You arent their target market, nobody on Lemmy is. Their target market is pre-pubescent kids and their parents who want their kids toys to “Just work” the parents who just buy the games on the shelf at the store, and the associated merch.
They make great games and to play them you need their hardware, why would they dilute that? This way they get to hit you twice and control their own market pricing. I know “emulators and piracy” right? Those people werent buying shit anyway. Why accomodate them?
We have two Switches in the house and a lot of games. Their target market is everyone; sure kids are a large part of it, but so are women and others who enjoy Nintendo games.
Their target market is pre-pubescent kids[. . . .]
You certainly wouldn’t know that looking at most of their advertising on TV in Japan and by the people buying them. Handhelds are really popular in Japan because of train commutes by people of all ages.
I’m not sure what percentage of their business is domestic, though.
Japan had really useful cellphones and such when I could only opt for a PC in the US. As such, until recently with PC gaming, PCs we’re always considered work tools and not a lot of people had them and those that did didn’t game on them a ton. Kinda like I seem to see with Gen Z or maybe alpha in US media. This is one reason consoles we’re quite dominant here.
You arent their target market, nobody on Lemmy is. Their target market is pre-pubescent kids and their parents who want their kids toys to “Just work” the parents who just buy the games on the shelf at the store, and the associated merch.
They make great games and to play them you need their hardware, why would they dilute that? This way they get to hit you twice and control their own market pricing. I know “emulators and piracy” right? Those people werent buying shit anyway. Why accomodate them?
We have two Switches in the house and a lot of games. Their target market is everyone; sure kids are a large part of it, but so are women and others who enjoy Nintendo games.
You certainly wouldn’t know that looking at most of their advertising on TV in Japan and by the people buying them. Handhelds are really popular in Japan because of train commutes by people of all ages.
Japan has always bucked the worldwide trends when it comes to handhelds this is true.
I’m not sure what percentage of their business is domestic, though.
Japan had really useful cellphones and such when I could only opt for a PC in the US. As such, until recently with PC gaming, PCs we’re always considered work tools and not a lot of people had them and those that did didn’t game on them a ton. Kinda like I seem to see with Gen Z or maybe alpha in US media. This is one reason consoles we’re quite dominant here.