S.T.A.G.E., you need to get over this hang-up about being a "serious adult gamer." Just appreciate the diversity of video games.

Every post like the one I quoted insults thousands of grown-up video game fans who love Nintendo software.

If you dont know Microsofts primary market which is children and families you're lost. You might have grown up, but Nintendo will always stay behind to usher in a new era of kids into the industry. This is why Nintendos place can never be taken by Sony and Microsoft...remember that.

Is the area in bold a Freudian slip?

As of 2011, the average age of a video game player is 37. Only 18% of all video game players are under the age of 18.

Are you saying that all of those under-18 fans are playing on Nintendo systems? And the other "serious adult gamers" are playing software on Xbox and Playstation?

Not really a freudian slip, but a genuine mistake. Thanks for pointing it out though. The average age of the videogame player across all platforms is 37 if you want to be accurate. Again, Nintendos audience that they pay money to market to are children and families. If Nintendo wanted to pander to the casual audience again, they should've given them a console that gave them something that doesn't apply to what they alread have......which is an Ipad....with numerous gaming apps, its litle stylus and photoshop, and much....much more.

Yeah, they are making project cars. I don't know who lucid games are, so I can't really comment on that one. I'm not sure if arcade racers are the best bet, but I really can't remeber playing any of those, so I can't speak of experience when I talk about that. But as you said earlier, I too think that they should make an rpg, because I believe that an rpg is the best genre to choose if they want to cater to the nintendo fans and the self proclaimed "hardcore."

I agree with Veknoid here, I'm 23 and I still play Mario Kart and F-Zero.

Nintendo's always been a less competetive system, that's why there are no achievements/trophy's. You can pick up most Nintendo games, play it for X period of time, and put it down. There are a few excellent serious games on Nintendo consoles, typically RPG's, but even with Zelda, anyone can pick up the game and play.

A PGR style arcade game kind of suites Nintendo better then a SIM. Do you have to be a kid to like PGR? I think most people who don't obsess over video games like we do would find that a PGR esk game would be a great first adventure into racing games with real cars. After all, I think most people who play racing games are casual gamers because you can pick up the game, play for X many races, and still have a blast, or just race various cars head to head.


P.S. Wow, really, the average gamer is 37? That sounds a bit old, to be 37 that would mean the average gamer was 10 in 1986, when Video games just started to explode. Are you saying that gaming has attracted that many people from before the gaming boom to offset all the kids being born and growing up playing games?

Lucid Games is the Studio Bizzarre Creation employees created after Activision disolved them. They are essentially the bulk of people responsible for the PGR franchise. So they have a good history, and at the same time, are technically a new studio. So if they made exclusive games for Nintendo, it would give the impression that they always were a Nintendo exclusive studio.

Plus it would be Ironic, MS takes Rare, Nintendo takes Bizzarre.


An RPG would be a great game, but I think a good racer would help diversify their portfolio. Either way, if Nintendo makes a new racer/RPG (or both combined....... ) IP, I'll be happy.

I am not talking about you, because you make up a minority of gamers. Possibly the majority of early adopters were children and hardcore Nintendo fans. Lets see how Nintendo gets the attention of adults in the family. Nintendo knows they rarely will disappoint their hardcore, they just need to keep being themselves.

Simulation racer like Gran Turismo, Sega GT, and Forza Motorsport. I think Nintendo demoed something like this last year (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S05fWaaATU8 - yes) which looked pretty dang good.

If not, then a first person epic shooter that will bring in FPS fans.

Well let's agree to disagree. I think an arcade style game will appeal to adults who also like Nintendo more then a full pledge sim.