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"Nintendo fans" , posted Wed 2 Feb 19:27:post reply

======================彡川川川三三三ミ=============/
     \============ |川|川\  /|========== /
 \    \==========∥|∥ ◎---◎|=========/    /==
 ==\    \========川川∥    3  ヽ======/     /====
 ====\    \======川川   ∴)〆(∴)=== /     /======
 ======\   /\===川川          /=/\   /========
 ========\/   \川川∥        //   \/==========
 =========\     川川川川    __/     /============
 ===========\        \___/     /==============
 ==============\;;;;;;;               // ̄ ̄ ̄~八\===
 ===============|;;;;;;   ⊂Nintendo⊃  ヽ /彡彡彡/  \\=
 ===============|;;;;;;      ・  ・     ヽ|彡彡/ へ  へ\|=
 ===============|;;;;;;;  ・ ::::・        ヽ|彡/       |=
 ===============|;;;;;;;;   :::::       |リ  ⌒ ⊃ ⌒ |==
 ===============|;;;;;;;;  ・:::::・・       |   ( __ )|=
 ===============|;;;;;;;;  ・ ・ :・        |     \/ |=
 ===============|;;;;;;;;       ・        |   __/===


(link found in miyamoto apologist's gaping bullet wound)

Really! These Nintendo fans form a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire :(





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"Re(1):Nintendo fans" , posted Wed 2 Feb 21:04post reply

The nintendork hunting season is on ! Hooray !
 ̄∨ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄
∧ ∧      (
( ゚∀゚)______ )
i  つヮっゥ--―''
|  'イ
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「とにかく、それは愛のムチよ。
愛しいXXX先生は君を愛弟子として愛するがゆえの厳しさよ」だって。

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"Re(2):Nintendo fans" , posted Thu 3 Feb 01:42post reply

quote:
The nintendork hunting season is on ! Hooray !
 ̄∨ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄
∧ ∧      (
( ゚∀゚)______ )
i  つヮっゥ--―''
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し'^J




I'm a nintendork! Don't kill me!







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"Re(3):Nintendo fans" , posted Thu 3 Feb 02:42post reply

   I'm a nintendork! Don't kil...
  ____.____    |
  |        |        |   |
  |:・:∵;."゙ | .. . . . . .. .. . . . ... . . .. . .
  |ヽつ     |        |   |
  |  ノ⊃   |        |   |                             Did I hear something? Hmmm...
                            ズドゥーン         ``   ∧∧ I must be daydreaming.
                      __ -,,,::;:'''"´"'''  ,,______Cニ))ニ)Д゚,,).  )   
                        ´"''''- ''"  ~ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄`A---l__l-1⊂,,,⌒`つ 
                            | ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄
                            `┬―――――――――――――
                            . |
                            . |       ____.____
                            . 






「とにかく、それは愛のムチよ。
愛しいXXX先生は君を愛弟子として愛するがゆえの厳しさよ」だって。

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"Re(4):Nintendo fans" , posted Thu 3 Feb 02:59post reply

I am a Nintendork, shoot your load all over me...Thank you Miyamoto.





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"Re(4):Nintendo fans" , posted Thu 3 Feb 05:27post reply

quote:
   I'm a nintendork! Don't kil...
  ____.____    |
  |        |        |   |
  |:・:∵;."゙ | .. . . . . .. .. . . . ... . . .. . .
  |ヽつ     |        |   |
  |  ノ⊃   |        |   |                             Did I hear something? Hmmm...
                            ズドゥーン         ``   ∧∧ I must be daydreaming.
                      __ -,,,::;:'''"´"'''  ,,______Cニ))ニ)Д゚,,).  )   
                        ´"''''- ''"  ~ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄`A---l__l-1⊂,,,⌒`つ 
                            | ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄
                            `┬―――――――――――――
                            . |
                            . |       ____.____
                            . 




I'M TELLING YOU THESE BLASTED THINGS MAKE NO SENSE! NO SENSE AT ALL!

Oh, and count me in on the Nintendorks. Nintendo owns you all, fools.





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"Re(2):Nintendo fans" , posted Thu 3 Feb 08:23post reply

quote:
The nintendork hunting season is on ! Hooray !
 ̄∨ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄
∧ ∧      (
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i  つヮっゥ--―''
|  'イ
し'^J




Lock and load.





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"Re(1):Nintendo fans" , posted Thu 3 Feb 10:32post reply

quote:
======================彡川川川三三三ミ=============/
     \============ |川|川\  /|========== /
 \    \==========∥|∥ ◎---◎|=========/    /==
 ==\    \========川川∥    3  ヽ======/     /====
 ====\    \======川川   ∴)〆(∴)=== /     /======
 ======\   /\===川川          /=/\   /========
 ========\/   \川川∥        //   \/==========
 =========\     川川川川    __/     /============
 ===========\        \___/     /==============
 ==============\;;;;;;;               // ̄ ̄ ̄~八\===
 ===============|;;;;;;   ⊂Nintendo⊃  ヽ /彡彡彡/  \\=
 ===============|;;;;;;      ・  ・     ヽ|彡彡/ へ  へ\|=
 ===============|;;;;;;;  ・ ::::・        ヽ|彡/       |=
 ===============|;;;;;;;;   :::::       |リ  ⌒ ⊃ ⌒ |==
 ===============|;;;;;;;;  ・:::::・・       |   ( __ )|=
 ===============|;;;;;;;;  ・ ・ :・        |     \/ |=
 ===============|;;;;;;;;       ・        |   __/===


(link found in miyamoto apologist's gaping bullet wound)

Really! These Nintendo fans form a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire :(



Nintendo itself has always targeted little kids with the style of a large amount of their games, although older people are the ones spending the most of the money on them. Didn't Kojima not do the next Metal Gear on Gamecube for a while because it was a system for kids?

On the one hand I kind of don't care what 4 lines of the San Francisco Chronical said. But I am also surprised how lightly some of you guys are taking this.





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"Re(2):Nintendo fans" , posted Thu 3 Feb 15:59post reply

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Nintendo itself has always targeted little kids

Did anyone else stop reading at this point? I know I sure did.


Heh heh.





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"Re(3):Nintendo fans" , posted Thu 3 Feb 18:57post reply

quote:
Nintendo itself has always targeted little kids
Did anyone else stop reading at this point? I know I sure did.

Interesting bit of information : after the release of the NDS, the number of Nintendorks of Club Nintendô Japan that were over 19 went from 49% to 59%.

Also, even more interesting, the number of women went from 15% to 22%. And since some of the games made by women or targeted to women are amongst the most original released, I'm curious to see what Nintendô can do with that.





「とにかく、それは愛のムチよ。
愛しいXXX先生は君を愛弟子として愛するがゆえの厳しさよ」だって。

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"Re(3):Nintendo fans" , posted Fri 4 Feb 08:41post reply

quote:
Nintendo itself has always targeted little kids
Did anyone else stop reading at this point? I know I sure did.


Heh heh.

Mid sentence? You punish good deeds Fred? Read the rest "with the style of a large amount of their games, although older people are the ones spending the most of the money on them..."
Or do we think that because adults buy Nintendos, therefore Nintendo never targets kids?

Don' get offended at me, if you must get offended get offended at this http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=34130
I know that the average age of gamers is about 30 by now, just like I know that a number of Nintendo's games like Mario have childish artwork and themes.

I was going to post originally a little tale about Nintendofreak, but I didn't because I didn't want to deal with the possibility of some people taking it all personally.





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"Re(4):Nintendo fans" , posted Fri 4 Feb 09:21post reply

quote:

Mid sentence? You punish good deeds Fred?

I was joking, actually. The people at that other forum had apparently not read any more about RE4 as soon as the reviewer had made a crack about the GameCube, so yeah, I was sort of quoting them.





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"Re(5):Nintendo fans" , posted Fri 4 Feb 10:16post reply

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Mid sentence? You punish good deeds Fred?
I was joking, actually. The people at that other forum had apparently not read any more about RE4 as soon as the reviewer had made a crack about the GameCube, so yeah, I was sort of quoting them.

I read the
quote:
Did anyone read past this?
on the other forum and thought you might have been humerously recycling it, which I should have mentioned before, so anywawy I rescind to you. Sometimes on internet boards its not clear if someone is kidding or taking a jab even if with humour.

here are some fun facts that are about 2 years old from
http://www.theesa.com/pressroom.html
Top Ten Industry Facts
1/ U.S. computer and video game software sales grew eight percent in 2003 to $7 billion – a more than doubling of industry software sales since 1996.
2/ In 2003, more than 239 million computer and video games were sold, or almost two games for every household in America.
3/ Half of all Americans age six and older play computer and video games.
4/ The average age of a game player is 29 years old.
5/ The average game buyer is 36 years old. In 2003, 94 percent of computer game buyers and 84 percent of console game buyers were over the age of 18.
6/ Thirty-nine percent of game players are women.
7/ Eighty-five percent of all games sold in 2003 were rated "E" for everyone or "T" for teen. (For more information on ratings, please see www.esrb.org.)
8/ Ninety-two percent of parents surveyed who have children under the age of 18 say they monitor the content of the interactive games their children play, and 55 percent of parents say they play interactive games with their kids at least once a month.
9/ Forty-three percent of game players say they play games online one or more hours per week, up from thirty-seven percent in 2003 and thirty-one percent in 2002.
10/ More than half of game players expect to be playing as much or more 10 years from now as they do today.

My opinion which someone will probably be offended by is at least 1/4 of #6 were sisters or girlfriends of a male gamer who got them into it.





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"Re(6):Nintendo fans" , posted Fri 4 Feb 16:16post reply

quote:

here are some fun facts that are about 2 years old from
http://www.theesa.com/pressroom.html
Top Ten Industry Facts
1/ U.S. computer and video game software sales grew eight percent in 2003 to $7 billion – a more than doubling of industry software sales since 1996.
2/ In 2003, more than 239 million computer and video games were sold, or almost two games for every household in America.
3/ Half of all Americans age six and older play computer and video games.
4/ The average age of a game player is 29 years old.
5/ The average game buyer is 36 years old. In 2003, 94 percent of computer game buyers and 84 percent of console game buyers were over the age of 18.
6/ Thirty-nine percent of game players are women.
7/ Eighty-five percent of all games sold in 2003 were rated "E" for everyone or "T" for teen. (For more information on ratings, please see www.esrb.org.)
8/ Ninety-two percent of parents surveyed who have children under the age of 18 say they monitor the content of the interactive games their children play, and 55 percent of parents say they play interactive games with their kids at least once a month.
9/ Forty-three percent of game players say they play games online one or more hours per week, up from thirty-seven percent in 2003 and thirty-one percent in 2002.
10/ More than half of game players expect to be playing as much or more 10 years from now as they do today.



In other news, 94.82467036% of statistics that do not attribute a source or method for the gathering of said statistics are probably total bullshit. Also, 98.37468% of unattributed statistics that defy all conventional reasoning are definitely total bullshit.

I see that "The average age of a game player is 29 years old" quote thrown around a lot, but no one ever has ever really attributed it to any specific scientific poll. If memory serves me, wasn't it originally a poll taken among E3 attendees, 100% of which are over the age of 18? And wasn't the female gamers poll taken pretty much the same way?





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"Re(7):Nintendo fans" , posted Fri 4 Feb 16:49post reply

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In other news, 94.82467036% of statistics that do not attribute a source or method for the gathering of said statistics are probably total bullshit. Also, 98.37468% of unattributed statistics that defy all conventional reasoning are definitely total bullshit.

I see that "The average age of a game player is 29 years old" quote thrown around a lot, but no one ever has ever really attributed it to any specific scientific poll. If memory serves me, wasn't it originally a poll taken among E3 attendees, 100% of which are over the age of 18? And wasn't the female gamers poll taken pretty much the same way?



kent, you can use statistics to prove anything. %90 of people know that.





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"Re(7):Nintendo fans" , posted Fri 4 Feb 17:49post reply

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In other news, 94.82467036% of statistics that do not attribute a source or method for the gathering of said statistics are probably total bullshit. Also, 98.37468% of unattributed statistics that defy all conventional reasoning are definitely total bullshit.

Hooray ! So the stats I quoted are not bullshit. Hooray !
Whadya mean, no one cares ?





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"Re(8):Nintendo fans" , posted Fri 4 Feb 17:55post reply

quote:
In other news, 94.82467036% of statistics that do not attribute a source or method for the gathering of said statistics are probably total bullshit. Also, 98.37468% of unattributed statistics that defy all conventional reasoning are definitely total bullshit.
Hooray ! So the stats I quoted are not bullshit. Hooray !
Whadya mean, no one cares ?

This thread is 100% FUN.





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"Re(9):Nintendo fans" , posted Fri 4 Feb 18:19post reply

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This thread is 100% FUN.


wwwwwwwwThis is Saboten quality wwwwwww.





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"Re(6):Nintendo fans" , posted Fri 4 Feb 19:33post reply

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8/ Ninety-two percent of parents surveyed who have children under the age of 18 say they monitor the content of the interactive games their children play, and 55 percent of parents say they play interactive games with their kids at least once a month.




I bet this is quite a big lie. 92% of the parents actually caring about what their children play, without previous alarm of the TV?? ("GTA is evil, Pokémon causes epilepsia", etc... kind of warnings).

If, as DarkZero says this statistics are made up (or badly made), this one is the perfect example. If not, the parents who participated in this poll were too ashamed of saying "I use videogames as a way to get rid of my children during a couple of hours while I watch the NFL. I don't know what the hell they're playing, of course".





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"Re(7):Nintendo fans" , posted Fri 4 Feb 20:22post reply

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If not, the parents who participated in this poll were too ashamed of saying "I use videogames as a way to get rid of my children during a couple of hours while I watch the NFL. I don't know what the hell they're playing, of course".

I agree. I'm sure their idea of "monitoring the content" is just looking at the pictures on the front of the box. As long as there are no exploding heads or porn stars getting rammed on the cover, then they assume it's kid-friendly.





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"Re(7):Nintendo fans" , posted Fri 4 Feb 20:32post reply

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If, as DarkZero says this statistics are made up (or badly made), this one is the perfect example. If not, the parents who participated in this poll were too ashamed of saying "I use videogames as a way to get rid of my children during a couple of hours while I watch the NFL. I don't know what the hell they're playing, of course".



Well, those kinds of statistics are always false. Any question like, "Do you --complex euphemism for 'pay attention to your kids'--?" is just a flat out faulty question. That's like saying that, "According to a nationwide telephone poll of 1,582 American men, 100% of men are neither child molesters nor rapists." There are some questions that just can't be answered by polls, because you can't expect an honest answer and any margin of error that you add to the study would be totally arbitrary.