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A lot more parents now know what Steam is. Is almost 25 years old, and has been popular for 10+ years.
That means 10 year old kids with 35-40 year old parents have parents that were in their teens and 20s when Steam got popular.
yeah i don't understand why so many people make this sort of assumption. i literally use my dad's steam account and have since i was 7 years old. a pretty substantial portion of g*mers are 40+, its not some edgelord youth thing anymore.
and maybe i'm just poor, but nintendo stuff hasn't been a cute little thing you throw at your kid to keep them distracted since the GBA. now their consoles cost a month's rent and no one can spare that right now.
For 6-10 year old kids Nintendo is still considered the "safe" company, but they ungated the shop so it's kinda moot other than parental controls (which everything else has too).
The Switch is less the kid console now and more a Mario Kart/Smash machine