Quote of the day: True gamers 'play everything'

Oscar Gomez was just one of the devoted game fans who camped out in front of electronics stores early Tuesday morning awaiting the arrival of Microsoft's Xbox 360. And he's an unlikely Microsoft customer in that he works at the PlayStation store in downtown San Francisco's Sony Metreon.

"You can't be a true gamer unless you play everything," said Gomez, 23, in front of a San Francisco Best Buy store. "Besides, I'm only getting this to hold me over until PS3 (Sony's next game console) comes out next spring." Click here for full story.

[Christopher Hall]

Oscar doesn't sound like a true gamer to me

Because true gamers don't get any one thing to "hold off" until any other thing. You buy to play; the brand is irrelevant.

[gotkube]

TRUE gamers...

Seems to me that the 'true' gamer can easily distinquish crap, from quality. Out of the 360's so-called 'wonderful' launch title lineup, there is only ONE title that even remotely appeals to me: Ridge Racer 6. Egads! My answer wasn't PGR3! Sacrilege!
Sorry, but having made gaming a lifestyle since the Atari 2600, I like to consider myself a 'true' gamer.

[J_Satch]

What a dork...

I don't even own a console game system but ask my wife if the time I spend on my pc EVERY day qualifies me as a true gamer. LOL

[DubRock]

TRUE gamers.....

.....are dorks.

[Earl Benser]

Let the gamers....

.... do their 'thing'. The rest of us have to do the important stuff.

[dysonl]

True Idiot

If "true" gamer means that you had to own an N-Gage or the Sega 32X, then I'd prefer not to be called a true gamer. Because that would mean true gamers equal to impulsive and undiscriminating consumers - the lowly slaves of a society of consumption.

In my book, true gamer and discriminating gamer are not mutually exclusive.