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jarrod on 11 July 2010
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Hynad said:
Saruk said:
Rockyb said:

well, sony is right     before the ps1  only  kids played videogames ,    lol fanboys obviously wont accept it


Yeah sure, you do know that the Gameboy was also targeted at adults right?

And about 40% of the users in the NES/SNES Generation were adults, in-case you didn't know this was before the PS1.

Yeah, that's probably why they named the console Gameboy.

GameBoy's two initial targets in Japan were actually school children and traveling businessmen.  In fact, the reasoning for making the platform region free was so that professionals traveling overseas could buy a game anywhere and still play it on their Japanese system.

Funny enough, the Famicom originally featured dual advertising as well, targeting both children and adults.  Nintendo's original plans for the device were all encompassing and pretty progressive for the 1980s, as a living room entertainment device that the kids could play games on, mom could download recipes on or dad could check stocks on.  A lot of what you find in Wii and DS in terms of wider reach and application (Wii no Ma, Cooking Navi, etc) has it's real roots in the Famicom.