Wired: Nintendo Switch ain't for mom and pop - It's for die-hard fans

[S.T.A.G.E.]

Hynad said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

I should've been specific. Kids dont give a damn about Nintendo home consoles. They want GTA and COD. Nntendo's core market (whom by now are mostly grown up) focused on their exclusives on consoles is dwindling as the generations pass. They create their consoles for themselves which alienates third parties who made games to secure profit for themselves on reliable partners hardware which requires minimal changes. Nintendo forgot since the 90's that he who holds the third party holds the power. Look at Microoft...if they had no third party, they would barely have any excclusives to show at all and its massively covered up by that. The little kids were all over the 360 last gen too.

My 10 years old son (and his brother in law, I should mention) doesn't give a crap about GTA. He's all about Minecraft and Pokemon. So I'll take my personal objective obeservation over your "passing what I expect as what everyone expect claims. 

Wait...you're using two people as objective evidence? Without outside influence that might be their subjective taste. I mean, even I could agree that Nintendo games are artiscially geared towards children but it doesnt mean childrens choices arent diverse. I was the same but I had massive parental supervision over how i gamed the majority of the time, so I grew up on primarily Nintendo first party in the 90's. Its not completely that way anymore as kids have more access to their own choices digitally and also because a lot of parents have less time with their kids.  My point is that the majority of Nintendo die hards are adults at this point in time. The people who sold out the switch within short time and owned the Wii U. The majority of Pokemon players are adults. I can agree that kids have a greater share of the handheld and portable/ mobile market but. Ive seen more kids than I can count convince their parents to buy them games on the Xbox 360 and Playsation that based on age they shouldnt be playing (usually the parents didnt know what the games were and sought council and it was left up to their decision). Most of those games are generally found off of a Nintendo console. I will agree that Minecraft is played alot by kids and teens though. Some of the funniest videos on Youtube are little kids getting trolled on COD as well. COD last gen was known for little racist kids on the 360. It was rampant. 

 

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