Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has told The Star that the company is extremely happy that both Microsoft and Sony don’t really cater to the younger audience as it gives them a unique spot in the video gaming market and it fosters affinity to the brand in the long-term.
“We are happy that they don’t. It’s been an incredibly important market because the kid who’s 5 or 6 today is going to be 12 or 13 and not all that many years later 18 or 19 … And when you have an affinity for Pokémon or The Legend of Zelda series or Mario Kart or Super Mario Bros. that affinity carries with you.”
Unfortunately enough, at 12 years of their life kids will get recruited by GTA.
Yeah when I was 12 I played GTA, but now you know what games I’m playing? Nintendo games of course
Man, every time I hear about a kid who’s playing Grand Theft Auto, I just think that’s SO terrible. If I ever had kids, I would NEVER allow them to play games like that. The ESRB doesn’t put those ratings on games for nothing.
Sir your decision is right
Kids unfortunately want what they see as “mature” content, no matter if it’s good/appropriate for them.
The fact is this. Kids wants to play mature games because thry want to grow up faster. Meanwhile we are playing those games (Super Mario, Splatoon, Star Fox) because we love to be younger again, sort of.
True. Most of the series I grew up with are still my favorite. There are some newer IPs that I love though. Like Bloodborne.
Bloodborne’s dark graphics made me so motion sick that I couldn’t even play it.
The frame rate on vanilla PS4 makes it even worse lol
In other words “we glad because we can make what we want while people can still get mature stuff on other consoles”
It’s true. Just see my posts about Star Fox. Still today I also love to play Mario games too
*Comments about Star Fox
It’s pretty obvious that Nintendo would be happy about this. More money in the pocket for them. Less money for all of the parents.
Which is funny because from what I’ve heard, the majority of Nintendo’s user base is mostly Men in their 20’s to 30’s with PS4 and XBox One getting a large portion of Kids aged 10 to 16
Really interesting! That’s quite funny. As I fit into that age bracket. Yet my little brother also fits that age bracket xbox
That’s pretty funny. My brother and I both fit in the 20-30 range and we’re huge on Nintendo (especially Pokemon). Do you have a link to an article or something about this? Seems like it could be an interesting read.
Sony and Microsoft are happy Nintendo never cater to realistic game fans. Everyone happy!!!
nice.
I’m happier too. The wider the audience, the better. Just look at Disney.
Stupid idea. I am 36 year old gamer and i more play on mine switch. Ps4 is actual Only dust hunter :) Ok Detroit i play but after 6months no ps4 playing. Switch i play from release to now.
It all depends on what type of games you like. My favorite is open world stealth games, and open world RPG’s. Because I love adventure and exploration, with vast beautiful worlds. So that’s why I love the PS4 so much. There’s a lot to choose from. But there’s none of those on the Switch (that I know of). But I don’t care about Xenoblade Chronicles, which I believe is open world.
Try Switch zelda ;) real open world. Horizon Zero dawn look cool but zelda is better game, trust me.
Horizon + dlc 9/10
Zelda botw + dlc 11/10. :D
Don’t understand why they would specifically cater to kids when they could have just been more inclusive of kids. Besides kids don’t have income, adults do.
Nintendo is still stuck in the 90s
Not really. They actually made decent consoles in the 90’s.
90s is best..