Nintendo Releases Some Interesting Demographic (Adults > Kids) And Software Breakdowns

[Norion]

Mnementh said:

Norion said:

Something this shows is there are still not that many people above the age of 50 into video games but by the 2040's all age brackets except 70+ will have grown up with them so that'll change before much longer. Also kids are now pretty likely to grow up having at least one parent into video games which will help foster connections.

Doing stuff the parents do is soooo uncool, so kids in the future will read a book while their parents want to play Mario Kart with them.

Or instead of games like Mario Kart, visual novels will become a massive phenomenon among the youth.

RolStoppable said:

Norion said:

Something this shows is there are still not that many people above the age of 50 into video games but by the 2040's all age brackets except 70+ will have grown up with them so that'll change before much longer. Also kids are now pretty likely to grow up having at least one parent into video games which will help foster connections.

Indeed, there's nothing special to this because it's actually just natural progression. People who grew up with the NES are around 40 years old now, the Atari generation isn't much older.

During the GameCube era, it was already the case that the average age of GC owners was above 20, at least after the first couple of years or so when such a stat was published by Nintendo. The prevailing thought that Nintendo console owners are mostly kids is nothing more than a result of PR work of Nintendo's competitors against Nintendo. Likewise, the idea that Sega and later Sony got older people to play video games is an illusion because they were just taking from the pools of gamers that were already created by Atari and Nintendo before, and these gamers were going to get older just like everyone else.

As for the software breakdown, there's nothing special about it either. A growing number of third parties putting more effort into their Switch games results in higher sales for third party games. It's not a revelation that quality and marketing matter for game sales.

The release date of the NES does coincide well with the rapid decline that begins in the early 40's. Atari had impact but Nintendo really did a ton for getting Americans and Japanese people into video games back in the 80's.