• Why aren’t there more “Mature” games for Nintendo Switch?
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[url]https://arstechnica.com/?p=1188379[/url]
Because there don't need to be? I'm glad there's not a buttload of "Mature" games because that seems like that's all there is now. I want to be able to relax and enjoy a cute looking game every once in a while.
Maybe because the console is young. [QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;52788770] I want to be able to relax and enjoy a cute looking game every once in a while.[/QUOTE] Why not both?
Why aren't there more "games" for the Nintendo Switch?
[QUOTE=Greenblur;52789057]Why aren't there more "games" for the Nintendo Switch?[/QUOTE] There are a lot of games for the Nintendo Switch
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;52789293]There are a lot of games for the Nintendo Switch[/QUOTE] ~150 non-region locked, depending on how accurate the Wikipedia list is, how many I might have missed by counting each and every one individually, or accidentally included because there's no easy way to filter them. However, only ~8% of those are games that people are going to give a shit about when these kinds of conversations come up. Nobody really cares about multiplats, even between Xbox vs. PS4 discussions, and I'm sure they matter even less for Nintendo consoles, where you generally get a worse experience for a higher price because the price of games never seems to fucking go down, and if you own anything else, you'll probably get it on there unless you want it mobile (which is a factor that hasn't existed until this generation, so we'll have to wait and see how much of a draw that is). "150" looks like a lot, but it's a lot less impressive when ~130 are available on practically everything else.
"nintendo switch has no games, except for all of those games it has, but those don't count, let me just move these goalposts real quick"
[QUOTE=Reds;52791171]"nintendo switch has no games, except for all of those games it has, but those don't count, let me just move these goalposts real quick"[/QUOTE] I mean I'm not wrong though? The PS3 had a dickload of games fairly soon after it came out, but nobody gave a shit because none of them were exclusives or worthwhile, and ~hurr durr ps3 has no games~ lasted for what felt like a damn eternity. Right now, they effectively have nothing worth buying a Switch for unless you really like inking everywhere or playing re-releases and ports of games you can play on a console that's three times cheaper or, in the case of everything ranging from Cave Story+ to World of Goo, a fucking laptop from a decade ago, and in the case of the former, the 3DS. Wake me up in 9 days when their highest-profile release isn't a WiiU game and there's actually a reason to buy the console.
[QUOTE=gk99;52791491]I mean I'm not wrong though? The PS3 had a dickload of games fairly soon after it came out, but nobody gave a shit because none of them were exclusives or worthwhile, and ~hurr durr ps3 has no games~ lasted for what felt like a damn eternity. Right now, they effectively have nothing worth buying a Switch for unless you really like inking everywhere or playing re-releases and ports of games you can play [/QUOTE] Arms? Zelda BOTW? Snipperclips? Mario+Rabbids? In 9 days Super Mario Odyssey? Xenoblade Chronicles on Dec. 1? Number of exclusives and games in general of the first year of the PS3 is aprox. the same as the Switch, though some of the exclusives like Mobile Suit Gundam on the PS3 were really bad. [QUOTE=gk99;52791491]the case of everything ranging from Cave Story+ to World of Goo, a fucking laptop from a decade ago, and in the case of the former, the 3DS. [/QUOTE] In what world does a laptop have the same comfortability as the Switch? I've never seen someone playing something with a controller on a laptop in a train for example. There are people who value the portability of the console very highly and take it as a Nr.1 reason to get a Switch and to play those games on it. Even re-releases like Pokken or Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and third party games like Skyrim, LA Noire and such get a complete new appeal due to its portable nature.
Isn't the answer just that the Switch's target audience [I]is[/I] "family-friendly"? From at least when the Wii/DS were released, Nintendo has had the biggest hit with children and parents, rather than the teenage/young adult market, so it makes sense that games/general marketing are targeted primarily for that audience.
[QUOTE=djjkxbox;52791966]Isn't the answer just that the Switch's target audience [I]is[/I] "family-friendly"? From at least when the Wii/DS were released, Nintendo has had the biggest hit with children and parents, rather than the teenage/young adult market, so it makes sense that games/general marketing are targeted primarily for that audience.[/QUOTE] But it's not. Watch every ad spot for Switch and 95% it's young adults. Wii U had only children to market to and look how it turned out. Wii and DS also had multiple r-18 titles.
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