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6/13/2025, 8:19:55 PM
>>712544483
If anything, that show's Nintendo's demographic isn't kids anymore but young adults. I believe that graph was from 2020-2021 so those 20-30 year olds were Wii kids. But as it shows, kids today aren't interested in Nintendo. They care way more about Fortnite and Minecraft. The audience Nintendo would appeal too is going to be far more comfortable on PC then when the Switch launched. The risk to Nintendo is that the nostalgia play doesn't work anymore. You can already see this. Everyone playing Mario Kart World is in their 30s and as you get older, you play games less. Nintendo hasn't created anything new and they've been relying on Millennials and early Zoomers to buy systems. This generation is at risk of falling out of games as they build a family, go up in their job and (maybe) buy a house. The Switch 2 will likely everywhere outside of Japan (it will dominate there again) as it struggles to keep the nostalgia audience. And because I know someone is going to say it
>BUT MUH 3.5 MILLION
Japan by itself was about 30% of that and UK, Spain and France made up another 450K, so US sales were likely underrepresented. This is likely why you saw a fuck ton of pictures where stores had a ton of them. Its not unlike the 3DS where Nintendo struggled to break 75 million and Japan remained its best selling market until the US barely overtook it in 2017. The nostalgia audience aging out is why its going to struggle in the US which is Nintendo's biggest market.
The risk to Sony is actually Steam though they are kind of losing that fight. PS6 without COVID stimmy checks will be the real test.
If anything, that show's Nintendo's demographic isn't kids anymore but young adults. I believe that graph was from 2020-2021 so those 20-30 year olds were Wii kids. But as it shows, kids today aren't interested in Nintendo. They care way more about Fortnite and Minecraft. The audience Nintendo would appeal too is going to be far more comfortable on PC then when the Switch launched. The risk to Nintendo is that the nostalgia play doesn't work anymore. You can already see this. Everyone playing Mario Kart World is in their 30s and as you get older, you play games less. Nintendo hasn't created anything new and they've been relying on Millennials and early Zoomers to buy systems. This generation is at risk of falling out of games as they build a family, go up in their job and (maybe) buy a house. The Switch 2 will likely everywhere outside of Japan (it will dominate there again) as it struggles to keep the nostalgia audience. And because I know someone is going to say it
>BUT MUH 3.5 MILLION
Japan by itself was about 30% of that and UK, Spain and France made up another 450K, so US sales were likely underrepresented. This is likely why you saw a fuck ton of pictures where stores had a ton of them. Its not unlike the 3DS where Nintendo struggled to break 75 million and Japan remained its best selling market until the US barely overtook it in 2017. The nostalgia audience aging out is why its going to struggle in the US which is Nintendo's biggest market.
The risk to Sony is actually Steam though they are kind of losing that fight. PS6 without COVID stimmy checks will be the real test.
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