This is up there with the dumbest threads ever.

I feel more comfortable playing Nintendo games than games where you kill people violently like Call of Duty, Mortal Kombat, God of War.

Okay, to me Nintendo games are like Pixar movies - fun for everybody whether a kid or an adult.

Many HD games (I'm talking about the violent ones) are like Michael Bay movies - appealing to teenage boys.

If I'm an adult male I would be more embarrassed to be watching a Michael Bay movie than a Pixar movie.

That's not necessarily true.

who wants to play a wii pii pii game anyways >_>?

Of course.

Nintendo is living in the past.

ok guys, before things get out of hand;

Looking at all the consoles including Wii, we  are looking at different consoles that have different fans. might be looking at  different groups. the first is age ofcoz, the target audience is different for Sony and Nintendo for example, as both have stated in the past. I think we're not only looking at different fans, we're looking at different fans that value very different things too.

How so? I actually found a lot of the replies incredibly interesting. A fair bit of people are embarassed of doing something that there logically is no reason to be embarassed about. A vast amount of people play and enjoy Mario games - heck, it looks to be well over 1/4 people looking at the franchises' sales this gen. So why are we embarased about it? Lynx idea that it comes from Sony/Sega (and to an extent, others) marketing is intriguing. Even people who love Nintendo games have, by advertisements, been lead to believe that they shouldn't.

I'm pretty bloody amazed that I've actually been fooled by those advertisements. From a psychology viewpoint, it's incredibly interesting.

But sure, go ahead. Feel free to call it "one of the dumbest threads ever", because frankly, you'll just fall into the (surprisingly large) group of silly replies that I really should ignore.

This thread is also interesting on another level, as it nicely sums up the reasons I semi-stopped posting here.

No, But for a whole other reason. I only felt like I shouldn't buy a certain game only once and that waaaay back in 08 at july when I wanted to get super mario galaxy. After that not really. But I only play super mario bros and zelda outside my home on my DS also kirby too. I just learned that the real mature person is the one who can be brave enough to play those games in public and have no fear those are the real mature person that and I can pwn people in arguements on why mature games aren't the best because they are clueless

Sorry I just dont get why anyone would ever be ashamed of buying a game that they really enjoy. Yea there is the marketing and the peer pressure from friends and stuff. I am not denying that, but if that is keeping somone from buying a video game I am a bit lost for words. Hell, I dont even know why it matters. If its a friend Id rather them like me for who I am, what I like etc. If I have to tip toe around silly things like video games they are not my friend at all.