Addiction
Man, I am so addicted to the Nintendo DS right now. I could play it all day and all night long. I need to be able to focus on school work, but how can I when I can make so much money from making fourheads have sex and then selling their babies in Viva Pinata?
I think Nintendo is totally brilliant–the Wii and DS are harangued by dudebros all the time for not being 360 and PS3 clones and having first person shooter games, but man, that’s just the thing–they are trying to appeal to everyone else. Every demographic outside of 13-27 year old males. My mother-in-law has a wii for cryin’ out loud. Everyone has one. Maybe it’s not for “serious gamers,” but why the fuck should Nintendo appeal to that demographic when it can put out like 100 games about horses and puppies and card games and language learning and get everyone else on the planet to buy? And a DS is only $130, I’m sure this christmas a lot of parents were like, “I want to get my kid a gift and he or she wants video games, but gee I just can’t afford any of those systems and their myriad accessories. Hey, look, the Nintendo DS is $130 and there are a ton of cheap games for it. Hmm.”
Not only that, I think these systems will break a lot of people into more hardcore games when they may otherwise not have been inclined to do so. For example, I have Super Princess Peach right now and it’s piss easy, but stuff like that and the hundred Barbie horse games might convince parents who might otherwise think “oh videogames aren’t for girls” to give a game system to their little girls and get them hooked for life.
It’s brilliant, I’m telling you.
I always wondered why more video game companies don’t try and appeal to a broader audience, and I think Nintendo has shown that doing so actually IS the smart thing to do.
As for the DS in particular, I don’t know why, but I love playing games with the stylus.
I think I’m going to start a little side blog to review the games I’m playing. I think I’ll try and update it weekly. I have to actually finish some of these games first though so I can review them! Since I’m playing like five at once it’ll be a little while!
