davygee said:
Adults may be playing the Wii and DS, but that doesn't deter from the fact that Nintendo games systems still ooze "kiddy console". Although IMHO, there is nothing wrong with that. It's just there will be a portion of the gaming public that will not go down this avenue purely because the Wii and DS has a badge and they don't like it! You talk about the Wii's game library though....what exactly in the library means that there is no debate with regards to have a less "kiddy" and a more "adult" console? |
Well first, what oozes kiddy console? I mean as far as staple franchises I agree that games like Mario, Kirby, and Pokemon certainly are family friendly (kiddy, depending on your definition), despite often having deeper gameplay elements than most mature games.
As far as things in their library suggesting otherwise, for me it's diversity. Diversity of genre, and style of game. As far as the adult CASUAL audience, games like Wii Sports and Brain Age appeal directly to the casual adult gamer who doesn't have much time to play games.
Again, it's only a select few people who are unfortunately very vocal on the internet who really refer to the Wii as being a kiddy console. The rest of the world doesn't agree with them. If the Wii was truly only bought by the 12 and under audience, it's sales would be impossible. The 12 and under demographic is the smalles demographic in gaming. I'd say the Wii does hold a majority of this demographic, but if they didn't hold chunks of the college and adult demographics there would be no chance at all for them to have such record breaking sales. I don't think they hold much of the high school audience at all, and I believe that it's this demographic that most M rated games and the PS3 and Xbox 360 target.
