Would a modern day Gamecube succeed?

[HappySqurriel]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Um...what? When I was very young Duke Nukem, Splatter House, Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, Conker, Doom were all beyond my reach and in those days those were classic games. Once Nintendo Sony lost their third party strangle hold and Sony got it their mature titles were bare bones. I managed to get around my parents to play certain games, but in my house they were off limits. In the 80's and 90's videogames were percieved to be for kids because Sega and Nintendo marketed them to be for children. Adults played by association and with Nintendo and Sega it is still the case. Sony came in and said adults can game too making and acquiring games adults can play as well as children. In the 90's the average age of the gamer had to be from child to teen, today its adults. Segas major association was with arcade gamers with its first party and with Nintendo it was home exclusivity save for games like Street Fighter and Killer Instinct. 

Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper and Ratchet and Clank are Pixar movies in games, Sony has had that covered since th early 2000's and anyone who has played them knows it. Nintendo has games that would be better associated with Disney characters. 

Dramas require the best acting, yes, but Action movies make great amounts of money, especially in the 80's and 90's where building memorable characters was what mattered. Mature movies can span all these genres, they just have the age requirement which is 17+ when you pay for admission in America. The movie depends on the actors, script and director and mature films can be great. This is as far as I will speak about action movies. 300? Natural Born killers? The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Hannibal? Saving Private Ryan? The Godfather? Scarface? Kill Bill? Mature does not mean bad acting, if anything you need to be good to be convincing you need to be a very good actor to pull off action/killing/dramatic scenes if they are all included in one movie. 

I was 12 years old when the SNES launched, and a teenager when all of those games were released ...

Now, I never meant to say that there were no go Mature games or R rated movies; just that there is a different perspective on what accounts for maturity at different ages, and there is a lot of clever marketing happening. A company like Disney knows that adults pay for and go to movies with their children so they actually put a lot of effort into producing content that appeals to adults; and a good example of this is Wreck-it-Ralph. In contrast, the studio behind The Texas Chansaw Massacre 3D knows that the bulk of their audience isn't intelligent, mature adults so they don't bother creating content that appeals to them.

Videogames are both different and the same ... The high end western studios are trying to produce adult content, but many of studios below that are appealing to the lowest common denominator; and using excessive violence and sex to drive sales primarily from teenagers and children.