oh. Im wrong because um..the "hardcoe" gamers are all on xbox. Hard to argue with that "logic" does that mean you all have to eat,drink, and sleep as you play?
What he is saying is that the average Xbox gamer buys more games than the average PS3 or Wii gamer. There have been multiple studies into this and this can be considered a fact. For example American sportgames X360 vs PS3 is 3 to 1 in sales, FIFA sells equally as much but games like Skyrim sell almost twice as much on X360 even thought worldwide PS3 has as much units sold. Of course if you look at the division of Skyrim sales than most are sold in the USA where X360 is more dominant. Add the fact that this is also the console with the most hardcoe gamers and it should come as no suprise that Skyrim finds almost half its buyers on X360.
Last gen itwas PS2 that had the hardcoe market, the original xbox had reasonable sales (it even outsold the gamecube) but the average owner only bought a few games so it could never compete. The hardcoe gamer was on PS2 and that is why PS2 got the focus. Now X360 has this marketsegment and this is why developers/publishers aim at them. I'm not saying it is okay but it is what it is, and nextgen it will likely be different again.
Nevertheless I doubt the Kinect announcement was the big suprise. Even Bethesda should know this would disappoint their fans. Especially since 'fans' are one step above 'hardcoe gamers' and on here they are almost as likely to have a PC as a X360. An announcement of an announcement isn't something most hardcoe gamers pay attention to, only fans do that. So I'm still expecting an announcement, same for Rage.