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. |
@bolded, 360 being huge among kids/families was primarily do to things like the plastic instrument craze, Minecraft & Kinect. Minecraft can now be played on essentially every current gaming device and Kinect clearly has lost relevance in the transition fom 360 to XBO and the big instrument games like Rock Band & Guitar Hero have essentially died.
So far we haven't seen much from PS4/XBO to attract kids, families, casuals or females. Something like 75% of retail software sales on these devices consist of open-world action, online based shooters & annual sports titles which primarly attract teenage & adult males.
Obviously the teen/adult male demographic is a very large one for gaming but doubling down on a single demographic while almost neglecting everybody else is unlikely to increase the overall customer base and will lead to stagnation.
When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.
