PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox all have a reputation, whether it's earned or not. PlayStation is known for its big, cinematic games full of action and emotional stories; Nintendo is known for its family-friendly games and colorful platformers full of creativity and wonder; and Xbox is known for being Xbox. I'll let you decide what that means.
After a five year absence, its discovery in Mario Kart World has confirmed Nintendo's longest-running easter egg lives on.
On the surface, that would imply that Nintendo consoles are for kids, while PlayStation consoles are for the full-grown taxpayer, but we know that it's a little more complicated than that. It's true that Nintendo does cater more towards younger audiences though, and I can guarantee that more people were introduced to gaming via Nintendo consoles than PlayStation or Xbox.
One person that also recognizes this is former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida, who credits Nintendo with "bringing a younger audience into gaming" on a recent episode of the Kit and Crysta podcast. In the episode, he talks a little bit about how Sony perceives Nintendo, claiming that there's a "huge respect" between the two, but the latter hopes that it can scoop...
