"IGN: Rated M for must have." Guess Mature games really are for the kids.

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Kenryoku_Maxis said:

16-bit gamer said:
It has nothing to do with kids liking blood gore and guts..it has to do with kids wanting to feel grown up and "cool"

This has always been it.  Even back on the NES and Atari.  The incorrect assumption MS and Sony made was that, since gamers from those days have 'grown up' (are between 18-25 now), that the largest amount of game purchasers were in that age group.  Instead, as they've seen, the 'Mature' audiance is fickle, and will sooner buy a copy of Halo 3 as it will Metroid Prime 3 or GTAIV as it will Final Fantasy IV DS.

All the while bashing 'casual' games.

 

And after all the old fellows buy their GTA's and Halo's the kids start wanting them, because they're mature and older people like them :P