Nintendo is for children? Do we know what we are talking about, mate?

Nintendo is kid friendly. It’s aimed at a wholesome audience like the hallmark channel lol. 24/7 holiday feel good. Not every game needs a miserable and depressing story to be fun. I just don’t see what that has to with anything. You can even be an adult that’s fanatical about wholesome characters without being an abusive loser who preys on kids. Leave people (Especially kids) alone and I don’t care what you’re into lol.

Nintendo started PC and SJW environment, like no blood in MK games. Nintendo can be blamed for a lot of things.

"Nintendo started PC and SJW environment, like no blood in MK games. Nintendo can be blamed for a lot of things."

Sony also censor third party games, even games that Nintendo won't censor. Do you blame Sony for that?

Had to take a break defending TLOU2 to crap on Nintendo for a minute? Lots of adults on here abnormally obsessed over Naughty Dog games, isn’t that a bit weird?

Dude isn't attacking Ninendo, nearly every game they release is rated E. They make games aimed at a younger audience. That's not slander it's just fact. It's fine.

He even clarified he wasn't saying fandom was bad, just the wierdo obsessions that happen to be a real problem apparently.

How can you be more triggered by a comment on a website than alleged pedophilia?

"Dude isn't attacking Ninendo, nearly every game they release is rated E."

A game rated as E doesn't automatically mean it is only for children, like whatever Silverhawk is saying. Games like Fifa is rated E, but that doesn't mean only "children" is playing it.

"How can you be more triggered by a comment on a website than alleged pedophilia?"

You should take a short look at his comment history when it comes to the Switch and Nintendo as a whole.

@King_Noctis
Yes we do know what we're talking about... mate.
Nintendo makes a lot of games targeting a much younger audience. That is a simple and incredibly obvious fact. It's been that way for over 3 decades and only just recently shifted allowing many more adult oriented games to be released on their platforms.

Over the past 30 years how many mature and up (or equivalent depending on your region) games were released on Nintendo platforms? How many Teen rated games?
Not many even less that actually sold decently meaning that people who purchased a Nintendo device didn't want teen an mature rated games anyway.

So why are people acting like this is strange or breaking-news all the sudden?

The argument that Nintendo is made for families is a better one than saying it's made for adults or even for teens entering college. Save for the Switch Nintendo has primarily made games for younger children pre-teens and young teenagers. H••l even when I was in HS I found it weird that people were still talking about Pokémon and there weren't that many people doing that and basically all of them were outcasts. I'm not saying it was right for the other kids to shut them out for liking games made for a younger audience at all just telling you that's how it was. Personally I only liked Pokémon Yellow and I actually wound up replaying it as a adult on a New Nintendo 3DS which I used to play Super Mario World again as well those games are classics, but had I been introduced to them now I probably wouldn't understand the entertainment value of the title.

What we have today is a bunch of adults playing brand new Nintendo games that they may or may not have had previous exposure to and do so with the intention of getting closer to strangers children... Lots of red flags there in my opinion. I don't think there are inherent risks of Nintendo gamers being pedophiles. However it would also be completely stupid to ignore the possibility that these online games do not pose a risk for your children to potentially meet a pedophile and for the parents to potentially allow their children to meet with a pedophile under false pretenses due to positive online interactions.

This may be somewhat less of an issue when the parents are fully aware that the system is used by people of all ages. Doesn't mean there are less pedophiles playing on PlayStation, Xbox, Win/OSX/Lin and/or Android/iOS.

Seriously look into "Prey On Predators" they catch all kinds of pedos gaming on PC, PS and Xbox (text logs to prove it as well). Not a good look.
Bottom line is pedos are everywhere not just in Nintendo's camp.

Yeah, except for when someone like me who was born in 1983 liking Nintendo and it's characters... So apparently something I grew up on makes me a pedophile? You're retarded.

It is fine that you want to believe that stupid nonsense, but the Switch still has more quality games than the Xbox One. Do I need to guess what your a fan of?

@rememberthe357 I have had my conversations on other websites about the pedophilia and how toxic the community is. The most disappointing to me was zero, as I was a fan of his videos. Back to this guys comment, a quick scroll through his history shows nothing but Sony “fanatic” behavior in his words. There are several posts of him attacking Nintendo and Microsoft. He’s clearly doing the same here.

@_SilverHawk_

Funny you say that. You should've seen the shit A LOT of adults who are obsessive over a game marketed for adults did to a developer and the people who worked on it because a character was killed off.

Fanatics are trash.

First off this whole conversation is devolving into liking Nintendo games (or games that are E rated) makes you a pedo which is false and insulting.

Second let's keep perspective here, tens of millions of people play Nintendo games yet were talking about a few bad actors. Some of you are acting like the >1% of people who violate the rules are the majority.

Let's not get into condemning Nintendo or people who play E rated games over the actions of a TINY TINY fraction of people who enjoy them. Personally I'd be more concerned with the increasingly realistic violence portrayed in gaming than how colorful and friendly Mario is.

@hakuoro
This article isn’t about the millions playing smash. It’s about the smash competitive community. The people who play “pro” in live tournaments. 50 prominent people in the competitive tournament scene is a lot bro. That’s crazy. “There’s no way everyone didn’t know this” crazy.

@OMNlPOTENT
I appreciate the response and whether or not the guy is a shill I felt like the responses here are overblown and figured I'd say something. What's being alleged is so much worse that any comment on this site. But it is what it is, I shouldn't be trying to tell people what to value.

@Noctis
I get that a game being rated E doesn't automatically make the game "for children only." I get that Mario and Zelda aren't Teletubbies and Blue's Clues. But Nintendo themselves would tell you they aim at a younger audience than Sony and MS, it's not a problem and it's nothing to be ashamed of. My point was that the observation wasn't even a criticism and yet the guy was attacked as if it was. I don't go into people's comments and try to discern their true motives so maybe you're right, maybe he was just throwing subliminals at you guys and it went over my head.

I'm not trying to single out Nintendo here. This is a thing with every company everywhere. It may not be done in an attempt to pander, but that is ultimately what statements like this are for the purpose of the public.

"So, at what point are we allowed to take people for their word?"

It's not always the companies fault that something bad happens. Sometimes it is, but there are bad seeds everywhere, and companies are compelled to say something publicly. I personally don't care what they say publicly, I care about what they do internally. But, in that vein, at what point are people going to realize that not everything is required to be a public execution, and hold the people responsible at fault instead of the companies themselves, which aren't always the ones that need to be implicated. Further, when are people going to accept that companies generally already have policies for this stuff, and if and when it becomes a systemic problem with the company, should it become something that may require more than internal, or professional intervention.

I actually think this world would sometimes be a better place if everyone stopped acting like they needed to solve everyone else's problems.