The real sad news is that apparently two thirds of all core gamers play mobile games.
Yeah, what Llama said. The thing some of you are forgetting is that this is for business purposes. They're trying to identify and number a market of consumers.
As some of you are very well aware, a lot of the Nintendo fans don't exactly consume third party products voraciously, nor does Nintendo itself exactly court them. The more I think about it, the more and more their definition makes sense for their purposes.
The real sad news is that apparently two thirds of all core gamers play mobile games.
That's a nice hopeful thought, thanks.You can get some relief in that 3DS and Vita users are probably getting thrown into that box.
As some of you are very well aware, a lot of the Nintendo fans don't exactly consume third party products voraciously, nor does Nintendo itself exactly court them. The more I think about it, the more and more their definition makes sense for their purposes.
Why is that sad.
I play games on my phone in the bathroom/lunch/train/whenever. Why wouldn't you?
The real sad news is that apparently two thirds of all core gamers play mobile games.
I would consider myself a hardcore gamer... usually over 40 hours a week. But I never play any games on my phone, because I don't find them fun whatsoever.
I do browse forum websites on my phone all the time, but I think mobile games suck.
This was my thought too. 390 casual hours.I guess I'm a casual for investing so much time in Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate then, right?
Even if I had a smart device, I'd prefer tending to proper gaming platforms first, with the limited time on hand.Do you go out of your way to avoid them?
That's weird.
The real sad news is that apparently two thirds of all core gamers play mobile games.
Really? Every single one sucks?
What if I play Nintendo games for 35 hours a week? Am I not a hardcore gamer?
A lot of people seem upset they fall outside of the demographic most of the industry aims at. This isn't a challenge to people's gamer cred as much as it's pointing out that the industry itself has a definition that may diverge from gamers themselves.
I think it's more a problem with the fact that "core gamer" doesn't really mean anything. It's a term that people who feel passionate about videogames use to describe themselves, and NPD has drawn some pretty arbitrary lines as to who "counts."
People in this thread are trying to rationalize it by assuming definitions for "core" that would rationally not include Nintendo, but the definition NPD offered was very specific and very specifically arbitrary.
There's perhaps a controversial exclusion or two in here somewhere as well...
The real sad news is that apparently two thirds of all core gamers play mobile games.
Now that would be the real nightmare, lol. But seriously, publishers developing for smart devices are not after traditional gamers but are hoping to get their stuff going viral with the masses. I'd prefer a different focus for their resources.2/3 ALSO play mobile. Not only mobile. I almost got tripped up on that myself.
I'd imagine their definition fits the perception the majority of the gaming industry has. NPD exists to serve businesses. The fact that many gamers find NPD's information interesting enough to read and discuss is a secondary concern. Instead of realizing that all this description does is shine some light on the inner workings of the industry many people are taking it as some sort of personal affront.
Well, we can imagine and rationalize, but the actual "definition" they gave co-opted a term that many people identify with and arbitrarily excluded some of those people without any explanation or rationalization.
It's like if an organization gave a definition of Asian that read: "People of Chinese, Japanese, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Thai, Indian, or Filipino descent."
Can you think of other people who probably consider themselves Asian that have been arbitrarily left out of this "definition"? I can.
22 hours a week? Damn. I guess it's mostly kids playing that much though.
Wait people think this is high?
On average I'm close to double that a week.