| Xen said: I only skimmed through the article, but what I can tell you from my personal experience, is that it's not there to capture the female audience, because the audience is already there - it can consolidate its hold. My girlfriend bought a DSL for Pokémon, and she has two friends with whom she regularly played Pokémon, no idea of their purchase motives, but it's there with the female audience - I know anecdote is not data, but nevertheless, I had to give this example. |
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What I meant is that it's aiming for the female children more clearly than ever in effort to try to bring them in as a new audience. 2nd generation of Pokekids. Like what Nintendogs did back in the day with a novel concept but failed to establish the audience because of the shortcomings in gameplay. But this time around, they be coupling the attraction with a game that already has tried and true gameplay core and try to keep that audience and have them return.
Evidenced by sales data that Nintendo complied, Pokemon was and still kind of is a more male franchise. They simply didn't have the need in order to establish a more universal? audience on Pokemon because they already had the Nintendogs. But they failed bring them back, so this time they are making Pokemon more equal and universally appealing because Pokemon keeps audiences.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/92109/nintendopie/ Nintendopie Was obviously right and I was obviously wrong. I will forever be a lesser being than them. (6/16/13)
