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vaio on 28 January 2010
Zlejedi said:
vaio said:
kowenicki said:
vaio said:
kowenicki said:
trangentspree said:
kowenicki said:
I disagree...

it isnt ridiuclous to say the wii is less hardcore than the 360 or PS3 because it is less hardcore in my opinion.

You are ridiculous.

In my opinion.


why?  i had a reason for this report being ridiculous.

so waht makes 360 more hardcore then the Wii?

I dont actually like the tags hardcore and casual, but this article started it so....

Whilst it is true to say all consoles will have hardcore gamers playing them and hardcore games on them, the 360 and PS3 will have more hardcore games and gamers due to a number of factors thus we can call them more hardcore consoles, couple of points could be......

1.  the biggest selling games and most of its fans prefer what would commonly be caledl hardcore games.

2. online gaming, with tournaments, clans etc etc

now, at the other guy, why am i ridiculous....  or was it a knee jerk throw away insult?

 

1. the biggest selling games are mostly on Wii and you cant get more hardcore then Mario kart (even it it is also a casula experience), NSMB is as hardcore as it gets.

2. Has nothing to do with hardcore, a game and a console can and is hardcore with out online even if I prefer to have it as a compliment to my hardcore needs. The tournament part is lacking but its somewhat there in Mario kart but it clearly needs lots of improvement.

 

Edit: I dont like the labels either but a true harcore gamer will have a HD and a Wii or he isnt a true hardcore gamer.

That's a funny joke. PC with either of HD twins gives you much much broader choice of good core games than Wii plus HD console.

 

PC+Wii in that case as you can get most games from HD consoles on PC but this is not about PC it´s about consoles so there is no need to drag pc into this.



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forest-spirit on 28 January 2010

An excellent article, I give it 9/10.

It's nice to see someone pointing out that hardcore =/= M rated games once in a while.



Mummelmann on 28 January 2010

It seems like everyone agrees that the term hardcore is mostly undefined, right? Well, then this article is useless, since anyone can set their own personal parameters to the term itself this only means that subjectively in the authors mind, this is how things are but not objectively.
If you ask a hundred people what "bright" means (as in lights) you'll get quite a few different answers despite certain people agreeing and no one is wrong (and, subsequently, no one is right either).

The article itself is fine but it implies that the author has the final authority on what hardcore is or isn't and that's a tad pretentious to me.