teamEGG
09-21-2005, 06:14 AM
I enjoy reading articles related to console games on the web, and recently there have been a lot commenting that due to advances in technology, games are becoming increasingly expensive to produce, with figures up to US20m per game, and numerous developers can't afford this expense.
The reason they can't afford this is because they aren't getting enough income, because the gaming industry isn't big enough. One of the reported reasons it isn't big enough is because there is a very small amount of females in the industry, because game producers aim too much on the "average gamer," which is 18-34 year old males.
Examples of this include "boothe babes" at game shows, hard-core violence games etc. Apparently, these things don't appeal to females.
I was thinking, what could producers do to introduce females-by-the-millions into gaming? Well, females like chatting and fashion and clothes and stuff, right? So why not combine them.
What Microsoft could do is build like, a free service for the Xbox 360 Live service, a kind of free 3D interactible chat room, where everybody with a Live connection has access to. You start of just as a male/female and you can walk around this 3D city in 3rd or 1st person view, and there are other people, shops, appartments, parks etc, and you can chat to anybody using you're Live communicator, become friends with them, trade items etc.
To get money in this virtual world, you play Live compatible games, say, in Halo 3, you get a double-kill, or win a game of slayer, you earn a certain amount of virtual money.
With this money you can then buy clothes, pets, houses, items etc. which you can use and display in this virtual world, for others to see.
It'll be like a MMORPG which resembles life.
Also, another way to earn money is mini-multiplayer-games in this virtual world, where you play stuf like table tennis or billiards against others to win money.
Nintendo is doing an excellent job at introducing more people to the gaming community. Their Nintendo DS is very innovative, and strangely enough, I've only seen one DS advertisement (apart from at Gamespot) and that was in my sister's Dolly magazine, so Nintendo is also appealing to females. Nintendogs was a great idea at introducing less violent beings to our world.
Their new Revolution controller would also appeal to a larger variety of the community, if any of you have seen the video from the Tokyo Game Show, Nintendo is aiming it at all ages and sexes.
Feel free to add suggestions to my idea, or add your own ideas of what could introduce more females to the gaming world, because the last thing any of us want is for the gaming world to die out, just as it was flourishing.
The reason they can't afford this is because they aren't getting enough income, because the gaming industry isn't big enough. One of the reported reasons it isn't big enough is because there is a very small amount of females in the industry, because game producers aim too much on the "average gamer," which is 18-34 year old males.
Examples of this include "boothe babes" at game shows, hard-core violence games etc. Apparently, these things don't appeal to females.
I was thinking, what could producers do to introduce females-by-the-millions into gaming? Well, females like chatting and fashion and clothes and stuff, right? So why not combine them.
What Microsoft could do is build like, a free service for the Xbox 360 Live service, a kind of free 3D interactible chat room, where everybody with a Live connection has access to. You start of just as a male/female and you can walk around this 3D city in 3rd or 1st person view, and there are other people, shops, appartments, parks etc, and you can chat to anybody using you're Live communicator, become friends with them, trade items etc.
To get money in this virtual world, you play Live compatible games, say, in Halo 3, you get a double-kill, or win a game of slayer, you earn a certain amount of virtual money.
With this money you can then buy clothes, pets, houses, items etc. which you can use and display in this virtual world, for others to see.
It'll be like a MMORPG which resembles life.
Also, another way to earn money is mini-multiplayer-games in this virtual world, where you play stuf like table tennis or billiards against others to win money.
Nintendo is doing an excellent job at introducing more people to the gaming community. Their Nintendo DS is very innovative, and strangely enough, I've only seen one DS advertisement (apart from at Gamespot) and that was in my sister's Dolly magazine, so Nintendo is also appealing to females. Nintendogs was a great idea at introducing less violent beings to our world.
Their new Revolution controller would also appeal to a larger variety of the community, if any of you have seen the video from the Tokyo Game Show, Nintendo is aiming it at all ages and sexes.
Feel free to add suggestions to my idea, or add your own ideas of what could introduce more females to the gaming world, because the last thing any of us want is for the gaming world to die out, just as it was flourishing.