This is just a trolling thread. I'm sorry that I'm locking it after you put so much effort into it, but the last thing we need is another condescending anti-HD editorial.

Locked.

"Yes, the Wii often offers the superior version of a multi platform game."

Please give some examples. I know there can't be too many as the 360 and Ps3 have many more A, B, and C rated games than the Wii.

PES 2008 + any snowboarding/skate balance board game. Plus any shooters for the controls alone.

"Often" may be an overstatement at the moment, I doubt it will be an overstatement come 2010.

      Because you have to stand up to play Wii Sports?  Well, you've certainly formulated a new definition of "hardcore" gamer.

i'm not just a graphic whore, i'm a whore period.

I see what you are saying with this. The 'hardcore' notion has now been stapled on goring fps/adventure games that have been milked recently and I mean completely milked- the cow is deflated.

People who complain about graphics, logically can't be real gamers. Great games like pac-man, tetris, super mario bros., etc. would be lost on them. The material itself was simple, eat for points, change shape, run to the end. I think that guy G4 made a movie of is really hardcore (the one with Donkey Kong), not that the game was hardcore, the person is hardcore.

I was fine with people saying they are hardcore gamers, but now people have created "hardcore games", this is just silly. A game will always just be a game, if a kid plays or a adult plays- it is still a game. The effort you put into it can only be classified as hardcore or not.