What Can Nintendo Do To Appeal To The West?

[Mnementh]

GTAexpert said:

Mnementh said:

GTAexpert said:

 

Nintendo games don't provide more competition, they are very different compared to third-party games. MS/Sony games appeal more to many gamers, and Nintendo gamers don't like third-party games if they aren't Skylanders or Just Dance. That speaks a lot about the demographic.

Obviously Nintendo-gamers like Monster Hunter, Bravely Default and Youkai Watch from third parties. What does that say about the demographics?

Your list consists if Japanese-oriented games, while I'm talking about Western Nintendo gamers.

In general, Nintendo gamers don't like any game which is violent (COD, Darksiders, Assassin's Creed) or have any level of realism (Gran Turismo, The Sims).

The western Nintendo-gamers bought Bravely Default and Monster Hunter Tri sold pretty good in the west (>600K in the US and 400K in europe). This with near to no western advertisement. Youkai Watch isn't released in the West yet, but if we look at Pokemon we can safely conclude it will be as popular in the west as in japan. So western nintendo-gamers obviously like japanse-oriented games (something the PS2-gamer also liked, but obviously not the PS4-gamer).

As to violent- Bayonetta is well received in the west, as good as the first on PS3 and X360. So I don't see Nintendo-gamers shy away from violence. I don't surely know what you mean with level of realism, as GT and The Sims are both unrealistic games in a sense. You should elaborate this more.