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Gamerace on 20 March 2013
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pokoko said:
Gamerace said:

 To me, the type of games on 360/PS3 - violent, movie-like games that require long play sessions are aimed at the pre-teen market who think anything violent is cool and have endless free time to waste playing games.  

Absolutely.  Excuse me, I need to go shoot up some peeps on Journey, then get in some violent, movie-like action on Unfinished Swan, Gran Turismo, Disgaea 4, and Portal 2.

Ah, the self-serving generalization.  Always so much fun.

Personally, I think it's clear that the average user of a Nintendo system is probably younger than the average user of a Sony or Microsoft system.  The bigger questions should be, why are some Nintendo fans defensive about that?  Why would that be a negative thing?  Nintendo themselves targets parents and the ideal of making their games kid-friendly.  Is it any wonder that they then attract kids?

As far as the actual range, though, that's probably much the same for all consoles.  Parents who play videogames will buy the systems they want to play on, which means that kids can grow up with any of the consoles.  Adults will play on whatever attracts them the most and has the genres they like best, which obviously varies greatly.  Anyone pretending that they are "more adult" because of the genre they prefer is deluding themselves in a very sad way.



Your point is absolutely right and I'm not trying to imply there aren't great games on other consoles for mature (mature being looking for something more sophisticated not more violent as the game industry defines it) audiences. I'm sure I'd enjoy Journey, Unfinished Swan and Sam & Max 3 if I had a PS3, along with a lot of other games (GT isn't my cup of tea and I didn't get into Portal). I do have a 360 as well. However, people who appreciate those types of games probably aren't the ones saying Nintendo is only for kids. It's more (in my experience) the pre-teen and young adults who play CoD/GTA who are making those judgment calls. As I point out myself, their own systems DO have similar games but they either ignore that or exclude them because they're on a 'cool' system just as they ignore the 'M' rated games on Nintendo systems. It's a matter of willful blindness. People should just play whatever games/systems appeal to them (and in general this is what 90% of the world does) without casting judgement.