sorry, this is not pornography, its video games. lol

Unless Nintendo starts to charge money to keep your workout routine monthly, I don't see it outselling WoW in term of LT profits.

I never played WoW, but damn, are people addicted to that. Wiifit will never make someone addicted to it.

In my 62 years I have had many hobbies and interests but I've yet to find one that doesn't have a level of conflict between the serious dedicated elite/ obsessed crazies and the casual newbies/ recreational individuals that have a life. If it's a group activity the tension will often split the group and the war will continue group vs. group individual vs. individual. 

When I did Revolutionary War re-enacting there were the Farbs ( fake+garb or far be it from me to criticize but...) and the Thread-counters. One group figured that if you couldn't tell the difference at five feet it was authentic enough. The other group demanded uniforms of 100 wool, the precise color and thread count or it was complete crap.

The debating back and forth can be fun until someone starts taking it too seriously and then each group will end up spoiling the experience for the other and driving them off.

Whether you consider yourself "hardcore" or "casual" you are already in a  tiny minority of people in the world  who care enough about video gaming to be reading this site, and it benefit's no one to make that group even smaller.

The soap box is now free.

Damn, 62 years? Are you sure it was a re-enactment? 

I kid :) 

I agree with your post, and the posts above. When you have the millions of players that WoW has, you are going to get all kinds. I guess the only thing I took issue with was grouping all WoW players, and then calling that group casual players. 

Very bad discussion, no point really in bringing this up, the answer is WoW.
The game will be played for years to come.

I'm going to say World of Warcraft. It substitutes for real life.

Watch it sunny boy, that's six decades of learning how to put the hurt on you.

I kid too :)   Actually it was a pretty funny crack

Thanks :) I am coming up on 40, so as a gamer, I get a lot of old jokes thrown my way. It's nice to have someone to pass them on to ;) 

WoW brings Blizzard in $150,000,000 a month. How much of that is revenue, who knows.

figure ~50% is pure profit. rest goes for bandwidth,salaries,servers/rent/utilities for the whole company.