superjawes wrote:Realize that several people who grew up with a NES, SNES, and/or N64 already have children, and therefore a lot less time to devote to such things...
It's not like they don't have other consoles which they aren't avidly using.
superjawes wrote:And as with most new consoles, the biggest games were not released on the same day. Zelda is slated for 2013, I guess (lol, Zelda always gets delayed), but it's going to take a year or two before the games that people, especially Nintendo fanboys, really want are released.
But, in the case of the people I am speaking of, they were excited for the Wii even beyond Twilight Princess.
JBI wrote:...and some of us are actually in between children and grand-children right now, but have other hobbies and are having a mid-life career crisis (and therefore have little time for gaming for other reasons).
Sure, but if it was something that blatant I would have mentioned it. Again, the people I'm thinking of are still regularly to be found at game-stores on certain Tuesdays. They're just not doing that sort of thing for Nintendo stuff anymore.