| Turkish said: -Gravity Rush -Horizon (Amazon nr1 best seller in US, UK, FR, DE etc) -Nier Automata -Tales of Berseria -Detroit -Uncharted Lost Legacy -TLOU II Seems a far cry from last gen when it was sort of tabboo by marketing people to feature a girl character prominently on the cover because it would sell less. Was Naughty Dog that broke the trend by refusing to hide away Ellie on the cover of TLOU? |
Just wanted to comment on this as a feminist female gamer:
I'm actually not familiar with some of these titles (namely Nier Automata, Tales of Berseria, and I don't even know what TLOU II stands for), but since you're including Detroit, I have to point out that when I say that a game has a female lead, I don't mean that it also has a male lead. We could also point out that Uncharted Lost Legacy is DLC, not a proper game.
THAT SAID, I would agree that there are definitely more female-centric games for PlayStation 4 than for Xbox One or Wii U (perhaps even combined). Partially that just reflects the fact that Sony's system is winning the current generation's console battle and thus is winding up with a larger game library in general, but it's also partially a reflection of Sony's increased effort in this area as a first-party publisher, e.g. Bound, Gravity Rush 2, Horizon, etc. Contrast that with say Nintendo, which doesn't have a single female-centric franchise remainng now that, as of last year, they've booted Samus Aran from the Metroid franchise. So yeah, I think that contrast does speak well of Sony.
