As long as we all raise our kids this way, they won't be out of touch with their peers!
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2025
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Nah... it's okay. She won't be out of touch. Nintendo is going to release these games for the Switch 2 for $80.
Spiderman 2: I solely play as Peter Parker. My daughter solely plays as Miles Morales. I wish the game was 2 player.
Minecraft: my daughter watches the YouTube videos yet somehow I'm the one who got us diamond armor. Go figure.
Super Mario Odyssey: She always makes me Mario and she's a good cappy.
She's not even remotely athletic but she's brainy and is pretty popular with her friends. Go figure.
I think the trick is to just let kids play what they want
as a kid I grew up with basically every generation of nintendo consoles up to the Wii U, as well as a PC (well, a mac really but whatever) and I turned out fine
i missed out on some of the big sensations of the moment, like fortnite or COD, but tbh I didn’t care, these games never interested me and they still don’t
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I feel this is exactly the same as boomers who raised thier kids on exclusively 70 and 80s "classic" rock.
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Gaming peaked with the Wii, LOL
I had a chipped Wii during uni and so we (flatmates + me) downloaded and burned a vast ocean of Wii games.
I don't really see it as the peak of gaming. There's a few good games, like SMG 1 & 2, but I'd be hard pressed to name more than ten exclusives worth revisiting. So much shovelware and low quality ports.
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I am and I don't care.
I got a Miyoo Mini plus for mine, installed onionos and loads of games from internet archive. They love it, maybe one day I'll set up my dusty wiiU but i only have Mario kart for it. Or some kind of minipc set up.
meh, maybe one AAA game a year is worth buying, old or indie games are way better
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This will be me when I have children and I am not sorry.
I'll help them build that foundational understanding of what games were and then if they still wanna play the modern bs, they can.
There are people who grew up with game but are well rounded and sociable. It depends entirely on the person and the type of environment they grew up in.
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Good. May they learn to never preorder.