Sony: PS4 will appeal to women too

[Kantor]

badgenome said:

Kantor said:

When I saw the title I assumed they were going to release a pink PS4 or some other "female-friendly" nonsense.

But this... so releasing an Angry Birds on your console is going to attract women? My silly old-fashioned mind says that you attract female gamers the same way as you attract male gamers: by making good games.

I don't think "the next Angry Birds" was intended to literally mean the next iteration of the Angry Birds series, wot.

Of course he doesn't literally mean Angry Birds, I said an Angry Birds, as in an equivalent of Angry Birds. I'm pointing out that a small downloadable title like he's describing (presumably, since those are the titles with the closest gender ratios) is not going to be a killer app for his system. People buy it because they already own the systems that use it, not the other way around.

Unless he thinks that Angry Birds has a favourable gender ratio because it has high sales? So I guess Super Mario Bros had a 50/50 split too? What about San Andreas?

It's wrong whichever way you look at it.