Personally, I divide hardcore and casual based on people's interests in gaming. Some people love games but don't really have the time to play them, so they don't play them very often. For some people, it's just a nice little thing to do to pass the time when they're bored. The interest and passion for gaming is what determines it I'd say.

What market the games are aimed are very important. If a platform excels at unpopular genres (Vita is a great example), then it won't spur big hardware growth. In that way, it makes sense to try and define who is playing what and how you're able to attract more users to the platform.

it' a problem that been talked about to death since n64 days.

also we still get the occasional thread or two a day lol

Switch is just released, so of course there is no much more announcements for now, on other hand E3 is less than 2 months away and Nintendo definitely they saved some big announcements for E3.

1st 9 months of 1st party Switch lineup is one strongest ever for Nintendo console, 3D Zelda, 3D Mario, Mario Kart and new IP that become very strong(Splatoon2).

About Nintendo announcements, that totaly make sense, offcourse that Nintendo did not annuce all games they have in development for Switch, they need to have annucments in later dates also, espacily for E3, and to have some suprises for rest of year. Nintendo already done that before, announced or show game for 1st time at E3 that will be released later in same year. Nintendo release list for whole year are always changing, we recently didn't know even for Minecraft.

And Nintendo made pretty good Switch lineup for 2017. one stronger 1st party game around every 1.5 month, and some 3rd parties and Indies between.

We've already had quite a few threads with exactly the same topics.

This all isn't really a problem YET.

As long as they can sell systems as fast as they can manufacture them, they don't need to oversell by pushing software out the door early.

I'm sure come E3, there will be plenty of physical releases announced. Particularly with the amount of Switch dev kits that have been shipped directly to major publishers by now.

I agree with these sentiments, pokoko. I consider myself something of a Nintendo fan; I bought the Wii U about a year after it came out, and I'm most likely going to buy a Switch eventually, though probably not for several more months.

I actually think Nintendo should do a better job of enticing past Nintendo gamers back into the fold. As popular as the Wii was with casual gamers, it seems like it had plenty of first party Nintendo titles as well, whereas the Wii U seemed to have much fewer.

It's not as uncommon as you think. This sort of topic pops up from time to time and it's not just exclusive to the Switch. It pops up as comments in other threads as well. I'm sure there were 2 recently addressing this, as well as we we shouldn't worry about it. I've said it several times already fairly recent, with comments like 'The console is still new', 'Wait for E3', 'It doesn't need specific games to be a success', etc. And there's the other side as well, such as 'Nintendo needs 3rd party or the console will fail' and 'Nintendo will have to prove their console is worth investing in'. Something like that. It's actually starting to sound like a broken record at this point

Bwahahaha. I can relate to that so much. xD