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S.T.A.G.E. on 24 November 2012
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Cobretti2 said:

S.T.A.G.E. just because your mum baught you a nintendo console when you were 4 doesn't mean your next door neighbours mother didn't buy them a playsation (assuming a playstion was around when you were four).

I remember when Zelda launched on WIi and Gamecube a woman come into EB games and said to the guuy can I please get zelda for my son's playsation.

Now unless her sun is a lazy fuck teen, I am pretty sure the kid was releatively young and owned a playstation 2.

Another example is Halo 4 launch, Go on facebook to EB Games AUS page and look at all the halo 4 paunch photos they did in front of the green screen. More than half the photos show where kids who haven't even or bearly hit puberty with thier parents picking up Halo 4 at midnight launch.

The fact is you jsut want to see what you want to see. Just because a few of your mates only game on X, Y or Z doesn't auotmiatically make a video game console not a toy for kids/teens.

Look at WiiU videos on youtube, half the guys posting videos are in their 30s.

I bet if you went out on a street and surveyed mothers what they think and xbox or ps3 was, they would say a toy for my kids. I bet if you served some young adults not wanting to look dorky in front of their friends they would make the same call as you have on what is a kids toy and what isn't.


Im in my 20's but my mother thinks like many other mothers in America born in her time period (shes not American though). Shes not tech savy and when I started to majorly get into videogames she thought it was trivial when it was her who bought me my first game console without me asking for it. I guess she was just following the holiday trends like mothers bought the Kinect because of Oprah or something. I just spoke to her and she said basically this "I thought the Nintendo was just a simple game or toy that you could play with when you were bored, I didnt know it would turn into this huge piece of electronics that does everything including playing movies. I haven't seen you buy a legititamate DVD player in years, so It guess you saved money." If I told her that huge rift was because of Sony she wouldn't know the difference, she just looks at whats hot on tv and she still does today.