| Soundwave said: I've had kids tell me straight up they like the iPad better than the 3DS, lol. My nephew and nieces when they come over, they want to play on the iPad first and foremost, they like it better than the 3DS. The games are easier to play and the larger display makes it easy to point and touch for kids. And when they're bored of the games they just switch on over to watching cartoons on it, it's an ideal device for a wide variety of media consumption. I don't really think these "poor kids" are being held hostage and being forced to play these tablet/phone games, lol. They genuinely like them. I know "hardcore game" fans cannot grasp this, but I really think it is the truth. We're the ones living in a bubble, not them. Most kids do not give a crap about the lack of buttons, if anything it makes the tablet more friendly and more approachable. When they get older and want "deeper" games, then they start to get into wanting a Playstation or XBox, as invariably kids get closer to 6th/7th grade, being "cool" becomes a life obsession. 8th gen ports? I think they need 9th gen ports. As in Dragon Quest XI, not just X. Kingdom Hearts III. But what I think we'll actually get is another ho-hum Nintendo product, probably underpowered. They'll bundle it with Amiibo and try to sell it as a toy device. It'll have shared games, it'll do OK on the market nothing mind blowing. They would need another Wiimote type miracle revolution to significantly alter their fate now I think. The games will be fun though as they always are on every Nintendo hardware. When I was growing up, Mickey Mouse was basically irrelevant to me, Disney was largely as a whole irrelevant. Super Mario and Bart Simpson and the Ninja Turtles were the hot new thing then, no kid gave a crap about Mickey Mouse. It wasn't until Disney made The Little Mermaid that that started a new reinvention for the company that led to things like Aladdin and The Lion King and then they were relevant again, but not because of Mickey Mouse. If I'm a parent as well, I'm not stupid, I'm not buying them that Nintendo handheld. Why should I? So I can then be on the hook for my crying kids asking for $30-$40 games? Nah. Just giving them the old iPad and letting them play free games sounds a whole lot better. The kids aren't complaining and neither are the parents and I just don't think Nintendo has an answer to this. |
And I've had kids tell me they like the 3DS better than their smart phones. I work at a summer camp. Your anecdotes don't mean anything. I never said they were being held hostage or that they were "poor kids." I never said they didn't genuinely like them. I said that they aren't actively choosing the platform based off what they'd prefer, but what their parents give them. I loved playing online browser games on my computer when I was a kid. That's what I played the most, far more than superior console games or handheld games. I don't think I had a "poor" gaming upbringing because of that, and I don't think kids who only have access to tablets and phones have it either. Doesn't change the fact that that's the only reason kids play those platforms more. Not because they like them more, but because parents do.
And you're right. Parents aren't stupid. They are giving their kids more cheaper mobile experiences rather than handheld and console games. Doesn't mean either market is diminishing. There's still plenty of parents that definitely feel that a dedicated gaming toy is the right path to take, as proven by the wonderful 3DS sales. Nintendo doesn't need to kill smartphones. They just need to justify a parent buying both, which they already do fantastically now. They'll do even better with the NX and their new smart consoles.
DQ11 and KH3 are 8th gen games, not 9th gen. Don't know what you're on about there, so I'll just skip.
The unified platform is the "Wii like miracle." Not merely because the games will work across two platforms, but because of the antire modernization of the console concept with these "smart consoles." I think it'll definitely do better than the 3DS. Significantly so. And it'll also have an everlasting lifespan thanks to the way they'll make fraquent hardware upgrades much like Apple does with its iphones.
I don't know what alien era you grew up in, but I grew up in the crux of movies like TLK and TLM, and Mickey Mouse was still king of them all. He didn't need to be in the newest Disney movie to be, and I can't remember a single day in my entire life where he wasn't the king of relevancy, especially in my childhood. Everyone knows and loves Mickey.
