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oniyide on 05 December 2015
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Volterra_90 said:
S.Peelman said:

Here's an anecdote of my experience yesterday, because why not. Unrelated to the rest of the thread but whatever, I don't share the same sentiments as OP anyway, or at least, I don't actually care. But I digress.

Continuing on, I know that's what the usual conclusion of people is; Nintendo is for kids, the others for 'mature' people, but yesterday I feel like it was the opposite. I was in a game store casually browsing all the shelves, when a ten(-ish) year old girl with her mom walked in. Her mom was like: "Look, Super Mario Maker, you can make your own Mario game with this." The child said: "But it's for Wii U, I only have a regular Wii." Mom responded: "Oh, so do you then want a Wii U or an XBox in your room?" The child said after some hesitation: "Uhm, the XBox."

Moments later, a group of 20-something year old guys walk in. At a glance you could even say they were 'dudebros'. One of them was like: "Hey, Super Mario Maker!" While another responded: "That's actually pretty damn cool yo." [sic]

None of these people actually bought anything one way or another though, and the industry, for a day, lost five customers...

Yeah, I think that now the Nintendo fandom is crowded by people who start playing Nintendo games as a child. That 20+, 30+ old demography. There's no data about that, but I'm almost certain about it. Kids and teenagers nowadays were born in an age where the coolest and more popular games are, probably, FPS like CoD and Battlefront, sandbox like GTA... There's nothing wrong about them, they just don't fit in what Nintendo does. When I was a kid, the coolest thing to do was playing Pokemon in the playground with my friends. Now, I work in a school, and I can assure you that I've never seen kids proudly talking about the latest Pokemon, for example. But I listened to an inmense bunch of kids "meeting" (each one in his own house) to play CoD. I think Nintendo should market its games to that people, people who were born with their games and enjoyed them and look for the nostalgia factor. The most social aspect of gaming is lost. 


How long can that last though? Eventually those people are going to get an age where there nto even going to be able to play games anymore.