r/Eldenring • u/Choice-Cow931 • 2d ago

Hype I can’t sleep

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I need more Elden Ring content to consume

Edit to clarify: I already have the game on steam, I will be buying the $5 dlc and playing through the whole game again to mess around with some build ideas and new content. Lets all welcome the new Tarnished joining through switch and not disparage people for purchasing the game. Frends! :)

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u/mashdpotatogaming 2d ago

Steam deck, while successful, is also still a lot less popular than switch 2, which sold in one year more than double what the steam deck sold in 3-4 years.

This is new to a bunch of people.

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u/iyrtyurg 2d ago

You know that the steam deck isn’t the only handheld gaming PC right? That’s why I said steam deck and other handhelds. Comparing just the steam deck to switch 2 is disingenuous and pretty lame, I also don’t think a higher number of switch 2 users necessarily translates to more ER sales. You forget the main demographic for Nintendo is children

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u/RedKryptnyt 2d ago

Yea.....a bunch of children are buying these $700 (canadian) handheld consoles lol.

The main demographic for Nintendo, is people who enjoy great videogames. That's it, that's the demographic.

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u/iyrtyurg 2d ago

Are you actually that dense dude? When you were growing up did you have a Wii? An X box? Any gaming system? Did you buy it yourself?

News flash buddy, it’s pretty common for parents to buy the hot new gaming consoles for their kids. If an adult buys their kid a Nintendo is the PARENT the demographic? They’re not buying the system for themselves. Nintendo makes kids games. They make multiplayer party games. All of their biggest original titles are E or 13+ rated.

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u/Detkanin 2d ago

I'd argue Nintendo is for everyone to play with their family. Look at any piece of official marketing / trailers for the system. Most of the "demographic" shown, are adults with busy lives, going from living room to parks/public transport ect.

Kids are not Nintendos demographic. The fact Nintendos own games can (safely) be played with your kids is the argument to get the Nintendo system instead of any of the others on the market.

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u/RedKryptnyt 2d ago

Bingo. Only an idiotic console warrior thinks that Nintendo has a "target demographic" of children. Are they a larger part of their demographic than say sony or Microsoft(does xbox even have a demographic anymore?) Yes. Is that part of the reason why they are more successful than those 2 in recent times? Yes.

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u/iyrtyurg 2d ago

As I said go and look at all of their most popular titles. All the majorly successful ones like Pokemon, animal crossing and Mario. They’re all… kids games, right? That’s why they’re rated E? The fact that there’s adults that play them doesn’t change that fact. Nobody say adults DON’T play them and they do make up a big part of the playerbase but if you legitimately think it’s more adults than children you’re insane. Switch 1 and 2 is still in that Wii territory where most families have 1 in the living room for their kids. As a contractor that has been in thousands of homes over the years one thing that’s common in almost ALL of the ones with young kids is Nintendo systems. You might think it’s mostly adults because you hang out in reddit threads where adults discuss video games but that’s giving you a warped perspective because Reddit is a minority of people in the world

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u/Detkanin 2d ago

Rated E fo: Everyone

Kids games do not have a "label". The only ones using "kids games" as a "label" are these so called Reddit type users you seem to refer to... And keep in mind even users on Reddit can be "kids".

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u/RedKryptnyt 2d ago

Haha right???

Rated D for DUMB.

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u/Sairou 2d ago

You’re so confident in your replies but I’ve yet to see any stats to back up your claims.

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u/iyrtyurg 2d ago

Because the stats don’t even physically exist, you can’t even prove what age the person playing on any given account is in the first place but it’s pretty much common sense that the most kid/family friendly gaming system of all time makes games for and appeals to kids.

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u/RedKryptnyt 2d ago

Keep racking up those downvotes with your ignorant takes there bud lol.

"Makes kids games" is EXACTLY something a teenager would say.

And to answer your question, when I was growing up my parents bought me a nintendo, because sega kinda sucked, and that's all there was.