6. Nintendo Is "Immature", Call of Duty Is "Mature"
I'll admit that I'm not Nintendo's biggest fan, simply because I don't really enjoy their more dialed-down, bright artistic style, and there's only so much time I can spend rescuing Princess Zelda
again, but I would never dare to deem Nintendo "immature", but simply catering to a taste very different to my own. To the same token, there's this belief among many gamers that simply because a game has sex, swearing and violence in it, that it's "mature". Though the Call of Duty games, for instance, are rated "M for Mature" in America, that is merely referring to the
adult nature of the content, and given how wantonly these games advocate gung-ho violence, they're really anything but mature. Furthermore, "mature" games that depict nude women with ridiculously proportioned bodies are anything but mature; they're just the lame, immature fantasy of someone who is clearly not getting enough female attention in real life. With its intricate level design, Mario is indeed intelligent and mature, whereas games that promote the same old notions of gratuitous violence and casual sexism are anything but.