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This is the craziest thing I’ve heard in a while. They shouldn’t have connected game systems either?

numbsafari 8mo ago
No, because those devices have little or no controls and those controls are easily bypassed and/or not honored by the platform.
mghackerlady 8mo ago
I think they should. Theres a fine line between beneficial and detrimental. I had a 3DS growing up and could browse the web with its very gimped browser, and I think something like that is actually very good for a child (able to access the internet and view simple and informative sites while being too limited to access social media and the like)
trashb 8mo ago
Have you ever visited any game store and turned off nsfw protection? I love gaming, but I hate all the smutt games. It discredits the medium, essentially what has also happened to anime.
- rkomorn 8mo ago
  I'm kinda baffled about the Switch store's quantity of dating/whatever adult-ish games. I don't really want to turn on age-based filters (to the point that I've never investigated if they even exist) but at this rate, there's hardly anything worth looking at in the recent feed.
  - WorldPeas 8mo ago
    The target demographics for Nintendo products have shifted from kids to.. kidults? Most kids nowadays play on phones or in rarer cases PC/Xbox, Nintendo's lost much of their cache (in my visible experience) save for children parented by the "mindful milennial" types
    - rkomorn 8mo ago
      Makes sense but there's just... so much of it. That and all the shovelware. It's just hard to imagine that's anything close to what Nintendo wants users to experience, but I guess they need the money.
      - WorldPeas 8mo ago
        They really could find a niche in making phones for kids that have walled-garden internet access, they were so good at doing so with the ds but alas..
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duped 8mo ago
The problem is unrestricted access to mobile devices. A game console or desktop PC isn't as big of a deal.
- raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
  What’s the difference? They all reach the same internet

No, because those devices have little or no controls and those controls are easily bypassed and/or not honored by the platform.

mghackerlady 8mo ago

I think they should. Theres a fine line between beneficial and detrimental. I had a 3DS growing up and could browse the web with its very gimped browser, and I think something like that is actually very good for a child (able to access the internet and view simple and informative sites while being too limited to access social media and the like)

trashb 8mo ago

Have you ever visited any game store and turned off nsfw protection? I love gaming, but I hate all the smutt games. It discredits the medium, essentially what has also happened to anime.

rkomorn 8mo ago
I'm kinda baffled about the Switch store's quantity of dating/whatever adult-ish games. I don't really want to turn on age-based filters (to the point that I've never investigated if they even exist) but at this rate, there's hardly anything worth looking at in the recent feed.
- WorldPeas 8mo ago
  The target demographics for Nintendo products have shifted from kids to.. kidults? Most kids nowadays play on phones or in rarer cases PC/Xbox, Nintendo's lost much of their cache (in my visible experience) save for children parented by the "mindful milennial" types
  - rkomorn 8mo ago
    Makes sense but there's just... so much of it. That and all the shovelware. It's just hard to imagine that's anything close to what Nintendo wants users to experience, but I guess they need the money.
    - WorldPeas 8mo ago
      They really could find a niche in making phones for kids that have walled-garden internet access, they were so good at doing so with the ds but alas..

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duped 8mo ago

The problem is unrestricted access to mobile devices. A game console or desktop PC isn't as big of a deal.

raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
What’s the difference? They all reach the same internet