Jane Q. Gamer is a single mother raising 2 kids, Skip and Nathaniel. She MAKES them each play games for an hour each day. Skip plays Halo, Gears of War, BioShock, and nothing else. Nathaniel mostly plays Wii Sports, Wii Play, Guitar Hero, DDR, Tetris, and Brain Age, but he plays many other games too. Jane Q. Gamer plays Snood, Peggle, and Hexic on her laptop. Skip and Nathaniel both play for 7 hours a week, and Jane plays for 15 hours a week.


Who's hardcore?

People call themselves hardcore to boost their small self-esteem. People call other gamers casual because they can't accept that some people have different preferences than them.

Here is a thought: There is nothing but gamers. Each gamer has their own genre preferences (Minigames, RPG, shooter, etc.), and each gamer has a different amount of time available in their lives to play games.

If anything you could say that certain games or game companies have a "core" fanbase of dedicated fans, but these people are such a small percentage of the industry that they are a non-factor. 

I've played video games every day for over twenty-five years. Yet, I only own a Wii and DS. I'm married, and I work. I don't have time to play all three consoles.

My taste in games ranges from puzzle games and platformers all the way up to FPSs and epic RPGs.

I'll be buying MoH2 for the Wii and playing online. I'm getting GHIII next week and will compete online. On the flip side, I'm excited about Spielberg's new puzzle game for the Wii ("LMNO") and Dr. Mario on the Wii Ware.

Am I hardcore? I don't care. What I do care about are developers avoiding the Wii because of false assumptions. I'm missing out on some kickass games, but I can't justify spending $500-$600 (all tolled) on a second system.

I just hope MoH2 sells like hotcakes. Maybe that will show publishers and developers that "hardcore" games can succeed on the Wii.

smashboards = hardcore gamers

NEXT!

Hardcore gamers do NOT try to 'avoid' casual games, that's the silliest thing I've ever heard. That's like saying film fanatics never watch normal television.

Hardcore gamers invest the majority of their free time, effort and interest into gaming usually to the point where it stops just being a pasttime.

Its simply because these companies know their games would get blown away by Nintendo first party, and they know they can't produce the same quality as a nintendo game so they make up excuses

well said naz.

In fact, sounds eerily familiar to something I said not 2 minutes earlier! ;)You should learn to type faster =)

you put John before... are you switching people or did you out the wrong name originally?

She played Peggle.. go her PEGGLE FTW!!!. Grant it.. I still want to burn pop-cap down.

On subject really I dont care. I play professionaly and play for cash, it could be a Guitar Hero tournament a pokemon red tournament a Wii Sports or Wii Fit tournament (if theres a way to be competitive with Wii Fit...) I'll play, I play to win, I play for cash, I play for fun, and I play for bragging rights. 

Frankly I dont care about if you called me a casual or hardcore, frankly im a professional and nothing will take that away from me as no one can stop me from playing in tournaments. 

I put games in different catagories I try to put gamers in titles that fit their gaming preference but there is no reason why anyone cant fit in multiple titles. Puzzle games, sports games, and mini-games are casual so people who play these over 80% of the time are casual gamers. I play them about 20% of the time because I enjoy playing DOTA in WC3. I try to balance my games as much as I can. 

The only title I dont beleive in is the "none" gamer. Everyones a gamer and there is no such think as a none game im sorry anything can be a game. Building a computer could become a game.  

 Try Tennis.

You mean the 91 pin glitch right?  

I hope so.