Young adults were always the ones pouring the most money in the industry. Kids may have been more numerous, but they/their parents spent less. A good example of this is looking up old usenets posts, the majority of which were written by university students, and see how some of them owed literally every console out there and tons of games for them.

Sony knew this, and considering that Nintendo had already cornered the "kids" market, it only made sense for the early PlayStation marketing strategy to be aimed at young adults. Of course this changed after a couple of years and they started including everyone, but at the start yes, it made sense

>>11811165 (OP)
It was the 90s. The generation of kids were brought up on R rated films and just dark kids movies that today would never be released for that audience, it was the "attitude" era of wrestling, coolness was synonymous with pessimism, anime was in it's full exploitation era where rape and gore reigned supreme, comic books were full of edgy over the top designs, blah blah

To answer your question, I guess. Culture got edgy in the 80s and didn't take a turn against edginess until the 2010s when everything was unicorns and rainbows

Bot thread

>>11811165 (OP)
>craving
No.
The "normal" was just different.
What's considered mature today would be considered over-doing it on the family-friendly side.

>>11811178
This. As a kid my parents bought me two games a year. I now buy a game a week.

>>11811186

>>11811165 (OP)
Was OP really craving for a more mature cock back in the 90s?

>>11811165 (OP)
What do you even mean by that? I mostly just was still interested in arcade games back then. Ridge Racer, fighting games, etc. But Final Fantasy games were also an interesting experience.
Overall I wished I could have played a japanese Saturn at that time. It had the best games.

>>11811165 (OP)
Botpost.

>>11811165 (OP)
>gamers
Nah it’s always been 14-18 year olds who desperately need to consume uniquely “mature” media so they can differentiate themselves from the children and oldheads who both prefer Nintendo’s unpretentious “fun” style.

>>11811165 (OP)
In 95-96 middle schoolers were watching Terminator 2, Pulp Fiction, X-Files, Bad Boys and Friday. 12 year olds watching R rated movies was normal. Anything lesser was considered to be infantile and pathetic.

Actually being seen as liking disney or musicals would get you beat up. Even then everyone wanted to be edgy and cool, Disney did not want to be Disney and pretended to be dark and cool too. This was around the time they were making Gargoyles and Mighty Ducks.

>>11811165 (OP)
They just wanted blood and titties.

>>11811287
>prefer Nintendo
I like fun shit but I like cool fun shit, I don't think things like Sonic or TMNT are "mature" but it's just more my flavor of kidshit opposed to Mario and Kirby which always felt "gay" to me for lack of a better term.

It's ironic Nintendo only focuses on that branding, because with Metroid and to an extent Starfox, they proved they're very well capable at doing something that's both still okay for kids but has a cool factor and not just cutesy/quirky/rainbows and gumdrops etc. And yes, I know they tried to evolve Kirby that way but it just feels funny and awkward, Kirby with a dark edgy black knight rival or whatever feels about as awkward and unintentionally funny to me as 00s Sonic interacting with humans/monsters ripped from Final Fantasy X

>stupid question in subject field resolvable by a google search thread
This is a fucking bot by the mods to create engagement, right? I remember when not long ago the janny would delete low quality threads like this, but they leave them untouched now. Fishy shit.

>>11811351
I dunno to me retro mario feels like classic cools cartoons.
Kirby definitely has cool elements, like Meta Knight and his Yamato inspired airship.
I think a lot of you thinking they are gay is projection

>>11811165 (OP)
I was. Playstation had tons of games with interesting new themes and nintendo still just felt like a mario machine, more or less.