Veknoid_Outcast said:
Kasz216 said:
The funny part about the Nintendo adult/kids argument is...
the Wii was totally targeted at adults. That's where the whole big casual audience came from afterall.
In videogames things most people think are "targeted at adults" are really targeted at 14 year olds who want to be adults. While the things most peope think are targeted at kids, are actually targeted at adults.
What Nintendo gets is the Old CS Lewis Quote...
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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Thank you for this, Kasz. If I had my way, this quote would be plastered over the front page of VGChartz.
The two most disastrous conversations about video games are "hardcore vs. casual" and "mature vs. kiddie." They serve no purpose other than to compartmentalize and provoke. And they obscure much more meaningful conversations.
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He forgot to add that those adults were adults who weren't gamers but rather non-gamers who saw no reason in playing games because of its complexity. It was also a perk to get the family to game together. The PS3 has the oldest dedicated gaming crowd which is between their 13-40, then the 360.
