I'd like the half a minute it took me to read that back.

I disagree with your classifications and your negativity when viewing them. 

There are 2 kinds of people in the world, the kind that arbitrarily pigeonhole everybody into random groups with random labels to marginalize and belittle everybody, and the kind that get this joke.



Games are fun. People like fun. Trying to label people as different types of "gamers" is almost as stupid as the word "gamer." Who seriously calls themselves a gamer?

"So, what do you do for fun?"
"Well I'm a gamer, so, ya know, I game."

oh yeah, Super Mario Galaxy is as hardcore as it gets.

I agree.

It's just a classification.  You can disagree all you want, there was no negativity put there at all.  Human beings are classification animals.  We classify all parts of nature, and all animals.  Humans are just another animal, and from my observations, there are three different types of gamers.  Some people will no doubt not easily fall into one category or another, but classifications are general and work for the masses, not always the specifics. 

It's much the same with music in that there are hardcore music fans, pop music fans, and casual music fans.  Or what have you--movies, the like.

 For hardcore, it's practically a lifestyle.

For pop, a passing hobby and they aren't so into it that it is a lifestyle--they like it but follow the more popular easy-to-reach side.

Casuals like but only take a passing interest.  A casual music fan doesn't really own a lot of albums, and they're happy listening to basically whatever radio station.

I'm basically "hardcore" in all my interests as they are all serious parts of my life.  I just take everything pretty seriously.  I don't get this will offense you feel about being classified.  It's not like I came to your house and tattooed your classification on your forehead and forced you to only be involved with like-people.  You angry gamer.

Well it's not surprising. All that other stuff that said Wii gamers are all casual was made bullshit made by bias media sites. I mean everyone with a brain has known this all along.

As long as gamers are playing a game atleast 2-3 hours 2 times a week, you can call them core gamers. You dont need a 5 hours session in your PC/console everyday just to say you're a core gamer.

Many people plays games because of what it meant to be, to play, to enjoy the games, not to be frustrated in a game because you cant find a way or an item and spend your time atleast an hour just to figure out what will you do.

Thats why Im not ashamed if Im using gamefaqs or youtube to find walkthroughs to beat a certain game if Im stuck, theres a reason why walkthroughs are made, use it.

im 19 and game 26-32 hours a week.

edit: i own all 3 consoles + gaming pc though! 

Well, I own a Wii and I am a hardcore gamer

I should really read the article, probably will after this... actually I did read the article to understand it but I don't remember key talking points; so I'll read it again... but:

As I'm sure someone else mentioned she's (pardon my french) or would be bitch slapping the gaming journalists in their face by using their own wording to define the userbase of the party/casual console while being able to say to vanguard investors - "we are ready to go for the next market."

It's a battle of semantics and I believe even malstrom (paraphrasing him) nintendo doesn't speak in that language. (All japanese jokes aside.)

Actually if she did actually say or made a floating point around hardcore gamers being on the Wii, theirs actually a whole list of people that got slapped and hard, if Microsoft understood this the way I think it's mean't they would take 2 steps back instead of their 1 step forward; but what do I know >.>.. oh and for the record Microsoft's marketers were on the top of that list that got slapped.