I really think some people need to drive this into their skulls with a really cool but really painful jackhammer.

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Soooo I'm sure we've heard it all before... "Nintendo is too kiddy" "Nintendo is for little kids" etc, etc... We've all seen those kids at school that sit around and talk about how many people they killed/raped in GTA and then proceed to make fun of the kid over there playing his stupid kiddy DS because everyone knows the PSP is for the older and more sophisticated/cool people... M rated games are where its at.

And the sad thing is, these people's numbers are humongous.

News flash. Playing a mature rated game does not make you mature. In fact, it proves your immaturity. And I'll tell you why.

NOW first of all I'm not saying that anyone who plays M rated games are immature. I'm talking to those people out there who think M rated games(and similar games radiating the same atmosphere, though may be rated T) are all they should really be playing. Nintendo does, in fact, have a more kid-friendly taste to it. They don't make M rated games. In my personal opinion here, it's because they're above that. Nintendo can make an amazing game and revolutionize the way similar games are made WITHOUT the stupid cheap gimmicks that all these noob game developers like take-two , rockstar, and EA use. The companies know that if you throw in gore and sex, people will buy. It's M rated and/or seems dark, I need to buy this. And that's all they play. The game mechanics are nearly always pretty fun and the game itself is nearly always decent as it is, but compared to a REAL game focused on the gameplay itself and not around trying to get teens to buy it, it's crap.

Katamari Damacy. Enough said.

Nintendo, at least what it seems to be, is above that commercialism crap. If they're going to make money, it's going to be because it's a good game. They are proving to everyone out there that fun exists outside of ridiculous amounts of gore and sexuality. The sad thing is, all of these companies that make these games owe everything they have to nintendo. Nintendo's the people that made games the way they are today. Nearly every popular innovation in the industry that we take for granted originates with Nintendo. They make the good stuff, and then other companies leech off of it and throw their typical gimmicks into it and make MORE money than nintendo did. It's disgraceful, in my opinion.

Anyway, back to the topic, i need to stop getting off-course here... And for my unadulterated opinion on it...

Anyone who thinks they're "too old for mario" can go screw themselves, I'd say. They're just immature and think they need to be playing more violent games. The Mature rated games attract all the less mature people, they think the only games they should be playing are the M rated ones because they think they're only for "mature" people like them. I'd call that way of thinking thinking literally retarded, because there are so many "Everyone" games that are WAAAY more complicated than the senseless gun-slinging violence games, and would actually require mature thought in its place.

When you think "DS" "Nintendo" "Gamecube" etc, and "kiddy" is the main thought about it, you're obviously a little too immature to handle the fact that M rated games don't require much maturity.

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