Sean Malstrom has posted a pair of new articles.

He said that his new article was going to be long and he's right, the second one especially is huge! Better go start reading......

Link? I don't know the webadress, and would love to read them. Thanks in advance.

Name or link directly to the new articles plz. Not everyone of us are (yet) following Malstrom to know which ones are new.

Finding Nintendo's Shield: http://malstrom.50webs.com/shield.htm
Finding Nintendo's Sword: http://malstrom.50webs.com/sword.htm

http://malstrom.50webs.com/disruptionchronicles.htm

Two new articles under the Phase Two: Assymetric War header.

http://malstrom.50webs.com/test.htm

And also, the new Disruptive Values Test.

Plus some posts on the news page. Gonna take me while to sift through all this content.

Gah! Walls of text. Malstrom is smart, but Im not in the mood for such a massive read.

Whats the short versions?

I wish he would just do an audio book of all this stuff...complete with sounds effects, so I could just listen to it while I work.

Tempted to put it through a Text to voice program....

Yay. Thank you

Although Malstrom is right writing that the new casual market could dwarf the hardcore one, he likes to go over the top and somebody doesn't understand it: no giant meteorite fell on earth selectively making hardcore gamers become extinct, while sparing casual ones' life.
There were roughly 100 million console hardcore gamers and another 100 million PC ones (most probably overlapping with a part being both PC and console hardcore) before Wii, and perhaps now they are even more, as there is a minority of hardcore gamers also in emerging countries.
The long and short of this matter is that casual market is lost for Sony and MS this gen, so they must fight for a limited resource, the hardcore market, while Nintendo is free to do whatever it wants in the new and still unlimited (it isn't, actually, but its limits are very far away, so it can be considered unlimited in the short term) market.

 If for Hardcore gamers you mean higher tier users ( like many that attend VG forum ) then your numbers are ridicolous

Example : GTA SA for PS2 sold around 15 million units ( best-selling game on the most successful , unit wise, console ever ) on 130 million PS2 sold to retailer ( real userbase should be lower for example around 100 million ).

Only 15% of PS2 owner bought what is the best selling software on the platform.

Also many high tier user generally buy more than one system per generation ( so you can not add them from GC,XBOX and PS2 )