Have none of you ever bought a Nintendo system? I mean NES, SNES, N64, any Game boy system, Gamecube and now Wii, there have NEVER been more then a handful of mature titles on any of them. Yes there was Mortal Kombat on the SNES (eventually...the first few incarnations Nintendo censored), there was Conkers bad fur day on the N64 and a handful of other titles and there were a few Zombie games on the Gamecube but there has never been much mature content at all on any Nintendo systems ever. Sony, Sega and Microsoft systems all got more mature content in a year then Nintendo systems got in a generation.
As to why that is, mature content is never the huge seller on the Nintendo systems it is on the other systems. I bet you if Manhunt 2 had been for the 360 and PS3 it would have sold far better. Manhunt 1 on the PS2 sold over a million copies while Manhunt 2 struggled to hit 200k on the Wii for instance. If you look at all the big movers for Nintendo systems over the years very very few of them are adult oriented games. On the other hand most of the big MS and Sony sellers have been either geared towards adults (Gran Turismo series for example) or had a lot of mature content (Halo, GTA, Call of Duty ect).
Yes there are exceptions like Resident Evil 4 where violent games sold well on Nintendo systems, but even in the case of RE4 the PS2 version, released LONG after the Gamecube version, sold twice as well.
Some will say Metroid Prime and a few others should count as adult oriented, but in terms of almost everything except for the idea that both include shooting a gun metroid is night and day different from a game like Gears of War or GTA.
I think its a combo of A) most people who like mature games have learned to either not buy Nintendo systems or only to buy them as a secondary system for non adult games (Mario Kart, Smash Bros) which are fun and Nintendo friendly and B) developers have looked at Nintendo numbers on violent games and spent their time developing for the platforms on which those games can sell (360 and PS3) instead of on the platform where modest sales are the best outcome (the Wii or the Gamecube last gen).
There's a lot of reasons people like Nintendo systems, their adult game collections is not one of them.
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