| HikenNoAce said: You're a smart one. Seriously, people need to stop revising history. During the NES/SNES era, console gaming was considered to be for kids. Arcades for nerds or geeks. Nowadays, you can hear anyone saying that they play games. |
You seem to be yapping on about that 'kid'-image Nintendo created.
Do you have any idea why that is? Any clue what happened for it to get that far? You should read up on some history yourself and start giving respect where respect is due.
Because I'm positive you won't actually read anything Nintendo related, here's a dumbed down lesson for you. Even if I'm probably just talking to a wall:
When third parties and Atari made so many low quality and bad games for the Atari 2600 that the industry collapsed because consumers were fed up, retailers did not want to stock anymore video-games or video-game related stuff on their store-shelves. A big problem for Nintendo, who saw an opportunity to expand into a rather large hole left by a lot of companies who left the industry altogether. Nintendo decided to take marketing of video-games into a different route. Instead of focussing on the 'nerdy' demographic or the tech-savy people like Atari and the other companies did during the what's now known as the 2nd generation of video-games, Nintendo came up with a way to market the new NES as a toy. Retailers were willing to sell something marketed as a toy. In a clever move, Nintendo created accessoiries to amplify that notion. Probably most famous, R.O.B. the robot. That's not a video-game, that's a toy with which you can play on your tv! Retailers would stock something like that. That's what saved the industry, that's why Nintendo got a 'kiddy'-image and more importantly, that's why you are able to play on your PlayStation today. A marketing technique that was born out of utter necessity.
