Game - amusement or pastime; contest for amusement; single period of play in a contest; an activity distinct from work with rules, challenges, and interactivity; scheme or trick; animals or birds hunted for sport or food; their flesh. -v gamble. -adj brave; willing. Gamely adv gaming gambling. Gamekeeper, person employed to breed game and prevent poaching. Gamesmanship, art of winning by cunning practices without actually cheating. Gamer - ? There is no formative definition of a gamer let alone what is a casual to hardcore gamer until now. Well I'll be trying to define it, while at the same time categorizing/defining gamers. Whether they're athletes or not will be for another time, but for now I'll tell you the categories and what/why I go into a specific category.
Since many words come from other words it'll be natural that I use pre-existing words to define words in the gaming community. What I find with people who try to define what is casual and hardcore they don't break it down into sub-categories. Let's start with the title "Casual Gamer" is just a permissive person who plays at irregular / infrequent intervals. I would say there are two types of casual gamers the one (Neutral Gamer) that really enjoys the time playing and the other (Impulsive Gamer) who just goes with the flow seeing it as second nature. Now going to the hardcore gamers where I think many people should really use sub-categories since there are so many different levels.
As for the main category the "Hardcore Gamer" is someone who knows the basics of the industry, is an informed gamer, generally challenges themselves/sets goals, knows what they want, and strives to get it; is what centrally drives them to games. I've been searching the internet for what people thought and will put other types of gamers under the hardcore category. First up will be the cyber-athlete/professional (pro) gamer, is the type of person who plays games for money almost to the point it's like a career, or is looking for money by playing video games. Retro gamer, is a person who enjoys playing/collecting vintage games and can't live without the backwards compatibilities on consoles/emulators. Import gamer, is a person who loves playing games that aren't from their region even if it's a different language than theirs.
Elite gamer, is a person who knows a lot about their particular platform, thinks it's the best no matter what, and would rather be caught dead instead of playing games on the rival platform(s). Fanatic gamer (Fan-base), is a person who can be a follower of the numbers/sales, games (franchises, series), genres (Real Time Strategy, First Person Shooter), developer(s)/person(s), products (toys, controllers, canned beverages) and overall has an intense liking, occasionally has an overwhelming obsession. This term is altered in the gaming community for some odd reason, but I personally think it (Fan-boy/girl) should be called "Elitism" not "Fanatics'." I believe being a fanatic draws gamers together like Trekkers /Trekkies at Star Trek conventions.
As you can see being a hardcore gamer isn't defined by how much you play, but your incentive to play. With all hardcore gamers they're well informed about the gaming industry otherwise they wouldn't be able to import games knowing the names of the games they want, or even knowing how to play/purchase games from previous generations. Remember now this isn't a surgical operation where you have to meet certain criteria to be called hardcore; example playing a single game for at least 6-12 hours straight. You can also be more than one if you think you just don't fall into one type of hardcore gamer, but at least gives you an idea of where I'm heading with this.
What type of gamer am I? Well I'm the hardcore fanatic gamer and people will most likely strongly dissagree with my definition or think I'm really arrogant. Well I'm proud to be a fanatic, but I wouldn't say I'm authoritative. At the same time I do try to set new standards to open people's minds. Technically speaking you can create a Neutral "Hardcore" Gamer category if you really want to be categorized, where you don't really do anything special. For the most part most gamers are "Fanatic Gamers" if you really think about it. I'm more of a hardcore - fanatic I play games to beat them, have fun, and go online. You can call me a fanatic gamer because I'm a fan of Metal Gear Solid and Gran Turismo Series with many more on the list. You can also go by genre and say I play a lot of third peson shooters, racing games, and first person shooters.
I'm also well informed about games in the sense that I know what's coming out, what the game's features are, and have account(s) on gaming sites for updates. What I think makes me a hardcore gamer is that I strive for the challenge, yet that challenge varies from person to person. I usually play games no lower than Normal, but usually play on the hardest difficulty settings. Another hardcore gamer might want to beat a game under a certain time or collecting achievements/trophies in their games. A casual gamer wouldn't be interested in getting too involved in the game. Hence, the lack of depth in with games that is labelled as casual, pickup and plays mechanics.
I find that when a journalist or user tries to define what is a casual gamer to a hardcore gamer they list criteria, not characteristics. A combination of qualities distinguishing an individual should be the definition. Just like in real life I'm not so much a sports fanatic so I'm a casual sports person. Yes, believe it or not I don't enjoy watching too many sports besides fighting or unless I'm watching myself play sports, lol. Then you'll have you sports fanatics where they check the stats of their teams to heart, collect the cards, or even jerseys of their favourite team/player. For the fact I'm even doing this shows how serious I am on the topic that will automatically ****fy me as a hardcore gamer because of how much depth I have on the topic.
As you can see a casual gamer plays games in irregular / infrequent intervals, hardcore gamers have priorities, and why I should be called a hardcore gamer.
Mental Note: There might be other types of hardcore gamers, but wanted to make this short as possible, if you can call it that?
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The Nintendo Switch 2 may receive support for docked mode 4K and 120 Hz output at some point in the future.
hopefully VRR via a firmware update is released for docked play as well (like the PS5 did post release)
There's actually a pretty long list of games on PS5 that support 120hz. Even more with 60+hz unlocked, and that isn't even counting PS5 Pro.
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Yes, according to the dock teardown. It contains HDMI hardware chip of Realtek RTD2175N that supports 4K 120hz. And the HDMI included on the Switch 2 is HDMI 2.1.
Nintendo Switch 2 breaks US launch sales record, selling over 1.1 million units in its first week. This breaks the record set by PS4.
I'm happy for Nintendo. Even though the Switch 2 has received so much hate just to bring it down, it hasn't won. Even though some are saying they'll boycott Nintendo, it hasn't affected sales. Especially now, with word of mouth that the system is good, demand for the Switch 2 will definitely increase more.
But But the internet told me the switch 2 was going to be a failure.
Such a good system im having a blast with it and really enjoying my first ever playthrough of yakuza 0
Sold through or to the stores? Asking because they're tons of them at my local Best Buy. When the PS5 and Series consoles launched, you couldn't find them anywhere.
The article clearly says sold. If it were shipped, it would say shipped.
Nintendo had been saying the last year or so that they would be flooding stock so that scalpers would not be an issue. They've followed through with their word. It's not cutting edge tech, so it's been easier for them to sit on stock for a while until it accumulated to a massive number available to be shipped.
Good for them, I'm still not buying.
Looks to be a pretty safe and boring upgrade over Switch 1 which I don't think they can top it on how plain looking it is design wise.
Shame since Switch Lite showed they still know how to make a handheld that looks good and is actually portable in a classic Nintendo sense.
That's why I got one over Switch 2's block of charcoal.
Then there's the prices of it all and the whole Key card thing destroyed any sense of game ownership.
There'll be a number of revisions for the s2 like a s2 lite or oled also seems inevitable
Unless they drop the prices and actually has a more portable variant that can also dock then maybe I'll reconsider but as of now, nope too big too boring and expensive to make it worth this early, not enough of its own games atm as well.
Who knows removing the dock capabilities would lower the cost of the unit pretty significantly.
The cost of the dock, reduction in shipping costs etc bug savings which will enable a cheaper system
I published this on GameSpot first and they don't like certain words like "Style" or "Classify" so they put asterix (*) in play of most of the characters. I just forgot to actually spell out the word(s) when copying and pasting this on N4G.com.
You have an incredible collection. I must admitt feelings of envy. I always pawn my previuos system to get new ones, saves money. But having all those systems must be nice. Ever got online with the SATURN? It's great. I heard people still get online with their Saturn and DC via pseudo SEGA CHANNEL/SEGA.NET servers. The only system I've kept is my PCengine/CD for Bonks Adventure, and yes you can still get online with it, but it sucks. You got the good version of the SEGA CD, mine was the erlier version with the disc tray that pops out and it always got stuck. I always laugh when I see the 3DO. The full motion videogames memories of my 3DO are still haunting my dreams... On-topic: I don't care what "category" people put me(my music or my personality) in. I just do what I do. From your comment history I would have never guessed you had an xbox. From my history you might think I don't have a ps3. I guess you can't judge a book by it's cover.
EDIT: I just remembered "TOM CAT ALLEY" for SEGA CD. NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I'm gonna have horribly pixelated nightmares tonight.
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