Zoombael said:
Ok. Ill try to mansplain it to you as good as i can. Please try to understand and please dont go all wilderbeastly and witchcrafty on me.
When female gamers asked which gender they prefer when given the option, the majority goes for a female character. Same goes for male gamers, prefering male characters. No problem there, right? And what goes for a singular can also be applied to a group. What goes for the individual is applicable to a collective. If we go back in time, to the beginnings of video games, what come to mind when we think of the first consoles? Intellivision, Magnavox Odyssey. What was targeted demographic? Exactly. It was everyone. Young, old, girl, boy, a thing the the whole family can enjoy. Or... there was no specific age or gender the marketeers had in mind. After the great crisis of the north american video game industry this changed. It changed with none other than Nintendo. When setting up the stage for the NES it was determined to narrow the target audience, for marketing to be more focused, thus more effective. They went out to find out who plays videogames the most. It was the Boys. To this day this hasnt changed much...
Generations of male gamers building, supporting, growing up the whole video entertainment art form. Growing attached to franchises, consoles, videogame icons and developers.
The issue isnt how much and in what way women are represented. The problem is, you - the women - are hostile invaders. You are entering someones abode and redecorate very much to his dismay. You are the girls besieging the boys tree house...
..trying to conquer, for the sole purpose of making yourself comfortable in it with all your girly stuff.
Nono, it is you who gyrals the whole thing into a social political drama. I'm not the one bursting into a Girls Only Night and screams: "Misandristic Bitches!"
When i saw the reveal of the newest mainline Gears Of War, i was baffled. For a overwhelmingly male audience? Hu.. thatsuuhh...
Also mindboggling was Microsofts decision to make turnbased Gears game a PC exclusive. Of a franchise that has its mainbase on a console. But they made the Halo RTS available for the Xbox. |
That is prohibited knowledge. We need to believe that for some reason the patriarch made that even pong was a game that was aimed at boys.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."