 Look, I gotta be honest with you folks This is getting old isn't it yet another developer saying that hey switches for kids Nintendos for kids their primary audience is children and It always comes from somebody who's not releasing games on the Nintendo switch This is something that was common back in 2017 I kind of died off over the years after all we've gotten games like do me turn all the witcher three It's just Hades just a slew of games that clearly are not aimed at children And have sold really really well on Nintendo switch I mean breath of the wild isn't exactly I would say arguably for everybody even though it can be And that's one of the top sellers in the platform I get it when you see animal crossing blowing up you see Mario Kart 8 the likes blowing up it gives off this perception but those games have a wide range of appeal and Nintendo's already put out metrics twice now in the switch lifespan Proving that the Nintendo switch audience is primarily over the age of 18 It's literally like 80% of the audience is over the age of 18. So the switch is Maybe not so much for children, but that's neither here nor there because the creator of Yakuza has come out to Basically slap down the Nintendo switch yet again in an interview He said these words and these are Translations I have a clarification on the translation as well to try to put it in more in context But the original translation goes I think even now the Nintendo platform is still a game Console that is played by a wide range of age groups, but basically I think it's hardware for kids and teens Amid all that at the time Nintendo was also putting a lot of effort into the kids market and I thought it would suit knees just talking in general terms of all about why Yakuza isn't on switch He goes on to point out that obviously Nintendo has some other games like Breath of the Wild and stuff that has sold really really well that appeal to Core gamers, but he still feels a vast majority of the switches audience as children Ergo the systems for kids now the clarification on these quotes is that he doesn't specifically say the Nintendo switch is For kids he says the primary audience of the system is Children that's basically what he says and he uses a very condescending Japanese word that doesn't have a direct translation to English, but it's a It's a word that's understood to be demeaning in the way It's said and this is why people are taking some issue of what he said So even in context because I know some people say well in context with correct translations He's still insulting Nintendo switch and Nintendo switch gamers by calling us primarily children and It's cool if he believes that I think he has this general belief that because the top two selling games on the platform You know you throw Pokemon in the mix as well You throw animal crossing the mix my credit deluxe they are games that appeal to everyone from children all the way through adults So then he just firmly believes the primary audience is children when The primary audience playing those games are adults it turns out that adults aren't just in the M rated video games like doom We really love games that are just fun. We don't need to base What we enjoy in this medium based on the rating of the game I mean this has been so true of adults when you look across the spectrum like when you look at you know say TV shows Right. I enjoy a wide variety of TV shows, you know things like better call Saul and You know things like I don't always I've been watching Hannibal from you know You know what six seven years ago now The three seasons of Hannibal I've been watching they clearly shows intended for a mature audience You can argue the same with like Game of Thrones or something like that But I also enjoy something like SpongeBob, you know, I still enjoy SpongeBob to this day I enjoy other shows that are more light-hearted and could arguably be watched by family like home improvement as an example that doesn't make me a Child for enjoying content. That's not necessarily Intended for an older audience. That's that's what I when I get so baffled about this It's just another game developer dismissing Nintendo because they have this perception in their mind that adults can't enjoy The same things that they feel like are meant for kids So because this guy looks at Animal Crossing looks at Mario Carlson Mario in general sees this cutesy thing going on It says oh look at these popular games for students popular arm Look at all these Nintendo games. They're all made for children Without recognizing that most of you were playing those games aren't actually children. I think that's the hard part When we have this conversation. I've talked about this before I did a whole video on this like a number of years ago Where I said hey Nintendo's not for kids then shit like it can be Yes, I encourage my children to play Nintendo switch games, but you know what else they play They also play games on Xbox. They also play games on our tablets Like they play a wide variety of content children's games exist on everything games that we play my kids exist on everything I mean literally I know new super lucky sale is is on switch But it's on game pass on Xbox and hey, hello my son Aiden my middle child he's seven years old has been playing a ton of New super lucky tail on my Xbox oh no Xbox's primary audience must be for kids Oh wait, it's not because you know they push games like Halo or Gears these m-rated games Okay, so Nintendo isn't pushing m-rated games But it turns out that if you look at some of the audience metrics of some of these games Like say Call of Duty there has been some research done That's something like 40 to 50 percent of the audience that plays that game isn't actually old enough to play that game Mind blown. It's almost as if children are drawn to things that are considered cool and Adults that are more mature tend to not care if something's considered cool or not I am not embarrassed at all to sit outside at GameStop waiting for an Xbox Series X and Playing animal crossing on a Nintendo switch. No embarrassment at all In fact, there was two other people that were doing the exact same thing when I was waiting for my system Like this is this is not new like adults enjoy a wide variety of content people enjoy why so yes Obviously Nintendo's You know very family friendly and how they approach many of their video games It's very rare that they approach a edgier more adult way of going about things Maybe more teenage way of going about things and something like Fire Emblem or Xenoblade But it's very rare to see Nintendo get edgy, but adults are into edgy, but they're also into cutesy They're also into Everything we're into fun now. This isn't me. This isn't platform or is not about PlayStation or Xbox or PC I play games on everything. What type of PlayStation 5? I will officially be playing games on every available platform. That's current It's just it's frustrating to see developer after developer after developer still dismiss the switch is like, you know what? We just don't care with that platform. It's for kids like I'm I'm just tired of it. I don't know if you're too guys are tired of it This is my Nintendo defense force and like full full go here because this is just again I don't know how many more times the stats need to be thrown out there that Nintendo has given us. They have told us Most of the people that own and play a switch right now today are adults That are their kids with a switch? Absolutely are their kids playing PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X is absolutely fat the jokes lately a bit Oh, you know or the scalper saying oh, we're gonna feel bad that some kid doesn't have a PlayStation 5 under his Christmas tree This holiday. Well, yeah kids want PlayStation 5 too cuz it's edgy. It's cool. It's hip. It's new just like adults. I think We need to mature as a populous when it comes to understanding What people play and why they play it. All right? Yes, I'm ready games are meant for older audiences But we can't say that and not realize that younger audiences like that too Are you gonna look me in the face and say when you were a kid you didn't want to play edgy your games? Heck when I was a kid I played doom that came was way out of my age range. I played doom I was you know played Wolfenstein. I was killing some Nazis like It wasn't that big a deal But it was emrated Nobody cared at the time because the visuals weren't that realistic So, you know it is whether it is you know, don't really care that you were shooting You know a gun at a fireball on a screen and doom or some blob looking demon thing like nobody cared back then but as we got Older as things look more realistic as they're gorier and bloodier and just you know, it's just very Especially in first case of doom eternal very gruesome. Yeah, okay. I don't want my kids playing that It'll probably give my kids nightmares But you know what I can't blame them if you know my daughter who turns 10 here in like a week Catches me playing a game of doom eternal and it's like whoa dad dad dad And it's kind of cool When can I play one of my old enough to play that game and then she's sneaking on my Xbox sometime in the next year Deciding she wants to give a try to doom eternal. I can't blame children for that because hey dad was playing it My children happen to think I'm pretty awesome my daughter god I do YouTube that's like her dream is to be some big social media star as I try to curb her from it while doing YouTube see a Conundrum of being a parent as a youtuber that Fundamentally does this and enjoys it but knows it's not a realistic goal to be a youtuber to be a social media star if it happens great, but like Don't really think that should be a life goal but That being said hey Follow your dreams if I'll help her when the time is right when she's old enough I don't think I might Problem is I'm not really allowed to get into it until she's pretty much out of high school But anyways, that's just me guys. I am then it over just from the center prime Let me know what you think about these comments From the creator of yakuza. His name is a toshiro Nagushi, I don't I don't know a Nagashi Nagashi. I don't know I might have butchered it I apologize for that. I'm just trying to I Guess dispel another attack I suppose The demographic that plays Nintendo games and play switch because I am 34 years old and Well within Nintendo's 18 to 35 that they claim are the primary audience that plays switch. All right folks That's all I got. I dropped the mic, but like it's attached So how have folks under that a robot just from the center prime Let me know what you think about this down in the comments below if you enjoyed this video subscribe for more We're on our road to 70,000 subscribers if we can hit 70k in this month We got some special stuff happening for you in January. Otherwise, I'll catch you guys in the next video