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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - WiiU eShop Demographics: 94% above 18, only 7% female

Nintendo had a presentation in Unity 2014 last week. There was some interesting info shared on demographics.

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7% female? There's something very wrong with this poll and that figure suggests that.



 

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How does it compare to the 3DS eShop demographics?



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Conegamer said:
7% female? There's something very wrong with this poll and that figure suggests that.

There's the reason why the WiiU has been selling low. They need female games!

Wii was around 50%?



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TomaTito said:
Conegamer said:
7% female? There's something very wrong with this poll and that figure suggests that.

There's the reason why the WiiU has been selling low. They need female games!

Wii was around 50%?

And Wii U will be more than 7%, for sure.



 

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Conegamer said:
TomaTito said:
Conegamer said:
7% female? There's something very wrong with this poll and that figure suggests that.

There's the reason why the WiiU has been selling low. They need female games!

Wii was around 50%?

And Wii U will be more than 7%, for sure.

These are most likely NNID accounts who buy stuff in the WiiU eShop.
So it's mainly the male NNID's who buys the stuff

BTW this came from NoA themselves during the Unity conf.



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TomaTito said:
Conegamer said:
7% female? There's something very wrong with this poll and that figure suggests that.

There's the reason why the WiiU has been selling low. They need female games!

Wii was around 50%?


No, they need kids again. The NES and SNES were kid owned consoles. I was one of those kids back in the 80's. We didn't want iPhones, we wanted an NES for Christmas. Nintendo needs to figure out a way to be the IT thing again for kids. If they do that, they'll be gold.



TomaTito said:
Conegamer said:
7% female? There's something very wrong with this poll and that figure suggests that.

There's the reason why the WiiU has been selling low. They need female games!

Wii was around 50%?


I don't know if many women would call themselves 'core' gamers. I think many would call themselves casual gamers and many of the casuals have long since departed Nintendo for smart phone and tablet games. So no, I don't think they need "female games", whatever that means.



prayformojo said:

No, they need kids again. The NES and SNES were kid owned consoles. I was one of those kids back in the 80's. We didn't want iPhones, we wanted an NES for Christmas. Nintendo needs to figure out a way to be the IT thing again for kids. If they do that, they'll be gold.

I agree with you there. So many kids playing with iPads now.



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prayformojo said:
TomaTito said:
Conegamer said:
7% female? There's something very wrong with this poll and that figure suggests that.

There's the reason why the WiiU has been selling low. They need female games!

Wii was around 50%?


No, they need kids again. The NES and SNES were kid owned consoles. I was one of those kids back in the 80's. We didn't want iPhones, we wanted an NES for Christmas. Nintendo needs to figure out a way to be the IT thing again for kids. If they do that, they'll be gold.


Hate to point out the obvious but iPhones didn't exist then. They do now and many kids want those iPhones for Angry Birds tripe.