Gadget Girls
These two stories caught my eye yesterday. They are both talking about the same thing. One story talks about how the gaming industry is fully aware that they don’t quite get the girls in gaming market and the other tells you why…
BBC NEWS | Technology | Games industry is ‘failing women’
Sony paints the PSP pink news story in Handhelds – Pocket-lint.co.uk
When are they going to learn that you can’t just slap a coat of pink paint on something to make me want to buy it? That might work in Japan, but it sure isn’t going to work for me.
Wanna know why I bought a DS Lite instead of a Sony PSP? The games. Nintendo DS has Brain Age, Dr. Mario, Tringo and a ton of other cute little puzzle games that I can play.
Want to know my favorite game right now? Mario Kart DS. Wanna know why? Because I can play against other people and bomb them or drop banana peels for them to slip on. I get to hear them cry out when I make their cute little go-cart wreck.
Wanna know why they’re clueless? Because less than half of their programmers and game developers are women.
I don’t want to go shopping. I don’t want to choose outfits for my Bratz to wear. I don’t want to walk around a maze and shoot people with guns. I don’t want to play sports. I want simple puzzle games that I can play against my friends. It’s the friends that make gaming fun for me.