Doing stuff the parents do is soooo uncool, so kids in the future will read a book while their parents want to play Mario Kart with them.

Indeed, there's nothing special to this because it's actually just natural progression. People who grew up with the NES are around 40 years old now, the Atari generation isn't much older.

During the GameCube era, it was already the case that the average age of GC owners was above 20, at least after the first couple of years or so when such a stat was published by Nintendo. The prevailing thought that Nintendo console owners are mostly kids is nothing more than a result of PR work of Nintendo's competitors against Nintendo. Likewise, the idea that Sega and later Sony got older people to play video games is an illusion because they were just taking from the pools of gamers that were already created by Atari and Nintendo before, and these gamers were going to get older just like everyone else.

As for the software breakdown, there's nothing special about it either. A growing number of third parties putting more effort into their Switch games results in higher sales for third party games. It's not a revelation that quality and marketing matter for game sales.

I agree the audience is mainly adults now but is this data from Nintendo account ages? If so it is 100% skewed by kids faking their age

Calm down, he wasn't attacking Nintendo. You don't need research to come to the conclusion that a decent amount of people lie on their accounts to void any age restrictions. I and every kid I knew did this when we were underage, I am sure it happens across the board for Steam, MSFT, Sony, ect... 

Let alone this would be kinda hard to prove or disprove as you need people to admit to lying and I doubt anyone is seriously looking into it. There are numerous reported stories where kids used their parents credit card without their consent, while that is likely very rare in comparison, it's not hard to imagine kids just simply lying about their age on their account.

It also makes sense why 21 sees such a spike. You don't need to do any math if you choose the year 2000 as a birth year because you know it's over 18. I bet a ton of people select 2000 as the birth year because who cares if you are selecting the right year, as long as it's over 18. I think I have done that a few times even though I am well over 21 now.

That being said, I don't think the data is 100% skewed and the trendlines are most likely accurate. 

Yeah no this. Again I said the audiences were mostly accurate, just skewed because a large amount of kids will put adult ages so their arent any restrictions on their accounts. This is extremely common among most who make accounts at that age. It had absolutely nothing to do with the console war shit, yes Im sure the Xbox & Sony have equally skewed data lmfao

Calm down, he wasn't attacking Nintendo. You don't need research to come to the conclusion that a decent amount of people lie on their accounts to void any age restrictions. I and every kid I knew did this when we were underage, I am sure it happens across the board for Steam, MSFT, Sony, ect... 

Let alone this would be kinda hard to prove or disprove as you need people to admit to lying and I doubt anyone is seriously looking into it. There are numerous reported stories where kids used their parents credit card without their consent, while that is likely very rare in comparison, it's not hard to imagine kids just simply lying about their age on their account.

It also makes sense why 21 sees such a spike. You don't need to do any math if you choose the year 2000 as a birth year because you know it's over 18. I bet a ton of people select 2000 as the birth year because who cares if you are selecting the right year, as long as it's over 18. I think I have done that a few times even though I am well over 21 now.

That being said, I don't think the data is 100% skewed and the trendlines are most likely accurate.