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Look at that dip for teenagers too "cool" to be playing Nintendo, followed by that gigantic spike for people in their early 20s. Reminds me of this Awkward Zombie comic:
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Awkward Zombie - The Pokemon Effect
Gags and goofs about videogames and the things that happen in them.
The $20 sub is fine value. The expansion pack certainly is not. I'll probably re-up for the $20 sub when Splatoon 3 comes out and maybe buy the N64 pad too (if the MacOS compatibility is decent).
I'm betting the female demographic is 50-50 split or above. I see more and more females joining NSO, especially for the Animal Crossing DLC, which I'm wagering Nintendo was banking on to entice that demographic. Surprised to see more teens on NSO TBH. Was expecting more 40 and above age demographics to be higher
I split the family plan with the maximum amount of friends, so we pay like $4.50(?) for a year. I hear it's trivial to split it with people online too. At that price, it's close enough to free that the service is fine.
I wouldn't do $25 a year for what you get though.
As far as we know it was 50:50 even before the launch of Animal Crossing.
EEDAR: Nintendo Switch demographics (50/50 Male:Female ratio, 18-24 largest demographic)
Worth noting, this 50/50 split has been achieved before Animal Crossing has even launched, so that female ratio should get even higher by year's end. There's a lot more in the article including money spent on gaming and the top five games played by Nintendo Switch owners, well worth a read...
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"Over 250m Nintendo accounts"
Apparently I wasn't the only one who registered for an account without owning a Nintendo system for a while. 😆
Come on Nintendo, I'll come back home when you give me a powerful system again. Hopefully Switch Pro with some type of DLSS for 4k rendering. 😁
Edit- oh could also be mobile accounts. Thanks for the heads up.
Apparently I wasn't the only one who registered for an account without owning a Nintendo system for a while. 😆
Come on Nintendo, I'll come back home when you give me a powerful system again. Hopefully Switch Pro with some type of DLSS for 4k rendering. 😁
Edit- oh could also be mobile accounts. Thanks for the heads up.
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Oh cool. That's definitely a good thing to hear.As far as we know it was 50:50 even before the launch of Animal Crossing.
EEDAR: Nintendo Switch demographics (50/50 Male:Female ratio, 18-24 largest demographic)
Worth noting, this 50/50 split has been achieved before Animal Crossing has even launched, so that female ratio should get even higher by year's end. There's a lot more in the article including money spent on gaming and the top five games played by Nintendo Switch owners, well worth a read...
I'll always take more and better for the same price, but NSO has been a great value for me. Especially since the voucher system basically covered 3 years of it for me. NES, SNES, Tetris 99 and Pac-Man 99 for basically no cost for 3 years is a great value.
Honestly, I was shocked how many drinking games are played using Beerio Kart, Beerio Party, and Super Shot Bros.
My main problem is that Nintendo offers less than even what they had on Wii U and Wii with Virtual Console releases, Netflix, web browsing/YouTube, etc.
For $20 a year and what they offer 32 million is alright. If they were more aggressive in offering their first party NES and SNES games on it and had 1-2 extra Switch online games like Tetris 99 and Pac-man 99 I could see it hitting 40 before 2023. Though I'm assuming Nintendo feels that they hit the cap on growing the service since they launched the expansion this year. Which would be a shame if true as I think there is still lots of room to grow there with a bit more effort.
Interested in seeing how they plan to keep people subbed to the expansion service as the price is at a high enough barrier. That a good constant offering might be required to keep people subscribed year over year.
Interested in seeing how they plan to keep people subbed to the expansion service as the price is at a high enough barrier. That a good constant offering might be required to keep people subscribed year over year.
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People during their teens are insecure and want to prove they are mature adults. Thus they shun content that is perceived as kiddy or aimed for children and gravitate towards things like Call of Duty. After they leave their teens, they realize how silly and immature that mindset is and are nostalgic for childhood experiences they enjoyed.
So I guess by that logic, PS Plus really sucks? You're also leaving out that Sony had a huge corporate data hack during this period.
Yeah and PC online gaming is free too while console gamers spent 60 bucks and more for it ...what's your point ?
Damn, there are 8 million people who played their Switch last year, but have yet to turn it on this year?
Must be all those Animal Crossing COVID quarantine folks.
Must be all those Animal Crossing COVID quarantine folks.
For what it's worth, have we had information yet on whether or not the expansion pack specifically is doing well?
women, not "females" women. It's not your lizard you're talking about.
No, but my point is that their player base is so big and diverse that what people on this site think as well as the number of dislikes a video gets doesn't matter.
Most mobile apps use the NAcc; also, for some time now, if you want to purchase NNID content off the website, you'll need a connected NAcc with fused money.
The original NSO video has a similar dislike ratio to the expansion pack one.
Technically female is appropriate and correct grammar use in this context.
Though personally I try to reword sentences to avoid the use of the word.
Pretty sure their point was that the service is a bad value compared to similar services in the industry, despite its low price, and people should demand more. Rhetorical questions when their point was obvious. If you disagree say so rather than... helping them make their case?
Wait, are we not supposed to be referred to as female? I must have missed something...
What current console service offers more at 20€ a year ? No disrespect but if you really think customers are loosing their sleep because of the NSO price point I don't know what to tell you. That's cheaper than 2 Netflix months.
It's a shame that more of their games don't reflect their diverse audience. Hopefully that changes going forward outside of one or two studios.
The use of "female" as a noun draws comparisons to sexist Ferengi in Star Trek. This has caused such a revulsion towards the word that some bristle even when its used as an adjective. But hey, seeing as it's right in your own fucking profile, I wouldn't sweat it.
Female demographic? Sure. Someone saying they have personally seen "more and more females" joining Nintendo online is weird to me. The discussion around using females vs. women is old and commonplace though, a cursory Google will yield the arguments around it if you're curious. Might be interesting at least?
Basically, the way I've understood the discussion around it: "female" is an adjective, used to modify a word, while "woman" is a noun. Referring to, say, a female singer might be fine - maybe too clinical in the wrong context. Referring to "females", especially if you aren't also using "males" the same way, comes across as weird and dehumanizing.
It does matter, those are the early adopters and word of mouth.
It's about distancing oneself from incel talk or something.
Bye bye Virtual Console.
Doesn't that pretty much put to rest the whole "Nintendo's customers are mostly kids" ... it's overwhelmingly adults, just like the audience for comic book movies is overwhelming adults (18+) even though comic books at one time were thought of as a kids medium.
Unless I'm looking at it wrong it looks like the Switch has more active users in the 40+ year old range than it does in the 7-12 year old demo.
Doesn't that pretty much put to rest the whole "Nintendo's customers are mostly kids" ... it's overwhelmingly adults, just like the audience for comic book movies is overwhelming adults (18+) even though comic books at one time were thought of as a kids medium.
Unless I'm looking at it wrong it looks like the Switch has more active users in the 40+ year old range than it does in the 7-12 year old demo.