Why Is Nintendo Considered For Children?

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RolStoppable said:

fps_d0minat0r said:

tbh ive seen more people state their reason for playing nintendo games because they are not mature games than mature gamers saying they dont play nintendo games because they are cartoony.

Its become unthinkable for many to accept that mature rated games can simply be better than cartoony games (im not saying all are), and instead go around making excuses about how people have limited their content to just mature games.

and this goes back to the previous point I made, more mature gamers play cartoony games than kids play mature games. mature gamers ARE playing a wider range of games than kids, so its just a non issue which you are blowing out of proportion.

If some people like sales2099 dont feel nintendo offer similar content to that found in other games and therefore he does play then whats the problem with that? Its nintendo's fault for making too many of the same type of games. They are the ones limiting their own appeal. Not everyone HAS to like cartoony games, and the reason isnt because they are cartoony, its often related with the satisfaction gained from the game. It doesnt take very long before jumping on an enemy to watch them disappear gets boring, eventually people seek games where there are better animations, more interactivity, and so on.

The problem with sales2099 would be what I talked about in the preceding paragraph; and GeneralMLD is, bluntly put, an immature fanboy. The desire to be grown up directly contradicted by his own actions.

It's exactly this kind of people who are exploited by Nintendo's competitors and will gladly pass on that marketing message to others, thus continuously reinforcing the notion that Nintendo is for children, and children only. Or if Nintendo breaks out of this endless cycle with systems like the Wii and DS, all the adults who play Nintendo will be labeled as casuals in order to maintain the message that people who game on PlayStation or Xbox are superior. Because at its core it's all about portraying Nintendo as an inferior option. Sega, Sony, Microsoft, they all did it; and easily manipulated people ran with it. Back then those Sega gamers deprived themselves of the SNES goodness, nowadays those people play Sony's Nintendo game knockoffs and Kinect titles while telling themselves that those games are better than what Nintendo offers. Or they really only play M-rated stuff, plus the occasional sports and racing game.

Even if we assume a scenario where all mature and cartoony games are equal, why shouldnt anyone buy a system which has a balance of both, and instead buy a system which does cartoony games well, but has the worse versions of multiplatform mature games (if it ever does get a port)?

It still wouldnt add up.