The hardcore abandoned Nintendo; Nintendo didn't abandon the hardcore

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arcaneguyver said:
LOL, all this quibbling over who is hardcore. The sooner Nintendo stops wasting time catering to teens & adults completely the better - they purely need to maintain their steel grip on the family-friendly video games market space.

What grip? Most kids want a PS4 or XBox 1, even moreso than adults. By the time kids, especially boys get to age 9/10 they start to obsess over having whatever the "older kids" have. They want Call of Duty, not Mario. 

Nintendo hasn't marketed to teens since like the late 1990s/early 2000s.