Quote Originally Posted by Azar View Post
I think that, considering that the majority of the gamer populace is 20s-30s, there are a whole lot of more "normal" guys out there that skew the scales away from nerd stereotypes. The kind of guys who buy Madden, Halo, and Call of Duty (I fall into the latter two category, anyway).
Absolutely, I was in line for Modern Warfare 2 at 8AM on the day it launched and the line of guys with me could have been your average mix of 20-30 year old males from Philadelphia.

I kind of feel like since the Playstation days "gamer" has come to represent nearly all males from 10-30 (maybe now it's even higher) it's just a nationally recognized past time instead of grouped in with the action-figure/board game industry. For that reason I don't feel the gamer stereotype has been relevant for more than a decade now.

All of my game purchases lately have been at Gamestop in Philly, and only a minority at any given time are white, much less nerds, so the "gamer" stereotype hasn't been something I've seen in a long time. I would say the most representation of that demographic probably happens on the PC and they all buy their games on Steam now, if they buy them at all.

I don't know, maybe it was just b/c you were waiting for New Super Mario Bros. Wii.