Ubisoft, in an attempt to pacify the market of young girl gamers out there, have created a new line of games called Imagine to cater specifically to said girls. What type of games do young girls want? According to research, it seems they want to cook, go shopping, take care of animals, and raise babies. The demographic was 6-14, so if you want the frank truth, the baby raising game (titled Babyz, which is just wretched) makes me feel a little uncomfortable. Why does my eight year old need to practice baby raising?
These titles are probably a good way for young girls to have fun and experience gaming, but it makes the nine year old gamer in me cringe. I would never have played this tripe. I played Metroid and the Legend of Zelda, the way that gamers are supposed to be made! Why, in my day.....oh dear, I sound like my grandmother. At any rate, I feel giving your child these games means condemning them to casual gaming for life, not to mention stereotyping them as typical girls. Don't make more typical girls in the world, people!
[Via Multiplayer blog, Thanks Adam!]
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1:15 PM on 10.03.2007
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But yeahl the whole "let's add Z to the end of things!" movement can stop now.
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Yeah.
Unfortunately I don't have a business degree or work in advertising, so I'm stuck with ranting about this in blogs like this. Maybe someday someone will figure it out.
I think the reason why this game was probalby conceived was to tap into the next-gen of baby doll toys. Somebody figured that if little girls like playing with baby dolls, why wouldn't they want to play a video game about one? That is also a most insulting spelling of 'babies'. Babyz turn to Bratz. Gross.
What ? It should be advertised in Glamor and Cosmo?
Come on. When is this Girl Gamer Revolt going to end? We are gamers, gender does not count.
On topic, those Ubi games look horrible but it's the same thing as going down the lil girl aisles at Toys R Us.
Seriously, though, what's wrong with being typical? Whatever people decide to do in life, there has to be a plurality of it. And dolls and little siblings already provide practice for baby-raising, so the game isn't exactly breaking new ground.
Most importantly, can you name your baby a profanity and teach it to respond to your voice? Because that has been the chief shortcoming of the current baby-raising system.
On the other hand, this game could be fun, in a very sadistic way.
Sadly these games sell alright over in the UK from what I've seen at my store. Nintendogs does amazing and DOGZ, CATZ and HAMSTERZ also sells well.
Imagine Cooking didn't really go well even when it was forced into the chart as a new release. We have like 80 copies in the w/h just collecting dust.
You know, the reason guys like girls, usually, is because you know, they are girls.
We raising a new generation of bra-burning homosexual women?
Hmmmm....
I'm sorry, Colette, but the answer is simply clear:
So that your eight year old knows how to properly snap the infants' neck or smother it and dispose of it in a dumpster when she becomes pregnant at 13.
And for those that would become outraged at my above statements, a) sarcasm, b) it just really happened where I live, and c) what's the worst this game is going to do, teach them how to be good mothers?
It may not be for you, or your flavor of game-playing, but "'round these here parts" they could use a game like this. Cereal.
That is all.
The Sims was a perfect example of a game that didn't market to boy exclusively. It's the most successful PC game ever and 60% of its customers were female, so there are probably more girls playing that than any other game. It wasn't "The Olsen Twins And The Spice Girls Team Up To Ride Ponies And Buy Nail Polish LOLOLOLOL!!" but it was something with an appeal that was broad enough not to make females feel excluded, like most generic violent or sports games would.
I wonder if it would have wifi?
Lauren! Lets make sum babyz
I also think there is a difference between being a "bra burner" and being feminine without liking pink, makeup and "teh dollz" We don't need extremes.