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another closed minded hater just spewing nonsense. the average Nintendo game (at least fully realized adventure or platformer game by Nintendo) is harder than what other companies are putting out
things like Uncharted or Grand Theft Auto are not actually hard per say.
and if you don't already recognize that Nintendo already DOES appeal to a lot of 30 year olds then you're out of touch. who the hell do you think is buying all of those 3DS's and Pokemon games? Probably MORE 20-40 year olds are than kids requesting them.
I do think it would be nice to see some IPs from Nintendo that are a bit more adult related and aimed, maybe some horror and adventure with more serious tones. however this strange behavior that Nintendo needs anything huge in the department of change to succeed is just silly
the Wii U didn't fail because people didn't like the games, it failed because it was named "Wii" and had no similar motion controls to its predecessor, confusing casuals. The marketing was awful. it also failed because it was relatively speaking expensive for a Nintendo system, and it failed because it had a big awkward tablet controller which is not accessible to casual fans and even SOME Nintendo fans (like me).
their last console that was more organized in terms of marketing and realization, i.e. the Wii, was a massive success. similarly their last handheld which was straight forward and accessible was also pretty successful. 60 million 3DS's is nothing to scoff about, especially when its older than the Xone yet outselling it weekly to this day on average
Nintendo will undoubtedly succeed with the NX as long as it is marketed clearly and straight forward (no Wii name obviously), has a fairly accessible and regular controller, and either has some sort of large software library (combined handheld / home console?) OR has relatively good specs
the Nintendo fanbase is quite large and I would argue that virtually all casual gamers are fairly open minded to playing Nintendo games because the vast majority of people alive today from ages 10-50 have played a Mario or Zelda game at some point in their lives
at any rate the naysayers are hilarious. Nintendo made about the worst decisions they could possibly with the Wii U and yet have not really lost much of any money at all. I mean for gods sake they didn't even bother to change the price of the system, thats how unconcerned they were with building momentum at later points. My point being that Nintendo is extremely aware (as they should be) that they have a big fanbase and that casuals WILL buy their system where and when they get it right. No need to panic.
I also can't emphasize enough that simply releasing their next home console with something like a solid home console Pokemon game OR a Mario Galaxy title would gurantee great sales out of the gate.
the thread is humorous though considering that NIntendo's fanbase arguably compromises MOSTLY of 30 year olds who are either buying their systems for themselves OR buying Nintendo's systems for their kids (sort of for themselves)
