"The average Wii gamer is a hardcore gamer, Nintendo of America's Cammie Dunaway told the Electronic Gaming Summit today.

Seventy-nine percent of Wii gamers are male, most older than 18 with an income of $50,000 or more and more than half game for five or more hours a week, Dunaway said."

http://kotaku.com/5010227/nintendo-wii-gamers-are-hardcore-gamers

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Is anyone claiming that the Sega Genesis had a larger number of AAA(or any classification, really) games than the SNES?

I believe that if such a claim exists then there must also still be opinions in this world that state the Earth is flat, the sky is green, and due to a time paradox, the christian Bible has actually yet to be written.

I don't believe the DS is as good as the SNES, no. The SNES is widely regarded as the best console ever created. The Genesis, while a great console, is not known as a particularly gameheavy console and in fact, with the magic of emulators, I can safely say there are WAYYYYY less great/classic games on the Genesis than there are on the SNES. This is simply due to a lack of third party support(as the genesis first party games are excellent).

Sega certainly had some of the best games, but they also had very few good games, relatively. Especially when you compare it to the SNES which had full Square-Enix support. The SNES' library was astounding.


That said, let me rephrase myself:

Not owning a DS now and pretending to be a hardcore gaming journalist, is like not owning a SNES during the 16-bit era and pretending to be a hardcore gaming journalist.

I think that should quell any uprisings that my Genesis hate may have caused. I actually owned a Genesis and a 32x, just FYI. I bet I'm the only one here who owned that piece of garbage.

I preferred the Genesis to the SNES but it certainly hasn't had any effect on what consoles I've owned (and I've owned nearly all of them at one point or another, including the 32X).

I'd also submit that, outside of RPGs, the Genesis had a library every bit as AAA as the SNES (and the Genesis had much better shooters and sports games).

Interesting.

Nintendo Hardcore - Yes
Nintendo Casual - Yes (casual doesn't mean party games in this instance, it means those who play Mario Kart or GTA or sports games)

Xbox Hardcore - No
X-box Casual - Not much (Halo and Sports fans won't budge)

PS Hardcore - Not much
PS Casual - Yes (most of them, and there are a lot of them)

Dreamcast Hardcore - Yes

PC Hardcore - Yes
PC Casual - Some

Non Gamer - Yes (includes an extra casual set of PC gamers... flash games etc)

Ahh nice one.

I am going to bookmark that for Crazzyman

So they are pretty much saying bla bla bla? bla bla bla bla bla? bla........bla


Did I get it right?

Yes, and it would help in the future if this is how they all read up front so we could just ignore it and move on to the next.

I'm a hardcore gamer, and I wouldn't take a Wii even if it was free. >=(

Well I own it and I'm one of the biggest hardcore gamers out there haha.

But are they buying it? I don't know nor care haha. As long as I have it haha.

When are people going to realize hardcore gamers don't care about graphics