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Ucell on 19 June 2014
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padib said:
Ucell said:

GTA V broke records, COD games sell extremely well, Titanfall sold very well. I could name you many more, but you seem to be unwilling to accept that the majority of gamers nowadays look for an experience in their games when they buy it for such a lot of money.

Gaming isn't a kids' hobby anymore like it was in the 80's when Intendo used to dominate. That has become very apparent.

What I'm trying to tell you is that there was a time when more than that type of game sold. There was a time when the PS2 was revered for the excellence of its JRPGs, fun and variety of games (I mentioned R&C, Crash, Parappa).

That is not the Sony of today, and part of the reason why I believe Nintendo is in a much better position to thrive.

This isn't about kids vs adults. It's about breadth of appeal vs narrowness of appeal.

The PS2 audience split between the PS3 and Xbox 360. The Sony of today is indeed not as dominant as they were with the PS2, but that's not due to lack of kids' games. Its because Xbox has strengthened itself a lot more now.

Nintendo's games with trheir breadth of appeal and great reviews and fanfare still don't make their consoles sell well when they are on their own. Many gamers ike me enjoy the adult, violent, atmospheric games of today and don't want to play Mario games. Nintendo consoles need to appeal to our kind of gamers because we are clearly many in number. That is all.