| libellule said: the only console that has any appeal to that demographic is the Wii (My Sims, Animal Crossing, WarioWare, Boogie, all the Petz games etc). ==> I dont think girl only play to "barbie game"... Personnaly, I think Wii line-up is the worst cause if u take the WW most wanted game on internet, I presume 8 are coming to PS3 and/or Xbox360 2 are coming to Wii The lake of third party title this Xmas should play against the wii |
If 'barbie' games didn't appeal to Females, then I'm pretty sure EA, Nintendo, Ubisoft etc wouldn't make these games in the first place. The fact is they do, and if they didn't then these companies would be making different games to bring in this demographic. The fact remains, Wii has a third of console sales all to itself.
As I said, it doesn't matter what you think. Put simply, you're being very very nieve if you think stuff like Lair, Heavenly Sword and Drakes Fortress can compare to games which have proven sales behind them and are familiar franchises to the mainstream (and more ignorant) consumer. Grand Theft Auto was the only PS3 game that people would be familiar with on the PS3, and now it's not on the Christmas line up PS3 is yet again left to try and sell consoles to the nishe hardcore gamer market (which the 360 is trying to get as well). Meanwhile the Wii is competing for this market (albeit not as competitively), but at the same time bring in sales from many other markets such as female gamers and the pre-teens, which PS3/360 simply don't appeal too.
