Pokemon X/Y is set to capture the female audience. And why the 3DS needs a price cut even more than the WiiU

[Otakumegane]

RolStoppable said:

Otakumegane said:

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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.

There are constantly new Pokékids. There are also constantly people who drop out for various reasons.

Nintendogs didn't fail because of shortcomings in gameplay. It couldn't retain a huge playerbase, because it has no unique content that is locked to Nintendo hardware. You pet a normal dog and do normal dog stuff; all that can be replicated on other platforms, so an abundance of pet games everywhere eats away at the appeal of Nintendogs. Pokémon clones don't hurt Pokémon, because Pokémon still has its own world and hundreds of stupid viechers.

Then what made Nintendogs so successful when you could've already give a normal dog normal dog stuff to do on other platforms?

I remember helping my sister play a Barbie game (actually I think I played it more) on the computer with my sister when she was 4 way back before Nintendogs.

You could already pet dogs/horses and others with a mouse hand and bathe em. That's like saying that if the Kinect and the PS Move were never made the Wii would be still selling like a lot.

I find it hard to believe that Kinectimals and the like would kill Nintendogs. All of the other CoD clones out there aren't killing CoD. Nintendogs failed to create a fanbase like CoD did, and a fanbase is born when there's solid gameplay that comes with the game. People weren't buying +cats because they didn't have much fun with the original.