, it kind of makes sense.

I wouldn't say it was the "Best" DVD player! There were a lot of DVD's that didn't even work on the PS2 when it launched originally. They had to release an update disc and even then, I'd still rent movies that wouldn't work. I'd have to take them back to the video store (man, I feel like an old man just saying that!) and exchange the DVD for the VHS version. Later PS2 releases were fully compatible, though. But I do agree that there was a time when the PS2 was used more as a DVD player than a game device. Until late 2001, mine gathered a lot of dust when it wasn't being used for movies.

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Michael-5 on 01 July 2014

Good article and I agree.

If anything I don't consider most XB1 owners real gamers, but once the games start rolling out (and now that there is a Kinect-free system), I'll change my stance. I consider anyone a gamer if they research what games they might want before buying them. If I buy my gf Zelda and she plays it, she's not a real gamer for instance because she relies on me for her gaming needs.

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ikki5 on 01 July 2014

congrats, thanks for making a post about something everyone knows. Just because you own a system doesn't make you a gamer.

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JazzB1987 on 01 July 2014

Owning a PS4 also does not. You are not a gamer just by owning a device. You have to play the correct type of game to be a gamer. If you do this on a 20 year old console or on a modern one is totally irrelevant.

I say correct type of game because you can also play games without being a gamer.

And btw "real gamer" does exist. What does NOT exist is the differentiation between hardcore and casual. Because games like Tetris are both at the same time and this should simply be impossible according to the people that say something is either hardcore or casual.

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Landguy on 01 July 2014

d21lewis said:

Landguy said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Landguy said:

SirFortesque said:
I knew a guy that bought a PS3 at the time just because "it's 600€ and I'm rich"... so yeah, owning a console doesn't make you a gamer.

Pretty much this^^^

Owning the consle is one thing. Using it to play games is a whole other story!

Is there really anybody who has ever bought a console and not actually played games on it?

When the PS2 came out, it was the best and cheapest DVD player on the market. Many people bought it for that alone. When the PS3 came out, it was the BEST bluray player for half the price on the market. It too sold a lot of units for that feature alone.

THere is not way to put a number on that, but if you look at game attach rates on the PS2 and PS3 compared to other consoles, it kind of makes sense.

I wouldn't say it was the "Best" DVD player! There were a lot of DVD's that didn't even work on the PS2 when it launched originally. They had to release an update disc and even then, I'd still rent movies that wouldn't work. I'd have to take them back to the video store (man, I feel like an old man just saying that!) and exchange the DVD for the VHS version. Later PS2 releases were fully compatible, though. But I do agree that there was a time when the PS2 was used more as a DVD player than a game device. Until late 2001, mine gathered a lot of dust when it wasn't being used for movies.

Yeah, I managed Best Buy stores when the PS2 launched. After the intital launch wave, If you didn't have the PS2 remote in stock, it was a lot harder to sell the system. Back then, it was mostly Mom's and Dad's buying the systems.

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