They need to add some aspect to the game that is playable at home.
An 11 year old kid can't go out at night and catch Pokemon on their own, but they sure as heck can sit at home playing games.
I'm an old man but I do most of my game playing from bed at night and in the morning (terrible habit I know) and so does my wife. I'd love to be able to add Pokemon to my daily games rotation but right now I can't.
I think I’d disagree. There’s no shortage of games you can play at home; with or without friends, online or off. And it’ll have a much more difficult time competing with them, because it’s a surprisingly shallow game.
But getting the same 11yo to spend his weekends in the park instead of on the couch .. that’s a turning point we’ve been missing for years.
Is this the children's fault, or adult's? What I mean is, do children play ball sports, or skateboard, or just generally hang out on playscapes anymore? I remember fondly of just messing around in wooded areas and stinking like high heaven like pond scum upon my return.
I suspect I'm the wrong person to answer that, having very little exposure to today's children.
Over the span of my youth (I'm 34, so consider this 80s-90s) I lived the transition from building forts in the woods and rafts on the rivers (never went well, never stopped us trying) to arguing over who's turn it was on the playstation.
Now I read articles about "free-range children" and parents getting in trouble for even letting them walk to school, and .. I realise I'm biased by my inputs (no-one writes articles saying "hey, nothing's changed"), but it seems like this is a different era. And damnit, I'm not old enough to call things eras yet.
But it does seem the 'mobile' has been missing in 'mobile gaming'. We've built an entire industry on "always available gaming" or "something to stare at on the subway gaming", but it's taken 34yo men playing what's basically an easter-egg hunt, to remind us what 'mobile' actually means.
In my early 20s. But my experience was that kids balanced "outsideness" and "insideness". Maybe one day you'd sit around on the PlayStation for six hours. The next you would bike out to the woods.
I think most kids still intrinsically like the outdoors-- there is a lot of cool stuff out there.
An 11 year old kid can't go out at night and catch Pokemon on their own, but they sure as heck can sit at home playing games.
I'm an old man but I do most of my game playing from bed at night and in the morning (terrible habit I know) and so does my wife. I'd love to be able to add Pokemon to my daily games rotation but right now I can't.