I was never really Nintendo gamer (I firmly fall into Zelda+MK stereotype), but I've gladly introduced my kids to Nintendo as soon as they were old enough to handle gamepads. Now (at ages 8 and 6) they are huge Zelda fans, love Mario, Kirby and Yoshi and lot of other Nintendo games and I don't see that changing any time soon.
Of course, as someone whose gaming diet has, for past 35 or so years, predominantly consisted of mostly 3rd party titles, I try to introduce them to as much variety as possible (they've just finished Portal 1). Honestly, I'm not sure what will happen when they hit 13-14, if games like Zelda will be still interesting enough for them or the allure of forbidden fruit will be too much - generally, I think this is Nintendo's biggest problem, how to keep those kids that turned teen.







