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I entirely do not mean to get into a semantic argument about what a true or real gamer is.
I meant it as in people who consume, ie play, video games, as a market demographic.
That being said, sure, I agree that the vast majority of people who play games on a console or pc are not in some kind of no preorders community.
Personally, I just get cognitive whiplash from the difference between I guess the youtubers I follow to review games, the general sentiment of much of the community here on lemmy... and then the entire rest of the gaming world.
It is quite annoying and sad to watch hype train after hype train crash into the station in a flaming inferno after decades of watching people generally fall for very similar marketing gimmicks and absurd promises.