I do not like disagreeing with you, but your opinion is generally not the same as mine. I'm not trying to provocate by saying something completely different.

I wouldn't call myself a mainstream gamer - I still enjoy playing the Commander Keen series, and the only recent games I own are XIII and Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, in fact I like older games more than newer games: advertising doesn't really influence me either.
I do not really understand what you mean with your last sentence, because I never said nobody played Megaman or Sonic, I said I didn't know about their communities. Just like the Megaman community probably doesn't know about us.