@Trajan

Some of you guys are funny as all get-out. The reason why sony or ANY of these guys ever do well enough for bean counters, fanboys et cetera to talk about & fight over is BECAUSE of the casuals. So I don't know why anyone that wants to talk/brag about numbers would try to minimize, denigrate and/or down play they're huge role in any of these guys success. And really, let's not act like putting a cheap DVD player in your console was something that "hardcore" (lol smh) gamers were clamoring for & wasn't anything but casual. They (sony) came into the game with casual all over them.

And hey, nothing wrong with that. As no matter what system it is, it's always the casuals that blow up your base. It's no different than why underground artists decide to go mainstream. The more acore gamers might be the initial quick adopters that help lay the initial foundation, but it"s always been the casuals that come to your system to truly help explode the numbers & build the fort. If it was truly all these "hardcore" gamers that made up the bulk of the base as so many here would have you believe selling 10 million copies or so of their acclaimed & supposed world beater games wouldn't be seen as some magnificent feat. In fact, that should be more than expected & pretty much just a drop in the bucket if it's all the "hardcore" Gamers out there buying all these "hardcore" games.

Yet, that's generally not the case. Which is why we're celebrating 10 to 12 million copies sold on a use of base of over s hundred million. Now that in no way diminishes the feats accomplished, but hell, there are games that sell about as good or better on Nintendo platgormswith much less advertising and air time than many of these games.