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Industry News | Microsoft: No Wii for Teenagers

28.03.2007

With the Wii proving to be a greater success than many had predicted, various individuals have made negative comments toward the machine. Microsoft had been fairly positive towards the Wii since its release however John Rodman had something else to say in a recent interview, according to DailyTech.

Microsoft's group product manager for the Xbox platform and Xbox Live recently spoke on what he felt the Wii's consumers are: "We don't feel like the Wii customer and the Xbox customer are the same thing," he said "We think that as soon as the Wii customer turns 14 they want something else."

Certainly some very blunt comments - the voice of truth or some unfounded views. Have your say in our comments section below..

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Mason 28.03.2007#1

I love how all of the older Wii users are completely blanketed over and ignored with this statement...

Fenton 28.03.2007#2

LOL silly man

Jump_button 28.03.2007#3

lol im 21 i want a wii more then a 360 so he not right lol 0_o and is he saying only ppl that buy a 360 are teens lol that npt good for selling lol

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Spydarlee 28.03.2007#4

Indeed, what about the stories of 'Granny Gamers', etc that seem to pop up every other day on non-gaming sites in particular?

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JoshSL 28.03.2007#5

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Silly billy. I think there are a lot of adult fan for the Wii! Especially since kids don't really even know about the whole "YOU MUST PREORDER THIS OR U WONT GET IT LOL!!", So I think most Wii owners will be older than that. Especially since the morning I went to GAME, most of the people lined up where teens or above.

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Modplan Man 28.03.2007#6

Mason said:
I love how all of the older Wii users are completely blanketed over and ignored with this statement...

I love how there are so many more stories of Wii getting people over 14 to play it.

Especially when he's product manager for Xbox Live, I would've though he would've had some idea of the Xbox Live stereotype.

knighty 28.03.2007#7

JoshSL 28.03.2007#8

Also, he seems to be going by the way the whole of UK used to think. He's basically saying:

"After you become a teen, you will grow out of Nintendo" Smilie

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Cheesing It Up 28.03.2007#9

I know quite a few people around the age of 18 that own a Wii, with several more putting it on their 'to buy at some point' list. Of course many of these people already have an X-Box 360 as well.

JoshSL 28.03.2007#10

The Wii is very popular in my school, specifically my year, more popular than the 360. Most people in my year are 16 by now, & as I said, the Wii is popular. I know a lot of people that are trying to get it.

I also know 2 or 3 other people in my year that have one, I'm sure there are more, but if there are I don't know them very much ^^;

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Raff 28.03.2007#11

Well the only person outside internet game forums I know with a Wii is 12, but I did see a middle aged woman asking if there was stock in Choices the other day!

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.

Darkflame 28.03.2007#12

Yes, because its not like the DS widened gameing demographics..oh wait, it did.

The stupidity of this statement is not the dismissing of wide Wii appeal, but overlooking the fact its actualy the 14 year-old crowd and under that most want ""adult"" games and the most expensive machines their parents can buy.

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Laurelin 28.03.2007#13

See? I told you Microsoft isn't nice to Wiizers. I just checked my ID and am over 14 years old. And I look at X360 and think, that these players do not stay at these over and over plain boring and all the same game-titles for too long.

And I played some basic titles and see some Marketplace-games and see, that I may be as wrong as thinking, all Wii games are made of minigames.

This yound man down at Microsoft seems to not have read the memo 'be neat to Wii-guys - at least pretend - they do not know better' that M$ has sent around.

Just how does this differ from Sony's position? When Wii knibbles at Microsoft's market, then down with the friendly ado. Then rude words are the easiest opponent Nintendo has to fight against Microsoft...

I find your lack of faith disturbing!

Fenton 28.03.2007#14

To be honest, if Nintendo released a super console 6074089345340Terabyte Hard Drive, HD resolution of 3248345 x 43508745 progressive, and a 545.9terahurtz processor it would still be classed as kiddy by some.

Raff 28.03.2007#15

As a casual gamer (i.e. the playstation generation), you only have to look at the Wii section of any shop or watch any Wii ad to immediately get the impression that it's for kids and old people. Nintendo's kiddy image is entirely self inflicted, and they've never done anything significant to shift it. Trying to sell stuff to older people and women only makes that worse, and that's the been the only change in Nintendo's strategy since the NES.

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.

Ski 28.03.2007#16

The man talks s**t, I have both machines so that puts his theory to s**t.
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Gibdo 28.03.2007#17

I'm 18... oh look, you're WRONG.

Raff 28.03.2007#18

You lot are all Nintendo forum inhabitants, you don't count, at all.

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.

Zapp 28.03.2007#19

this guys deserves a slap... if there is a console that has more 14 year ols then any other its xbox.... everytime i go on xbox live there are little fucking kids on it swearing.....
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JoshSL 28.03.2007#20

As I said, I know people in my school with Wiis Grumblezorx. So THEY count, & so did the people lining up to get one on launch day, with games like Red Steel (crap as it may be) Smilie

To be honest, it's only the 10-15 year olds that are so infatuated with games that look mature, only they care about if a game is kiddy or not I reckon, & most of the games they play, they're not even old enough to play them...

I think proper gamers don't actually care what a game looks like as long as it's good, which is cool.

Though, I don't think PSOne games on Wii should count.

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Laurelin 28.03.2007#21

So when the market of under-14 and over-25 brings more money, then the crazy people between these and the ever-hungry-teens for graphics, violence, shooter and same-old-games can be ignored by Nintendo. You know what? I wouln't be surprised if the market of 14-25 would never be growing, the effort and money put into the 'ralistic gigatrillionhertz with 600x23789 resolution'-games would never be repayed and both Sony and M$ would turn and try to grab the Wii-kiddie-generation.

It may be okay today to relate on that already dried up market. But with the efforts of ever growing games they must grab more people to pay for them - and always more people. But they aren't more.
But the market isn't as easy as I describe it here or as this guy say it is. There are coregamer of all age as are casual gamers of all age. But only latter are not into the market already. So Nintendo may not cover all of them, since their effort is smaller than the wide developer base of PS2 and X360 combined, but surely the root into these casual gamers and maybe others join and release casual and core games for everyone in the family. Then Wii is enough for all of them, son (core games), daughter (Ponies and Nintendogs), Father and mother (Big Brain Academy, Sims, ...) and all together (Mario, even Zelda, Raving Rabbids,...). So who needs PS3 and X360?
Sure, that's a bit optimistic. But with every developer jumping on the Wii train right now, games may look a bit wider in the future.
And every Nintendo fanboy knows how everyone can be happy playing Nitendo's franchises.

With Lara Croft grabbing Link's Grapling Hook, Lost Planet playing like Metroid Prime with more explosions, everyone's a Nintendo-gamer. They only do not know it.

I find your lack of faith disturbing!

JoshSL 28.03.2007#22

Whatever Nintendo's image is, it's working, as the DS is a console megastar. If MS & Sony wanna catch up, they'd better try going kiddy! Smilie

Once you go kiddy, you never go back.

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Maquis 29.03.2007#23

lol the guys a dinosaur, clueless. im 34 and love Wii as do my friends. -- and interesting sidebar.. i got a Panasonic Q for my birthday yesterday! Woot! cheers L xxx

mooojc 29.03.2007#24

Well whole concept of Wii was to get people who do not normally play games, to do so, though an easy concept. So obviously Wii customers aren't the same but that dosen't mean teenagers don't want Wii. -_-