@msvt i said USB, which have been the controller ports on the xbox, pc, ps3, ps4, xbone etc for over a decade. They're controller ports! That's what USB do!
@msvt Errr...you must be looking at a different Wii U than the rest of us. The wii u has 4 USB ports for controllers, the same as the Xbox 360, PS3, Xbone....
@amiiboacid Definitely 6-12 months, and 8 is far more likely. The Wii U dev kit came out 8 months before the first game hit the shelves. The wii dev kit came out 9 months before the games hit the shelves. The gamecube dev kit came out 8 months before the gamecube hit the shelves. The NX dev kit came out 2 months ago. Unless Nintendo is doing something completely different- and since this system is trying to compete with the Xbone and PS4 more so than the Wii and Wii U competed with anything- it seems to be on the same timeline as the last 15 years of Nintendo dev kits.
@sandman89 I've owned 900 games. I can't imagine filling 2 rooms of my house with games I haven't played in 20 years, and more than i can imagine keeping an old VHS player for a 30-year old copy of a movie! And for some games, like Earthbound, I sold a half-working copy for $60 (a fully working copy sells for $300) and picked it up later on Wii U for $5. The same thing with my copy of Jade Empire- sold it back when i could get $50 for it. Now, its free on PC, and runs much smoother. Why keep the old one lying around?
@MoonKnight7 the wii u I will probably go ahead with, although its really just a large scratch on the screen 2-3 inches across. If i can move my digital games to the NX, however, I'll be selling the wii u that day
GRRR i want better news on the NX. My 2DS is showing its age, and my Wii U needs a screen repair, although that only costs about $10. Still, I don't want to replace any part of either if the NX is coming out in 6 months and I can just sell both and transfer the games to my NX. Give me more information, Nintendo!
@readyletsgo The GBA micro was using 4 year old tech at the time, true, but it was still releasing new models when that processor was developed for the 360. The wii u uses a sliiiiightly faster version of it. My $40 phone uses more advanced tech. Move on, Nintendo!
@TTGlider that might have been true a year ago, but they released Lost Valley since then, a horrendous game by any measure, which is also the lowest rated harvest moon of all time. They learned nothing.
@readyletsgo really far behind the times*. I love my wii u, but the tablet is harder to use and 10x bulkier than my 4 year old ipad. The wii u itself looks kinda good! like an Xbox 360! You know, the Xbox 360, that system that came out the same month as the last GAMEBOY. The wii u is so far behind modern times, its using a processor and video card created when a brand new GAMEBOY was still on the way...
@akaDv8R hmm i worked for a partner of Criterion at that time and i thought it was 8 months. But, i swear the 90s were only a few years ago, so ah well. Still, that would put the NX right at a MARCH release, much less april or next holiday season. so, july-christmas seems perfectly valid
June works, but Christmas makes more sense. The Wii U and Wii dev kits were each shipped out 8 months to about a year before each system hit store shelves. The dev kits came out about 2 months ago, so June would more than 8 months after that...
@Moon I mean a crappy mcdonalds burger that tastes like garbage is $2-4, but a delicious 5 guys burger is $5, and a foot long fully loaded cheesesteak is $9.80. With eShop card discount, Pokemon Yellow is costing me $4. That's the cost of a disgusting piece of fast food cardboard
You can get eShop and Amazon $10 codes for $5-8 pretty much every month. I've already purchased enough since it was announced to make each game about $4-5. I'm picking up 4-5 of them for friends and family.
@Moon if people want free and $1 smartphone games, they are more than welcome to buy flappy bird or whappy penguin. If they want a 30 hour RPG with hundreds of characters, that they STILL enjoy 20 years later, they might want to put down...the cost of a cheesesteak sub.
@Haiassai i bought things Blockbuster had on sale a few times, (only when they were going under) but i always remember a friend notoriously bad with money always proudly saying "i rented this for $15!!" me: its $5 on steam her: but i dont wanna own it me: who cares? youi just bought the game 3 times over, the only difference is now you only have it for a week...
@rjejr it hit me harder than grave of the fireflies, honestly. its a lot like secret world mixed with ponyo. but 95% of the game is just like fantasy life, and has me choking with laughter and light hearted fun.
@rjejr it hit me harder than grave of the fireflies, honestly. its a lot like secret world mixed with ponyo. but 95% of the game is just like fantasy life, and has me choking with laughter and light hearted fun.
@mookysam i hope its cheap one day. Fantasy Life is the same price it was over a year ago, and little battleres hasnt budged. The eShop Layton games (all by the same team) never go on sale, ever. Only the like 8-10 year old Level5 games really go down in price, and thats because theyre used.
But here's hoping! it wouldnt be so bad if they hadnt JUST released LBX
@Haiassai ewww. Blockbuster went under for a reason. $16 to rent a DS game for 5 days, when it was a $5 title in any clearance bin? $20 to rent an Xbox game for a week, when gamestop lets you return a game within a week, for FULL REFUND, if you didnt enjoy it? And its a $10 budget title anyway? Oh balls no. Let Blockbuster sink into the distant sands it died off in, long ago
@rjejr I can honestly say Ni No Kuni is one of the 11 greatest games I've ever played, out of hundreds of titles. Its basically playing a 100 hour long Miyazaki film. no spoilers, but it does get darker than you'd assume from the cheery opening. Absolutely gaming at its best
@ShikabaneHime13 I went to the NY store 5 years ago, then twice this summer. I kinda wanna go back.... whats a 6 hour round trip bus ride, but a chance to beat LBX?!
@Windy search "animal crossing new leaf" on facebook. There are a dozen similar groups, (which doesnt matter if you dont like new leaf!) but 99% of the members are women, overwhelmingly in their 20s-40s. One day it was kinda cute- a 45 year old woman asked if she's the only old fart- and within mintues dozens of users were commenting "75, female" "62, female, i play with my grandkids" "52 here, my husband and i play together". The first user was overjoyed that they werent the only older-than-20 year old woman gaming all day
@faint i know one of the "ha i bet its only farmville on their phones" posters on another site, and i know for a fact that his wife is a pretty hardcore gamer. Not sure if he was trolling, or after many years of being single and not having enough gamer girl friends, he just forgot about his own wife and daughter...
@hYdeks my thoughts exactly. Everyone games, but its def a higher percentage of men who build their own gaming PCs. I'm a member of an animal crossing group online, and out of 3,000 members, 2,900 or so are women. Every single one owns and plays the game on 3DS, wii, or gamecube. So if we randomly surveyed that group, 100% of women own game console owners, and yet only 3% of all gamers are men. But, on my Destiny and Doom group, its about 100 women to every 1,000 men, and almost all of the men are on PC. So, it all kinda evens out.
@World HA. i deleted them for rambling too long and being too rude to someone on here, but ughh i have so many of those stories. Several female friends are programmers and developers of games, so at trade shows and conventions, or even the grocery store they might wear a Fallout shirt, and some guy will say "oh, you like fallout? I BET YOU ONLY LIKE THE DOG ON THE SHIRT, EXPLAIN TO ME THE PLOT OF VAN BUREN AND FALLOUT NEW VEGAS". "Umm....i'm the lead designer of Fallout 4, and i wrote half of van buren," "OMG WANNA HOOK UP, YOU PASSED THE TEST". Yes, random 400 pound dude. The 130 pound married mother of 3 is just jumping for joy that you passed her test, as you sit there holding her arm in the EMPTY parking lot at 1130 at night....
@Yorumi @ultraraichu that's what i was saying before. Its often better for women to hide their gaming natures. A man MIGHT get made fun of for gaming, a few times, but that mostly happened 20, 30 years ago. now, everyone plays games. A big part of it is the nature of a threat- when a 100 pound, 55 year old woman at a Target or BestBuy makes fun of me for buying Pokemon, (and not buying a sports game or call of duty or some such crap) i can be nice and say that we live in a violent and disgusting world, and it relaxes me with its cuteness Or, if she's being really rude, i can laugh and ask why she's almost 60 and working a crap job that pays 1/4th as much as my 17 year old intern makes. I can turn around, and walk away, amused. I don't need to pretend that i bought it for a niece, or a nephew. What's she going to do, ball up my receipt and throw it at me? Slap me? I could throw her 50 feet through the air. So, I don't care, and that's why its not an issue. But a female gamer gets creepy messages...on her real facebook identity, which shows her hometown. Only two people in that town have her last name, and both are in the phone book. Now, she's scared- better to have not posted on that board at all. Earlier, i told the story of the female gamer in a bar (which wasnt in NYC, tho i was there recently at a gaming event and saw similar stories happening...) wearing a nerdy shirt- the two men that stopped her and demanded to know if she was a REAL gamer were easily twice her size. She was just about to head out to her car, alone. If she angered them, or pissed them off, or did anything besides be super polite, it could have ended really, really poorly for her. She wore the shirt two more times- and again, terrible, awkward, creepy, and potentially, physically violent things almost happened, or did start to happen. "Hey girl, i like that game too! what you dont wanna talk to me? YOU TOO GOOD FOR ME, YEAH YOU BETTER KEEP WALKING" etc. Better just wear a plain black tshirt now. Yeah, it sucks if someone teases you for being a gamer and you're a guy, and Yes Yorumi, people have teased you and i for being male gamers, or adult gamers, or gamers in the 80s, but its still a MASSIVE world of difference between the woman occasionally making fun of the nerdy male outcast, and the actual, physical, terrifying reality of being a woman in today's world. There's a reason some people are hiding from the "hardcore mature" gamers. Sometimes, its better for the women just to hide, or not play in public, or do literally anything ever that calls attention to themself.And that's why everyone can say "i dunno man, i only know two girls that talk about owning their own console, and no one in my guild is a girl..." in reality, half of them are girls, they just don't talk about it,.
@bloodycelt ooo you need to change offices! Around here you're more likely to get teased for liking Sportsball, while the 30-35 year old managers and lead programmers are off buying games on their lunch breaks.
ooo i just read the sailor moon comment. I could buy a sailor moon manga just fine, but then again i don't give two ****s. A female friend did go to a store once, to buya my little pony thing. She was 22. The female cashier went on and on about bronies (i often can't stand bronies, but thats for different reasons...) and how gross it was that man, or adults really, were buying these toys. What stupid, ugly, failure of an adult, male or female, wants to buy my little pony!?!? the cashier demanded. My friend got so upset she just turned around and left.
THE FRIEND WAS ME.
@Yorumi no, i told 3-4 real-life stories of why women are less likely to be vocal on forums, groups, etc, because such things do happen. They were specific instances, of real world people. Yes, the most obnoxious men, they're a small percentage, likely under 10%, but they're a screaming, hate-filled segment, that MUST be dealt with, or sent to their rooms without dessert. ISIS isn't all muslims, but they must still be dealt with. Corrupt, brutal cops aren't all cops, but they must still be dealt with. You chose to get offended, indignant, annoyed, whatever that not all men do that. I'm insulting the rage-filled, sexist neckbeard who refuses to admit that women are gamers. If that offends you and you feel insulted, then congrats! I apparently struck a nerve. Guilty consciences are the worst
I'll leave you with my favorite comment about the #NotallMen nonsense
You have a bag of skittles. 90% of them are fantastic, tasty candy. 10% are poison. Eat it, and you will die in horrible screaming butt pain. You have a bag of 200 skittles in your hand. It's a tiny, tiny fraction- 10%! That's just 20 skittles in the bag. Why bring it up? Why complain about it, or call it out? Just because one is enough to kill you, and you're facing 20? But who cares! That's a small percentage, so #NotAllSkittles
@Yorumi I have a wife, a daughter, a sister, and 2 female best friends. the amount of BS i've had to save them all from is staggering. Just scroll through this article: how many people are just replying "LOL DONT BELIEVE IT GIRLS ONLY PLAY CANDY CRUSH LOLZ". And that's the kind ones...
@Obito_Sigma i think out of 30 male gamer friends, only 2-3 guys own a wii u, and out of 45 female gamer friends, 2 own a wii u. Honestly , no one really owns a wii u
@Ryu_Niiyama Agreed 5000%. Every girl and guy i know is a gamer, but the women stay off the forums/online chat/etc for a definite reason. WoW and Destiny raids can be 10 women and 2 guys, but the second one of the women speaks up or mentions being a woman OMG CAN I HAVE A PIC WHERE YOU FROM? ?
BestBuy sent out their free $5 giftcards yesterday to certain members, so i picked up an eShop card with it. i'll be able to pick this up for $2. $2 is worth riding along as Ninja...
@smashbrolink i would barely play a mario cellphone game, but if Nintendo made one that took them 3 months to make and brought in crazy flappy bird money, well, that's more money to go towards developing fire emblem and pokemon real time games..
@Morph Pffft its the nature of shareholders to be silly. There are charts you can watch where everytime Steve Jobs sneezed, the stock dropped 3% within seconds.
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Re: Feature: The Full Story Behind Star Fox 2, Nintendo's Most Famous Cancellation
@C-Olimar I guess cutting the edge off a 5 year old Pc processor?
Re: Feature: A Celebration of HAL Laboratory - Forever Focused on Fun
@DarthNocturnal What about Return to Dreamland in NA? Its been here on both disk and eShop forever. Or did i just misread what you wrote?
Re: A Version of the Pokkén Tournament Arcade Controller Will Be Made for the Wii U in Japan
@msvt i said USB, which have been the controller ports on the xbox, pc, ps3, ps4, xbone etc for over a decade. They're controller ports! That's what USB do!
Re: A Version of the Pokkén Tournament Arcade Controller Will Be Made for the Wii U in Japan
@msvt Errr...you must be looking at a different Wii U than the rest of us. The wii u has 4 USB ports for controllers, the same as the Xbox 360, PS3, Xbone....
Re: Nintendo Remains Bullish Around the 3DS and Its Future Prospects
@Rez what?
Re: Nintendo Remains Bullish Around the 3DS and Its Future Prospects
@amiiboacid Definitely 6-12 months, and 8 is far more likely. The Wii U dev kit came out 8 months before the first game hit the shelves. The wii dev kit came out 9 months before the games hit the shelves. The gamecube dev kit came out 8 months before the gamecube hit the shelves.
The NX dev kit came out 2 months ago. Unless Nintendo is doing something completely different- and since this system is trying to compete with the Xbone and PS4 more so than the Wii and Wii U competed with anything- it seems to be on the same timeline as the last 15 years of Nintendo dev kits.
Re: Nintendo Remains Bullish Around the 3DS and Its Future Prospects
@sandman89 I've owned 900 games. I can't imagine filling 2 rooms of my house with games I haven't played in 20 years, and more than i can imagine keeping an old VHS player for a 30-year old copy of a movie! And for some games, like Earthbound, I sold a half-working copy for $60 (a fully working copy sells for $300) and picked it up later on Wii U for $5. The same thing with my copy of Jade Empire- sold it back when i could get $50 for it. Now, its free on PC, and runs much smoother. Why keep the old one lying around?
Re: Nintendo Remains Bullish Around the 3DS and Its Future Prospects
@MoonKnight7 the wii u I will probably go ahead with, although its really just a large scratch on the screen 2-3 inches across. If i can move my digital games to the NX, however, I'll be selling the wii u that day
Re: Nintendo Remains Bullish Around the 3DS and Its Future Prospects
@Octane So by "neither system" you mean "the 3DS".
Re: Nintendo Remains Bullish Around the 3DS and Its Future Prospects
GRRR i want better news on the NX. My 2DS is showing its age, and my Wii U needs a screen repair, although that only costs about $10. Still, I don't want to replace any part of either if the NX is coming out in 6 months and I can just sell both and transfer the games to my NX. Give me more information, Nintendo!
Re: Nintendo Download: 10th December (North America)
I'll finally pick up Adventure Bar Story!
Re: Linkle to be Considered for Future Legend of Zelda Titles
@Kriedler The name is Japanese for "Girl link".
Re: Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories Releases for Wii U in 2016
@readyletsgo The GBA micro was using 4 year old tech at the time, true, but it was still releasing new models when that processor was developed for the 360. The wii u uses a sliiiiightly faster version of it. My $40 phone uses more advanced tech. Move on, Nintendo!
Re: Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories Releases for Wii U in 2016
@TTGlider that might have been true a year ago, but they released Lost Valley since then, a horrendous game by any measure, which is also the lowest rated harvest moon of all time. They learned nothing.
Re: Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories Releases for Wii U in 2016
@readyletsgo really far behind the times*. I love my wii u, but the tablet is harder to use and 10x bulkier than my 4 year old ipad.
The wii u itself looks kinda good! like an Xbox 360! You know, the Xbox 360, that system that came out the same month as the last GAMEBOY. The wii u is so far behind modern times, its using a processor and video card created when a brand new GAMEBOY was still on the way...
Re: Rumour: NX Set for 2016 Release With Nintendo Targeting 20 Million Shipped Units
@akaDv8R hmm i worked for a partner of Criterion at that time and i thought it was 8 months. But, i swear the 90s were only a few years ago, so ah well.
Still, that would put the NX right at a MARCH release, much less april or next holiday season. so, july-christmas seems perfectly valid
Re: Rumour: NX Set for 2016 Release With Nintendo Targeting 20 Million Shipped Units
June works, but Christmas makes more sense. The Wii U and Wii dev kits were each shipped out 8 months to about a year before each system hit store shelves. The dev kits came out about 2 months ago, so June would more than 8 months after that...
Re: Review: Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Bros. (3DS)
@Not_Soos yeayh, but its about 10x the score of paper mario sticker star...
Re: Nintendo Download: 19th November (North America)
@BaffleBlend its all i logged online today to look for
Re: Amazon Lists Pokémon Red, Yellow And Blue At 10 Bucks A Pop
@ekreig Since they're too poor to afford a $5-10 30-100 hour RPG, i kinda think life is already laughing at them enough...
Re: Amazon Lists Pokémon Red, Yellow And Blue At 10 Bucks A Pop
@Moon I mean a crappy mcdonalds burger that tastes like garbage is $2-4, but a delicious 5 guys burger is $5, and a foot long fully loaded cheesesteak is $9.80. With eShop card discount, Pokemon Yellow is costing me $4. That's the cost of a disgusting piece of fast food cardboard
Re: Amazon Lists Pokémon Red, Yellow And Blue At 10 Bucks A Pop
You can get eShop and Amazon $10 codes for $5-8 pretty much every month. I've already purchased enough since it was announced to make each game about $4-5. I'm picking up 4-5 of them for friends and family.
Re: Amazon Lists Pokémon Red, Yellow And Blue At 10 Bucks A Pop
@Moon if people want free and $1 smartphone games, they are more than welcome to buy flappy bird or whappy penguin. If they want a 30 hour RPG with hundreds of characters, that they STILL enjoy 20 years later, they might want to put down...the cost of a cheesesteak sub.
Re: Akihiro Hino Explains Why Yo-Kai Watch Has Been So Successful and What Sets It Apart
@Haiassai i think blockbuster fully died 2 years after college? 3 ? for me.
gamefly was pretty terrible too for awhile.
Re: Akihiro Hino Explains Why Yo-Kai Watch Has Been So Successful and What Sets It Apart
@TinaA82 Yokai is till $40, ive seen Ni No for $7 and $10 several times this year!
Re: Akihiro Hino Explains Why Yo-Kai Watch Has Been So Successful and What Sets It Apart
@Haiassai i bought things Blockbuster had on sale a few times, (only when they were going under) but i always remember a friend notoriously bad with money always proudly saying "i rented this for $15!!" me: its $5 on steam
her: but i dont wanna own it me: who cares? youi just bought the game 3 times over, the only difference is now you only have it for a week...
Re: Akihiro Hino Explains Why Yo-Kai Watch Has Been So Successful and What Sets It Apart
@rjejr it hit me harder than grave of the fireflies, honestly. its a lot like secret world mixed with ponyo. but 95% of the game is just like fantasy life, and has me choking with laughter and light hearted fun.
Re: Akihiro Hino Explains Why Yo-Kai Watch Has Been So Successful and What Sets It Apart
@rjejr it hit me harder than grave of the fireflies, honestly. its a lot like secret world mixed with ponyo. but 95% of the game is just like fantasy life, and has me choking with laughter and light hearted fun.
Re: Akihiro Hino Explains Why Yo-Kai Watch Has Been So Successful and What Sets It Apart
@mookysam i hope its cheap one day. Fantasy Life is the same price it was over a year ago, and little battleres hasnt budged. The eShop Layton games (all by the same team) never go on sale, ever. Only the like 8-10 year old Level5 games really go down in price, and thats because theyre used.
But here's hoping! it wouldnt be so bad if they hadnt JUST released LBX
Re: Akihiro Hino Explains Why Yo-Kai Watch Has Been So Successful and What Sets It Apart
@Haiassai ewww. Blockbuster went under for a reason. $16 to rent a DS game for 5 days, when it was a $5 title in any clearance bin? $20 to rent an Xbox game for a week, when gamestop lets you return a game within a week, for FULL REFUND, if you didnt enjoy it? And its a $10 budget title anyway? Oh balls no. Let Blockbuster sink into the distant sands it died off in, long ago
Re: Akihiro Hino Explains Why Yo-Kai Watch Has Been So Successful and What Sets It Apart
@rjejr I can honestly say Ni No Kuni is one of the 11 greatest games I've ever played, out of hundreds of titles. Its basically playing a 100 hour long Miyazaki film. no spoilers, but it does get darker than you'd assume from the cheery opening. Absolutely gaming at its best
Re: Akihiro Hino Explains Why Yo-Kai Watch Has Been So Successful and What Sets It Apart
@ShikabaneHime13 I went to the NY store 5 years ago, then twice this summer. I kinda wanna go back.... whats a 6 hour round trip bus ride, but a chance to beat LBX?!
Re: More North American Women Own A Games Console Than Men
@Dankykong i honestly think every woman i know owns a PS4, and none of them have kids...
Re: More North American Women Own A Games Console Than Men
@Windy search "animal crossing new leaf" on facebook. There are a dozen similar groups, (which doesnt matter if you dont like new leaf!) but 99% of the members are women, overwhelmingly in their 20s-40s. One day it was kinda cute- a 45 year old woman asked if she's the only old fart- and within mintues dozens of users were commenting "75, female" "62, female, i play with my grandkids" "52 here, my husband and i play together".
The first user was overjoyed that they werent the only older-than-20 year old woman gaming all day
Re: More North American Women Own A Games Console Than Men
@faint i know one of the "ha i bet its only farmville on their phones" posters on another site, and i know for a fact that his wife is a pretty hardcore gamer. Not sure if he was trolling, or after many years of being single and not having enough gamer girl friends, he just forgot about his own wife and daughter...
Re: More North American Women Own A Games Console Than Men
@hYdeks my thoughts exactly. Everyone games, but its def a higher percentage of men who build their own gaming PCs. I'm a member of an animal crossing group online, and out of 3,000 members, 2,900 or so are women. Every single one owns and plays the game on 3DS, wii, or gamecube. So if we randomly surveyed that group, 100% of women own game console owners, and yet only 3% of all gamers are men.
But, on my Destiny and Doom group, its about 100 women to every 1,000 men, and almost all of the men are on PC. So, it all kinda evens out.
Re: More North American Women Own A Games Console Than Men
@World HA. i deleted them for rambling too long and being too rude to someone on here, but ughh i have so many of those stories. Several female friends are programmers and developers of games, so at trade shows and conventions, or even the grocery store they might wear a Fallout shirt, and some guy will say "oh, you like fallout? I BET YOU ONLY LIKE THE DOG ON THE SHIRT, EXPLAIN TO ME THE PLOT OF VAN BUREN AND FALLOUT NEW VEGAS". "Umm....i'm the lead designer of Fallout 4, and i wrote half of van buren," "OMG WANNA HOOK UP, YOU PASSED THE TEST". Yes, random 400 pound dude. The 130 pound married mother of 3 is just jumping for joy that you passed her test, as you sit there holding her arm in the EMPTY parking lot at 1130 at night....
Re: More North American Women Own A Games Console Than Men
@Yorumi @ultraraichu that's what i was saying before. Its often better for women to hide their gaming natures. A man MIGHT get made fun of for gaming, a few times, but that mostly happened 20, 30 years ago. now, everyone plays games. A big part of it is the nature of a threat- when a 100 pound, 55 year old woman at a Target or BestBuy makes fun of me for buying Pokemon, (and not buying a sports game or call of duty or some such crap) i can be nice and say that we live in a violent and disgusting world, and it relaxes me with its cuteness Or, if she's being really rude, i can laugh and ask why she's almost 60 and working a crap job that pays 1/4th as much as my 17 year old intern makes. I can turn around, and walk away, amused. I don't need to pretend that i bought it for a niece, or a nephew. What's she going to do, ball up my receipt and throw it at me? Slap me? I could throw her 50 feet through the air. So, I don't care, and that's why its not an issue. But a female gamer gets creepy messages...on her real facebook identity, which shows her hometown. Only two people in that town have her last name, and both are in the phone book. Now, she's scared- better to have not posted on that board at all. Earlier, i told the story of the female gamer in a bar (which wasnt in NYC, tho i was there recently at a gaming event and saw similar stories happening...) wearing a nerdy shirt- the two men that stopped her and demanded to know if she was a REAL gamer were easily twice her size. She was just about to head out to her car, alone. If she angered them, or pissed them off, or did anything besides be super polite, it could have ended really, really poorly for her. She wore the shirt two more times- and again, terrible, awkward, creepy, and potentially, physically violent things almost happened, or did start to happen. "Hey girl, i like that game too! what you dont wanna talk to me? YOU TOO GOOD FOR ME, YEAH YOU BETTER KEEP WALKING" etc. Better just wear a plain black tshirt now. Yeah, it sucks if someone teases you for being a gamer and you're a guy, and Yes Yorumi, people have teased you and i for being male gamers, or adult gamers, or gamers in the 80s, but its still a MASSIVE world of difference between the woman occasionally making fun of the nerdy male outcast, and the actual, physical, terrifying reality of being a woman in today's world. There's a reason some people are hiding from the "hardcore mature" gamers. Sometimes, its better for the women just to hide, or not play in public, or do literally anything ever that calls attention to themself.And that's why everyone can say "i dunno man, i only know two girls that talk about owning their own console, and no one in my guild is a girl..." in reality, half of them are girls, they just don't talk about it,.
Re: More North American Women Own A Games Console Than Men
@bloodycelt ooo you need to change offices! Around here you're more likely to get teased for liking Sportsball, while the 30-35 year old managers and lead programmers are off buying games on their lunch breaks.
ooo i just read the sailor moon comment. I could buy a sailor moon manga just fine, but then again i don't give two ****s. A female friend did go to a store once, to buya my little pony thing. She was 22. The female cashier went on and on about bronies (i often can't stand bronies, but thats for different reasons...) and how gross it was that man, or adults really, were buying these toys. What stupid, ugly, failure of an adult, male or female, wants to buy my little pony!?!? the cashier demanded. My friend got so upset she just turned around and left.
THE FRIEND WAS ME.
well, it wasnt, i just wanted to say that...
Re: More North American Women Own A Games Console Than Men
@Yorumi no, i told 3-4 real-life stories of why women are less likely to be vocal on forums, groups, etc, because such things do happen. They were specific instances, of real world people. Yes, the most obnoxious men, they're a small percentage, likely under 10%, but they're a screaming, hate-filled segment, that MUST be dealt with, or sent to their rooms without dessert. ISIS isn't all muslims, but they must still be dealt with. Corrupt, brutal cops aren't all cops, but they must still be dealt with. You chose to get offended, indignant, annoyed, whatever that not all men do that. I'm insulting the rage-filled, sexist neckbeard who refuses to admit that women are gamers. If that offends you and you feel insulted, then congrats! I apparently struck a nerve. Guilty consciences are the worst
I'll leave you with my favorite comment about the #NotallMen nonsense
You have a bag of skittles. 90% of them are fantastic, tasty candy. 10% are poison. Eat it, and you will die in horrible screaming butt pain. You have a bag of 200 skittles in your hand. It's a tiny, tiny fraction- 10%! That's just 20 skittles in the bag. Why bring it up? Why complain about it, or call it out? Just because one is enough to kill you, and you're facing 20? But who cares! That's a small percentage, so #NotAllSkittles
Re: More North American Women Own A Games Console Than Men
@Yorumi I have a wife, a daughter, a sister, and 2 female best friends. the amount of BS i've had to save them all from is staggering. Just scroll through this article: how many people are just replying "LOL DONT BELIEVE IT GIRLS ONLY PLAY CANDY CRUSH LOLZ".
And that's the kind ones...
Re: More North American Women Own A Games Console Than Men
@Obito_Sigma i think out of 30 male gamer friends, only 2-3 guys own a wii u, and out of 45 female gamer friends, 2 own a wii u. Honestly , no one really owns a wii u
Re: More North American Women Own A Games Console Than Men
@Ryu_Niiyama Agreed 5000%. Every girl and guy i know is a gamer, but the women stay off the forums/online chat/etc for a definite reason. WoW and Destiny raids can be 10 women and 2 guys, but the second one of the women speaks up or mentions being a woman OMG CAN I HAVE A PIC WHERE YOU FROM? ?
Re: Nintendo Download: 5th November (North America)
I wanted Konami Krazy Racers grrrrrr
Re: Video: New Hyrule Warriors Legends Video Shows More Footage of Tetra in Action
In the entire video we don't see any enemies actually attack, since BALLLLLLLS these games are too easy.
Re: Those Who Buy Stella Glow Digitally Will Receive an Exclusive 3DS Theme
Its an Atlus game. Itll be 50% off within a month, digitally.
Re: Review: Konami Krazy Racers (Wii U eShop / GBA)
BestBuy sent out their free $5 giftcards yesterday to certain members, so i picked up an eShop card with it. i'll be able to pick this up for $2. $2 is worth riding along as Ninja...
Re: Nintendo Shares Level Out After $4 Billion Drop in Company Value
@TsukiDeity www.sharebuilder.com, type in nintendo, and that's all there is to it. You can buy a single share, with fees, for about $25.
Re: Nintendo Shares Level Out After $4 Billion Drop in Company Value
@smashbrolink i would barely play a mario cellphone game, but if Nintendo made one that took them 3 months to make and brought in crazy flappy bird money, well, that's more money to go towards developing fire emblem and pokemon real time games..
Re: Nintendo Shares Level Out After $4 Billion Drop in Company Value
@Morph Pffft its the nature of shareholders to be silly. There are charts you can watch where everytime Steve Jobs sneezed, the stock dropped 3% within seconds.