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"I need", "I want" coming from gamers who are 25-40 years old isn't really the market Nintendo should be listening to either (hate to say it). They need to get a new generation of kids otherwise they will not have a foundation for their business for the next 10-20 years. They need to take more chances on new IP like Splatoon, but the IP must be marketable. A Nintendo that's basically stuck selling to 40-year-old men who are trying to relive their youth is a bit of a sad prospect, they need a new generation of fans. In the same way you could say that The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty & The Beast, and The Lion King brought Disney a new generation of fans. |
When I was young in the 80s, parents didn't play games, they were buying it for their kids who were saying "I want a Nes, all my friends as one, me too, please , please!!!". Now I am a parent and I still love nintendo game, but kids now want something else, they want XbO or PS4, not nintendo. As a Company you need to go where the money is and it is not in the kids hands, it is in their parent's hands. Sell something that the parents wants also and you will reach their kids. So give me a console I want and I will gladly pay for a Nintendo game for my kids. Give me something that is out of date again (even if there are goods games for WiiU out there) and I will buy a plastation and you know what? My kids will be happy to have the same console as their friends and won't care for Nintendo games that they have never seen or played. Reaching new generation of gamers goes through the parents now, it not like before, parents are gamers too these days and the ones who pays in the end. By the way, 40 year old men always try to relive their youth, it is in the nature of life and they have money at that age to do it...
