Microsoft refers to core audience as "Sweaty thirty year olds in Metallica t-shirts"
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I translate that as: "We can say whatever we want about our main audience because they'll buy our shit anyway."
Generally a crack dealer can call his customers dicks on a daily basis, he knows they'll keep coming back for more. 
I am just pointing out that the way you read it was out of context. Also I don't see how playing games could estrange anyone. It is the same as just watching TV or doing a sport. The same amount of time would be put into each really. If anymore is a problem then it would of been a problem no matter what was done. Also this hardly going to get people into gaming. My sister has a Wii and two games which she never plays. This is a classic example of the audience MS is targetting. They will buy it and get a few games and probably never buy more game or very few as is the case with the Wii. Amazing hardware sales but crappy software sales. So the fact that MS seems so content to say that basically its whole audience pre Kinect are just a bunch of sweaty thirty year olds who wear Metallica T-Shirts means that MS core fans and the people who actually bought the damn xboxs and made Kinect possible have every right to be mad if they so please.DNA said:
I'm 18
I wear colourful clothes (currently in a red T-shirt)
I used to be chubby but I lost a lot of weight and I don't sweat very often even during sports
I dislike Metallica and seriously
Why do people give this company money, I refuse to pay for xbox live and I refuse to ever buy a Microsoft product again
I wear colourful clothes (currently in a red T-shirt)
I used to be chubby but I lost a lot of weight and I don't sweat very often even during sports
I dislike Metallica and seriously
Why do people give this company money, I refuse to pay for xbox live and I refuse to ever buy a Microsoft product again
I don't see how you could get that out of his statements. He was going on about how complex non-motion controls were and the only people who would want that were the gamer stereotypes. Granted, I doubt he genuinely believed that and he was assuredly just trying to sell the Kinect to the non-gaming audience he had, but he was reinforcing the negative stereotype of gamers, not trying to say it didn't apply anymore.gamer_parent said:
Oh, and to follow the trend, I'm not a sweaty thirty year old in a Metallica shirt. I'm a sweaty nineteen year old in, at the moment, assless chaps.
Regardless to whomever the so-called "Hardcore Gamer" stereotype actually is, I'm just completely shocked that they would insult their entire reason for being. There wouldn't be a Microsoft gaming division if it wasn't paid for by the fans he just insulted.
Fuck off, you corporate ass.
This is exactly why I want to see all these super-projects like "Kinect" and "Move" fail. Whatever keeps these hulking corporate monstrosities in check. If not, they will literally just monopolize the entire industry with this kind of bullshit. It's Microsoft's forte.
What the hell is going to happen, and where the hell will we be when Microsoft achieves it's "every crowd, every house" goal? Other than running the entire show.. what would that mean for games? And does ACTA have anything to do with this grand scheme..? Probably.
Fuck off, you corporate ass.
This is exactly why I want to see all these super-projects like "Kinect" and "Move" fail. Whatever keeps these hulking corporate monstrosities in check. If not, they will literally just monopolize the entire industry with this kind of bullshit. It's Microsoft's forte.
What the hell is going to happen, and where the hell will we be when Microsoft achieves it's "every crowd, every house" goal? Other than running the entire show.. what would that mean for games? And does ACTA have anything to do with this grand scheme..? Probably.