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He does! I guess I wasn't clear, he's got an XBox for minecraft and stuff, but I ignore it because I'm not interested in those games. So he plays that by himself, with his friends, or with his mom.

I just happen to have a NES classic for myself, and that's what he chooses to play with me.

I think having three consoles is crazy, but I have promised him the third when/if he completes Mario.

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Minecraft is really great - I would stop ignoring it and play it with your kid. My two "non-gamer" daughters play it several times a week together. They have done so for nearly 10 years.

My son was ruined after we started using mods. The ones he sees on Youtube are all paid things on the MS store, but now he believes I can just magic them out of my hat.

On the plus side, we have a great deal of fun playing hide and seek with the morph modpack.

His friends all play minecraft on the Switch, but they don’t have mods so he thinks it boring.

Don’t show him Roblox

Too late. Some of the games on there are actually kind of fun though.

Now that he’s accepted that I’m not going to buy any Robux it’s ok.

Just curious if other people feel the same way? My kid is right on the edge of the Minecraft-Roblox divide and I don’t have a strong opinion either way (he’s almost 7)

Thinking about your kids „safety“ (that’s a strong word, but consider gambling, violent content, scammers, etc.), Minecraft is definitely a better choice for a child. Get him into Java Edition rather than Bedrock edition and most of the mods are free, there’s a lot of tinkering he can do with it and practically all of the games content single- and multiplayer is absolutely child-safe.

Roblox is a lot more open-ended with what it lets it’s users create, which leads to a lot of violent and not safe for children content, mixed with some pretty aggressive monetization. I don’t have a child, but if I did I’d rather let them play Call of Duty (one of the older ones without microtransactions) than leave them alone with Roblox.

Call of Duty has microtransactions now? Welp.

Only for a decade or so.

Mixed bag. Lots of scammers as well. Also lots of tears.

Oh nice I misunderstood and thought you forbade all games until he finished mario 1. I thought the poor kiddo couldnt play with his friends :(

We have a switch, a Wii, and a PlayStation 3. The Wii gets the most play.