On the podcast a few weeks ago, Paul and I talked about the theory that different gaming communities were isolated from each other. Instead of “gamers” being a single amorphous mass, perhaps we’re really a dozen or so completely different hobbies that all happen to share a common set of hardware. Imagine if we took people that were into football, baseball, other football, lacrosse, rugby, and cricket, and acted like all of those people were into the same hobby. Maybe we’d call them “fielders” because all of their different games are played on a field.<\/p>\n
That would be silly, right? But maybe that’s what we’re doing with “gamers”.<\/p>\n
Now, the idea that gamers are broken into different silos is probably true to some degree. The difficult question is: What are the different silos, and to what degree are they isolated?<\/em><\/p>\n I was reminded of this yesterday when the new trailer for Battlefield 2042 came out…<\/p>\n
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