theprof00 on 13 March 2009
@ringo
no it's that you chose to interpret everything differently than the context that was provided.
your original comment:
And if Nintendo is grabbing women's attention in proportion to men's, do they really need to focus more on that demographic? Their strategy is to hit all demographics with every game (not true), and it's obviously paying off. Seems to me that Sony and MS should be worrying about appealing more to women... (don't know why you are including sony or ms in this)
my answer
well ringo, for one, in Japan, the demographic with the most disposable income is women about 16-30.
more appeal to women=higher sales
You said: So you think that Nintendo, rather than trying to appeal to everybody, should appeal specifically to women. (I never said that) Do you think there's more money in a game that targets women specifically, even if it alienates potential male buyers?
ringo I think the lesson that we've learned from Nintendo this gen is that no matter what game comes out and who it's targeted at, it will not dissuade other people from buying the system. (this was in response to your alienating buyers comment)
I think there are already a lot of games on the Wii that target women. None of the wii owners here seem to be any less enthusiastic about the system. (This is to counter your "games that appeal to every demographic argument as well as counter that no male buyers have been alienated)
The bigger problem is that there just aren't enough games that target men (this should say specifically and that is my fault that i felt that out). As long as making a game that targets women doesn't cause another male-targeted game to be canceled, it should be fine. (This last part is my own opinon of the wii, that I will still buy one as long as they don't give up on strictly male type games)
This is where I don't know what happened to you:
Who are we talking about here? I thought we were talking about Nintendo, since that's the only company the OP names.I can't even think of a Wii game Nintendo has made which targets women. (I think you meant to write "specifically" here because according to your original statement, each game appeals to both sexes. Also, in the context of your final argument I don't understand here how target and appeal is really that different in meaning that it decides an entire argument)Do you think Wii Music or Animal Crossing would have sold better if it specifically targeted women? (Here, despite me talking about multiple games that in no way affected each other, you talk about making a game more appealing to women, instead of just making more games that appeal to women)
So I wrote:
Oh, are we talking first party? (responding to your assertation that there aren't any wii games that target women)
Immediately I would say Wii fit, animal crossing.... I'm sure there are others.(evidence) Those of course are up for debate, but not an interesting one. (you can always say that they can appeal to both men and women but you can really say that about anything to varying levels of degree where no degree is exactly outlined officially), but I don't know why. The commercials for animal crossing had 2 women talking to each other while they played the game online. Commercials usually are pointed directly at the demographic, by using the demographic in it. I'm sure you know that already, I'm just backing up my point.(already explained)Honestly I don't know what appeals to women as far as gaming is concerned. The only game that I know that girls love is <Maximum Risky Alert> hide the penis. jk...but there is that wiibrator thingamajig....Japanese girls like dating games and online social games. In Japan, some women actually get paid to play games online with "boyfriends". But like I said, I really wouldn't know how to appeal more to women. (This part is more of a response to you saying games should appeal to women MORE. This response is saying... I don't know how it would be done because I thought wii fit and those kinds of games did target women as much as possible. There really is no definitive "girl's game" so we can only say that these "male/female-targ
