Nintendo’s Euro Bureau Chief Laurent Fischer (Actually, he’s the senior marketing director. I just wanted to say Bureau Chief.) Has publicly stated the following:

“For me, you are a gamer or non-gamer,” he told CVG at Nintendo’s German HQ yesterday. “I think most of you know that you can spend ten or twenty hours on an internet flash game and have not realised. The guy who plays these games regularly - he’s a core gamer.”

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Now I’d like to respectfully disagree. First off, Nintendo sucks. Secondly, the definition of a Casual Gamer is that they only plays games… CASUALLY. A Casual Gamer owns a system or two, plays an hour here an hour there, but otherwise doesn’t play very much. A Hardcore Gamer plays over 20 or so hours a week, is up on all the news, talks about gaming constantly, and so on.

“I don’t like this word casual so much. Because people consider that casual needs to be something easy. If you’re good at any game you can play at a high difficulty level.

“Take Tetris. There is incredible gameplay, it’s very simple, very easy to understand, but it’s also very different. I think a game can be a light enough to enjoy and for all gamers to become a core gamer on it.”

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What the fuck is a Core Gamer? I swear, if people start calling themselves Core Gamers I might have to go on a murderous rampage.. In GTA. Who the fuck has ever defined a Casual Gamer as only playing easy games? I honestly don’t see why being a “Casual Gamer” is all of a sudden a negative. You play games, but you have restraint. Isn’t that exactly how most gamers should be? Instead of the 20 hour-a-day World of Warcraft guys who haven’t seen the sun in a month. There shouldn’t be any negativity placed on the term. Nintendo stating the fact that it is a negative, only exhibits that they know their system has been embraced by Casual Gamers, and they are trying to shake the title.