I ask this as the Nintendo home console gamers I come across all seem to be older gamers, I know there's a lot on here and think kids tend to gravitate more towards playstation and xbox as they think it's cooler to play more violent games as they think it's mature, I know alot of kids own the 3ds as do adults but I'm talking more about nintys home consoles and think the core base comes from the nes and snes days, I think there's a misconception to the general age range of Nintendo's home console gamers, they see Mario and think that's for kids only kids own that when I don't think this is the case at all, what do you think?

Nintendo is for all ages. The "kiddy" stigma is usually propagated by people who are afraid to be seen as childish/weak themselves. Personally I'm not too interested in most Nintendo franchises though.

Why you calling Nintendo gamers old? I am 29 motherfucker.

Lol I'm 27, sorry adult gamers then ;) my friend is the same age and owns Nintendo consoles his brother in law is in his 30's and buys Nintendo consoles, my nephew owns a 360 as do his mates, that's why I say Nintendo gamers seem to be older from the people I come across

I'm 18, but I know Nintendo gamers who are as young as 8 and as old as 43.

It's for all ages, people who say otherwise are either too "scared" to be seen playing a fun and colourful game, have their own agenda, or are just uninterested in the company so say what the adverts portray to them.

I'd say Nintendo is family console. So its buyers are moms and dads and its players are mom+dad+kids. If a family happy together they buy Nintendo.
If mom/dad just want to get rid of annoying kid - they buy him X360/Ps3, where he finds 'virtual friends'.

See I grew up on the GameCube so I never saw Nintendo as a kid company, that is until the Wii lol. I'm only 19 so can you older folks clarify if before the Wii their home consoles were viewed as casual/childish?

I love Nintendo consoles, although it is very difficult to argue that Gamecube wasn't primarily aimed at children. Even as huge and longtime Nintendo fan, to me it looks very much like the case.

It looked like a children's lunchbox, and the controller looked like a children's toy. The main games were a cartoon for toddlers looking game in Celda, and the other was Mario with a squirty gun. People will bring up games like Resident Evil 4, but I think most people were confused why a game like that would be on the Gamecube in the first place, it was ported to Wii and PS2 and both of those outsold the original. The only other times I can think of where ports outsold the original were games ported from the heavily pirated Dreamcast.

With SNES, Nintendo was supposed to be lame compared to Sega, but then Donkey Kong Country came out. Unfortunately, Nintendo didn't follow up the awesomeness of the final years of the SNES on N64, and N64 became somewhat the lame system. Although it had some really excellent games like Goldeneye, Lylat Wars, Banjo Kazooie, Mario Kart, and the Zeldas. I think Wii made Nintendo cool again, it was the first time I had ever seen consoles being used a lot during parties.

I don't really think about it, everyone had a wii, young, middle aged identity crisised, and old farts alike.

This stigma has been around for a while. I think the average age about 6 years ago was in the high-20's low-30's, when Nintendo released demographic information. I doubt that average went down.