S.T.A.G.E. said:
Zekkyou said:
They definitely need to start targeting a larger audience. Right now they seem to make nothing other than family friendly games. Of course being family friendly has nothing to do with the quality of an individual game, but locking yourself into it does greatly reduce the diversity of the games you can make.
A lot of Sony's success came from their ability to produce games for both the family and the "mature" gamers (e.g. LBP and The Last of Us).
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Exactly. Nintendo also has an eye for the kids. If they want to find the kids in the new generation they can find them skipping over to the HD Twins because of the wide variety of third, second and third party content. They will need all of the second party that they can get to bolster their first party because this generation might be rather lonely for them, but they could take it to their competitors in the same way the N64 took it to the Playstation. I never knew that Sony was destroying them (aside from being a child) and I didn't care because the games were great. I noticed Nintendos dominance with the SNES though even as a very young child. All the cool games were there opposed to Sega who had the "cooler" games but lacked the third party.
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The thing is though the “kids” market has greatly changed. 12 year olds want to play Call of Duty as much as they want Pokemon. Kids are a lot more mature these days than they were in the 80’s and 90’s.
Nintendo have a shit ton of money sitting around in the bank. If they want to it’s perfectly within their capabilities to fund the development of more new IPs aimed at the older gamers. They could just as easily then buy the studios that work out well for them.
It’s what Sony did, and they seem to be doing pretty well with their first party :P
