Its bullshit to call Nintendogs a non game, its just another sim like any other sim, sims are just as much games as RpGS or Fighting games, they appeal to a different group of peopel but not nescasarily so called non gamers. I knwo a lot of people who are not gamers in the sense like they enjoy games and keep up with them or even knwo much about them, but still like to sit down and playa game once in a while.
Its like movies, therees people into fantasy and sci fi and theres people into romantic comedies and theres peopel who onlyw anct either drama reality based stuff or documentaries. Nintendogs falls under documentary and is for thopse kidns of people, mario kart is more like the teeny comedy that aduls can enjoy but arent likely to seek it out, Castlevania is the horror flick every body wants to see. Gamers and movie watchers are very similar and if you look back at ALL video game jistory tehre have been COUNTLESS games that if put on the DS all of a sudden will be label Non games.
I hate the word non game its such bullshit it makes me sick. If it was the so called non gamers buying the DS how come those Poker games and Soliotare and Tetris havent sold millions of copies yet? people who dont play video games play card games and tetris, thats a fact of life ask anybody. A Gamer will sit down and play an action game or platform game but a sports nut who isnt a gamer will still pick up Madden Football, a video game based ona real game yet some peole dismiss psorts game as video game altogether. Every person is different, I ama hard core gamer, i practicaly live for video games, Nintendogs still appeals to me and so doesa electroplankton but so far nothing has sold me on Animal Crossing yet.
When my parents buy a DS and other adults who casualy play games with me when they see one they like, thast when teh so called non gamer strategy will be working, right now its just Nintendo maintaining a hold they have had for fifteen years, and counting.
I honestly cant beleive how many peole will eat up anythign a Nintendo PR rep spits out, especaily hwo people take AReggie and makje him into some sort of rock star, its so wierd its scary. Nintendo has been talking about reaching out to nongamers like its the key to this treasure nobody else can figureout how to tap into, except more casual gamers have been atracted to Playstation 2 than GC because it offers more variety of games for peopel to chose from, only hard core gamers who just play video games even consider a game cube or kids or Nintenod fans. The DS success only transaltre into more money for Nintendo to use to market the rev but not nescasarily equals gsarunteed success for the unit. BUT I am happy to see Nintendo finnaly beat SOny at something.
Sorry for the rant I just had somethings to say that needed said, Also Ians right on, the DS had its slow period where Sony coulud have easily over taken it but they came out with the games at just the right time. Sony will be hard pressed to catch up now but I wouldnt count them out just yet. Not in regards to PS3 anyways.
Topic: DS Sold Out in Japan (Read 9979 times)
