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Do you consider Nintendo for children?

Yes 207 49.52%
 
No 211 50.48%
 
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TK14 on 27 April 2014

Because Nintendo dares to use colors other than brown and grey in their games. Shocking, I know.



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celador on 27 April 2014

I'd say the word inclusive is more appropriate than childish



BeElite on 27 April 2014
TK14 said:
Because Nintendo dares to use colors other than brown and grey in their games. Shocking, I know.


Would be much more shocking to see them use those colours in lets say a fps, damn imagine a colourful rpg with mature content and story.  My god even uhhhhh complex relationships yet with CoLouR. 



jlmurph2 on 27 April 2014

Because they have commercials with kids trying to convince their parents than the Wii U is an upgrade.



DeadnBuried on 27 April 2014

Because, they ARE for kids. The vast majority of their games are for ages 3 and up. Mario, Donkey Kong, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, and while Pokemon and Zelda are a bit more complex they're still fine for younger audiences. I think Fire Emblem is their only slightly more mature franchise, maybe a bit of Metroid too.

Meanwhile, Microsoft and Sony focus heavily on the likes of Halo, Uncharted, God of War, Gears of War, Killzone, Infamous, etc. Sure, Sony also have LittleBigPlanet and Ratchet and Clank, but they still put most of their weight behind their more mature games.



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Squeezol on 27 April 2014
iceland said:
Maybe it's because Nintendo actually promotes their consoles as such?





Damagon on 27 April 2014

Because unlike Sony or Microsoft most of their games, particularly the most popular ones, are NOT catered exclusively to an adult audience.

When something isn't adults-only it's automatically labeled kid-friendly.



jlmurph2 on 27 April 2014
ktay95 said:
AshKetchum1992 said:

I can't believe Nintendo really designed a console thinking of portability XD just imagine how it would've been carrying an Xbox XD

Dont have to imagine, used to carry my mates Xbox back and forth all the time. Dont really know why though, we only ever really played games that we could buy on PS2 anyway and we both owned and prefered the PS2 =P


Back in the Xbox days we used to bring Xboxes over friends' house for Halo LAN parties. System Link is the sh*t.



freebs2 on 27 April 2014

Because older players without self-respect are afraid to be judged for playing cartoony looking games.



Scoobes on 27 April 2014

Is this a serious question?

It's historical on one hand, but also it's plastered in nearly everything they do. Their games are designed to appeal to the widest possible demographic, and that means they're designed to be child friendly. Even games which are arguably harder in difficulty than more "mature" titles (e.g. Zelda vs Assassins Creed, Halo vs Metroid), the art-style and marketing make them appear as child-friendly as possible so parents feel comfortable purchasing the game for their child.




Get your Portable ID!