Fusioncode said:
First time I've heard someone call Mario Kart niche |
Well Nintendo in general is still pretty niche, sticking to their roots with the original video game playing target audience while everyone else is busy trying to make realistic reality simulators and cater to the mainstream.
The fun I have playing Borderlands is much different than the fun I have playing Nintendo games.
The Nintendo games remind me of NES, SNES , just pure no excuses fun, and why I started playing video games in the first place.
Nintendo's market is the people today who would have bought a NES, whereas your typical flavor of the month realistic online shooter player would have ignored NES as a nerdy kids toy and only plays video games now because they are cool. But only cool mature games of course.
Hard to explain, it's just different...like gamers vs casuals.
In that context yeah Nintendo games as a whole are niche. Your average I have every version of call of duty player today (eg 90% of the market) would not buy Mario kart or anything that might be associated with "kiddy".
