40% of Zelda sales in Japan for the DS have been for female gamers (or sort of ) ...

Its hard to deny the Ds and Wii are products for kiddies and girls .A big market for sure .

Is it? What's hard to deny is that this so called maturity ends at 25.

World population women percentage = 51%, so the Wii has exactly the same appeal to both sexes.

HA HA!

Edit:

Exactly, like its a worldwide crime there are more female gamers with Nintendo platforms, my god.

Girls... and more guys then the PS3. 

So... the Wii is winning... and the expanded audience is what's making it into an outright beating in japan.

I wonder if it's similar in the US.  I know i wouldn't have my Wii if my girlfriend didn't get it for me for my birthday.

Sadly the PS3 is out of her price range.  I'll have to save up and get that myself after i get my regular backup savings up after the inevitable christmas shopping hit.  Well and the moving to a more expensive place hit.

http://gadgetmodels.i4u.com/gadget_photo_model_wii-fangirl-leah_thumbs.html

oh yeah wii got girls.

Amen.

I laugh at the games people call "Mature". Are they GILFs? Nah, never mind that joke. Too blue for the room.

I played Animal Crossing, a cartoony game, where I had to pay a mortgage and interact responsibly with my neighbors and community. But they would call that "kiddie".

Nintendogs teaches responsibility and pet care. Brings out the nurturer in people with their videogame dogs. Yet that's a "kiddie" game.

I'm playing different Harvest Moon games where I have to manage a farm and work on making the farm business work while interating with the community and preparing for marriage. Yet that's a "kiddie" game.

But if I'm running around with realistically drawn orcs, elves, marines, secret agents hacking up/blowing up everything in sight, then that's "mature". That's an "adult" game. Only from an adolescent point of view.

Sim City? Now THAT'S a game for adults. How do you deal with crisis and how can you balance a checkbook.

Adult doesn't necessarily equal sex & violence. Nintendo knows exactly what they're doing and who could protest this anyway? It's like the football fans finally getting their girlfriends/wives not to nag them away from the game but join the man right with him and have fun watching.

People should be glad for the Wii just for opening up more of that kind of opportunity.

I'd rather be sitting with my girl at my side as we fight the evil monster together. 

John Lucas 

What a strange site. Half-naked girls with tech stuff. But not as sick as "Naked News" or that hardware review site with bikini babes.

Don't get me wrong. I like women, with or without clothes. But when you put half-naked babes together with non-erotic stuff to increase sales, it's just bizarre to me.

thats fine with me--it just means i am less likely to run into the "hardcore" mountain dew drinking pre-pubesent 13 year olds on live---so i am good

 That was in reference to me i'll take it.. if you are capable of doing simple math, as others have already done in this thread, you'll find that you can multiply the % of male gamers by the number of users per household to find the amount of male gamers per household (shocking how revealing maths and numbers are).. and from that, you will come to the same conclusion as this alleged nintendo fanboy..