Survey shows age and gender stats of popular game series in Japan

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JackHandy said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Smartphone games, mostly.

I mean, I have a nephew who never had a console or a computer and tried to play a game on my Switch, namely Dragon Quest Builders. He couldn't even get out of the cave where you're starting the game. That was already too complicated for him, moving camera and character was simply too much. I then tried Super Mario Bros 3 on the NSO and that went slightly better, though he still lost all his lives in the first level.

Smartphone games are much more simplistic for the most part, so much so that kids who only grew up with them get confused with control schemes of modern or even older games. Also, they're designed to be much more gratifying and as a result, since console/PC games generally lack this, he got bored almost instantly because it lacks the gratification.

Only things he's playing on my Switch now are Snipperclips and Smash, where he's surprisingly adept considering the problems mentioned above.

Perhaps you should introduce him to Mario Kart World. Not much to knock-out mode. Steer kart, hold gas, throw items at people. Even if he sucks at it, he'll probably have fun. And with auto-steer on, it's less likely he'll go sightseeing lol You might even have some luck starting him in free roam, you know, to let him get familiar with the mechanics etc.

I did Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Had to put the Antenna on him because he was constantly driving off edges of the track, though he has gotten somewhat better by now. Which means he doesn't always finish dead last anymore but he still only rarely wins a race against the CPU at 50cc.

Ironically his sister, who isn't gaming on her phone much, generally outraces her little brother pretty much all the time even though he had already several hours of playtime before they raced against each other at first. Which probably shows that the lack of influence of phone games had a positive effect when it came to console games.