I was surprised too about the sales being so heavily weighted by kids in japan but those are the stats, they came from some company that's supposed to be responsible for keeping track of world sales or something; most major game retailers are registered with them =/
It doesn't mean adults and teens don't buy games in japan of course, it just means the largest wad of consumer money comes from parents pockets over what teenagers and young adults are forking out. Remember pokemon's sales if you really need some evidence you can grasp at. Mind you if you look at the selection of games you get in japan that never leave the country, it's hard not to realise how alien a culture they can be compared to the outside world o.O
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I think a lot of it has to do with when you started playing. I started playing when the SNES was new so most of my favourite games lie on the SNES. A 5 year old who starts playing video games now with Nintendo most likely won't start with SNES. He'd start with Gamecube, and the games he plays on that are going to be the ones he grows up with the memories. I was still quite young when the N64 came out and me and my friends had loads of fun with Super Mario 64. We went beyond the game, we made up our own situations and pretended we were in the game.
So what I'm saying is, maybe Nintendo is the same as it has always been. It's just what our video game memories lie with, is what we're going to appriciate. Which would explain why all our favourites lie on the NES and SNES. That's when we experienced it for our first time. That's when it was the best.
well I started with the commodre C64 going through the amiga, master system, nes, gameboy, megadrive, snes, n64 and finally to the gamecube, but most of my fondest memories still lie pretty much in the megadrive (genesis to some people) and SNES (also known as the Super Famicom).
Ok, so I still remember the paper/rock/scissors from alex the kid on the master system, but the majority of the my fondest memories lie in those 2 anyways <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
toe jam and earl!!! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I can't believe how long me and a friend spent on level 0, despite the fact the only things there were a jacuzzi you could sit in and a lemonade stand o.O
feh, everyone knows battletoads was the most roXing comic platform game of its time!! my best friend and I used to put in the infinite lives game genie code and just beat up on each other until dawn... mem'ries...
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It doesn't mean adults and teens don't buy games in japan of course, it just means the largest wad of consumer money comes from parents pockets over what teenagers and young adults are forking out. Remember pokemon's sales if you really need some evidence you can grasp at.
Mind you if you look at the selection of games you get in japan that never leave the country, it's hard not to realise how alien a culture they can be compared to the outside world o.O
So what I'm saying is, maybe Nintendo is the same as it has always been. It's just what our video game memories lie with, is what we're going to appriciate. Which would explain why all our favourites lie on the NES and SNES. That's when we experienced it for our first time. That's when it was the best.
Ok, so I still remember the paper/rock/scissors from alex the kid on the master system, but the majority of the my fondest memories lie in those 2 anyways <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
I remember Toe Jam & Earl. that was fun. As was Earthworm Jim.
Anyhow... cometh the price drop, cometh the buyage.
And I still say no 5 yr old in Japan nor the world at large should have enough spare pocket change to buy a GC. Not for a few years, at least.
I can't believe how long me and a friend spent on level 0, despite the fact the only things there were a jacuzzi you could sit in and a lemonade stand o.O