Why is "Nintendo" used as a qualifier for games?

[Zekkyou]

the_dengle said:

Zekkyou said:

The generalizations themselves are somewhat small minded, but they're often useful for simplify conversations. Their use is also backed by how many commonly people generalize their own tastes (in part because we enforce our own biases), such as "I dislike [Sony/Nintendo/MS] games".

I have never seen anyone claim to like or dislike Sony or MS games as a group. I can't imagine anyone would want to group Halo and Kinect Sports into the same category, which is why it's so baffling that people are willing to group Zelda and New Super Mario Bros together.

I've seen it plenty of times :p Of course, people usually make that generalization to enforce their own biases, rather than actually disliking a common theme about them.

Like i said though, generalizations can have exceptions. They can also encompass multiple unconditional perimeters (such as both "cartoony" games and "ones without a story", even if there are some examples that only fit one, the generalization still fits). For the sake of simplifying conversations, they're useful.

I saw someone the other day claim they always hated voice acting.