This.

lol yes we are disconnected to reality alright XD

not recognising 3ds and vita as a gaming console because it is not a HOME console... is like saying mixed martial arts is not a sports because it is not in the olympic

Just like I'm a big movie fan and don't watch Transformers or DC or Fast and Furious movies in theaters. Yet they make billions (not individually for DC, but combined). The hardcore segment will always differentiate from the mass audiences.

Also I used to get Madden every year but eventually I learned that nothing actually changes and I was just draining all my time into a circular pattern. Ever since High School I've always played games with ends. I don't get into never ending online stuff or yearly titles of any sort. I enjoy stories and will replay games like Heavy Rain and keep them in my permanent collection, but nothing like COD is ever touched because it's become so contrived at this point. I guess many of us are jaded by that sort of game.

On a game forum attached to a site about game sales, it shouldn't be too hard to understand the demographic is different from that of the general population.

This is actually a very interesting point. Right now most "neutral" gaming sites, are filled with Sony fanboys, upvoting everything positive about Sony, and downvoting anything negative about Sony, regardless of rationality. I remember back in 2009 or so, when the fanboys were more even between Xbox and Playstation, which then accurately represented the sales of the consoles as well. While I believe most of those are younger kids, who feel more strongly about the console their parents bought them, this kind of attitude seems to spread. People just like to hear positive things about their choice of console. In community driven places like this, it doesn't seem to be as much of a problem though, and since we have more people past their puberty and a lot of people who were gamers long before the turn of the millenium, there is a lot more varied and reasonable discussions here.

As to the OP. The majority of video game consumers, do not go to online forums and talk about games. We are the minority, the most passionate about games, and do not represent the majority.

A very long time ago I made a hobby out of watching the video game industry. Ever since the first Pong box for TV was sold, I read everything I could find that had anything to do with electronic games. The predictions made over 30 years ago have mostly come true now. Some things have happened that no one could have predicted (Nintendo making a Sonic amiibo). But over all these years one thing has not changed, and that is the fact that people will chose sides. It's just human nature to defend a choice they have made. Reality is in the eye of the beholder. Reality is purely subjective.

Well, it's impossible to calculate how many people are PC gamers. Plus, this gen, between the big 3, the number of hard sold is: 

Nintendo: 80m

Sony: 70m

Microsoft: ? (less than 30m I guess)

So as you can see, while this forum does not reflect reality, the reality itself is that the gamer userbase is split everywhere. There's nothing THAT dominant.

The only disconnect here seems to be your ability to qualify your stance. The forum isn't disconnected from reality, save a few, but we are not representative of it.

We're niche. We're the hardcore, the true life blood of the gaming industry. While others dabble we swim neck deep in this motherfucker, wading through the trenches.