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Dryden on 22 June 2007
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WiiGirl76 said:

Learning English games is important to the Japanese as many Japanese don't understand a word of English.

You don't hear me complaining for them to release kanji games and even DS Japanese dictionaries and I can tell you...they seriously rock! There are no better dictionaries then the ones on the DS, since then I hardly ever use the paper guides.

So the comments out here are real lame flaming, you should be glad there are developers who make it easier for people to learn a language and there's not a better way of learning on a fun way instead of listening to a boring teacher :P

 


FWIW, one of the reasons I bought the DS (aside from being able to play RPGs in bed and on the road) is for the promise of educational, non-gaming titles. I think the dictionary/encyclopedia-like apps such as the Bartender and Winemaking/tasting DS titles from EA could be HUGE movers in the US. Brain Age and Cooking Mama are fine fare for about 10 minutes while they're new, but those only scratch the surface of educational non-games for the DS, which have for the most part been entirely ignored in the US to this point.

I would buy up "learning German" or "learning Japanese" titles in a heartbeat if they were marginally interesting/rewarding time-wasters.

I guess I just fail to see why one has to be mutually exclusive to the other. Just because I would enjoy playing Brain Age on the pot doesn't make me a non-gamer or a casual gamer, it only illustrates the point of how diverse a system the DS is and why it's selling the way it is. Eventually, I need *something* that's a diversion to 100-hour marathons of Final Fantasy III, Diamond/Pearl, or Zelda. These "edutainment" titles are perfect.

// agree with John Lucas, the gamer elitism is not only becoming a tired act of sour fanboys, but it also displays a ridiculous level of narrow-mindedness, and therefore, IMHO, ignorance.