theprof00 on 06 August 2013
| MohammadBadir said: ....didn't Samus already prove this? |
Actually I'd say it proved the opposite. In games where the persona behind the mask was known by the majority beforehand, the sales did not do well. Similarly, even in the very first Metroid on NES, the fact that the main character is a chick was a huge reveal at the end. It was very surprising. Sure you might say that at this point, everyone knows Samus is a woman, but that's not necessarily true. If we're going to consider sales as a metric of how well a game can sell with a female protagonist, we have to remember that there are still a lot of new gamers out there who pick games based on the boxart.
