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11/04/09
:P
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Week one: prominently featured in the new release section.
Week two:sent to the dark corner of the sports game section....where it goes to die along with Madden, NBA Live, and Tiger Woods.
While Madden, NBA Live, and Tiger Woods are the only games available over here for football/basketball/golf...FIFA is not as lucky in that they have a domestically developed title to content with...Winning Eleven (I think its called Pro Evo in the west)...or "Wi-re" as its known over here.
In my over five years in Japan....I have seen people skip out on work/school/social obligations in order to pick up and indulge in the latest Winning Eleven title. Its basically the Japanese equivalent of a Madden release. And yet I am yet to hear of anyone knowing/caring about FIFA.
And putting Japanese players on the box makes absolutely no difference. The Japanese version of MVP Baseball 2005 had Ichiro, Hideki Matsui, Hideo Nomo, AND Kazuo Matsui on the box....NBA Live 06 had Tabuse on the box....and both of those titles still sold abysmally.
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Also pass the memo to japanese players that Fifa is far better than PES is this year #japan
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There's plenty of Japanese people who love MLB or COD, but as Moore unintentionally admits, publishers don't even make the slightest effort in a genre where it's mind-numbingly simple to appeal to people. #japan
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You could replace "dating sim" if you wish with any of the following:
-anime girls
-bikini volleyball
-sixaxis jiggle
-japanese pop icons
-chibi animals #japan
11/04/09
"Sasuke Watanabe's Panty Raiding 2011". #japan
10/19/09
I think the best thing EA could possibly do is ask. I don't see sports having wide appeal because men like to geek out not just over players, but their stats.
If you look at football lovers overall, there are the rivalries, but also droves a devoted stat geeks and the next obvious jump is to Fantasy Football and Madden for them.
The way football is marketed also focuses predominantly on males retreating to their mancaves and brohomes, sheltered from the henpecking wife or barely-tolerant girlfriend figure. Cue the beer ad with cheerleaders, relationship sight-gags, et al.
The fact is, girls play many games that guys do and it seems to me that they may play the ones with marketing that don't overly sexualize them.
Run some surveys, take some actual feedback instead of relying on said surveys and, for God's sake, listen. Then, EA, you can realize that you're no longer in high school and that it's O.K. to talk to women without stratifying or lifting them up on a pedestal. #easports
10/19/09
In Ea sports Active, have a male only mode, with nude models doing aerobics...
50-50 guaranteed!
*cough* #easports
10/19/09
Well, I just look at them and call them mad and envision myself in an 1800's academic auditorium wearing a black bowler hat and sporting a waxed moustache puffing on a meerschaum pipe and joining in with the chorus of bemused laughter filling the hall coming from my colleagues and peers.
We watch with bewilderment the young man at the dias we've come to see, sides aching from the guffaws and belly laughs, wiping away the tears from our eyes with monogrammed handkerchiefs drawn from our breast coast pocket.
The object of our jeers is standing at the podium, adjusting his spectacles and shuffling nervously, red faced, through his papers as he mumbles something under his breath.
"I knew they wouldn't understand, but I'll show them, I'll show them in the end and we will see who gets the last laugh!" He stammers before he is laughed right out of the pulpit.
"Women interested in Sport's Games indeed! Pshaw. What manner of folly will they want us to believe next, that men can fly with metal wings! Or that we can travel to the moon to sample the green cheese with our afternoon tea! Indeed!" we chortle as we file out into the foggy Victorian streets on our way to the pub to drink brandy and play at Billiard Balls and Bagatelle.
Poppycock! Balderdash! #easports
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And as far as Microsoft making the first move to all digital (or whatever his theories are on the next method of game sales) I don't see why. Sony made the first jump to discs, Nintendo made the first to motion control (not counting EyeToy). I don't see why Xbox would be first to go all digital.
Then again, I may have missed a speech saying it was their plan or something, so if I'm wrong, please inform me. #easports
10/19/09
If there's anything I've learned from video games, its that girls like three things: horses, being a princess, and jewels of some sort. So the answer is obviously a horse-riding mini-game where the prize is a diamond-studded tiara and a date with their NFL player of choice.*
*Sorry lesbians, but the ability to date the cheerleaders is DLC only. #easports
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...man i suck at this game.
09/15/09
@kainzero: like that?
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Then again, when you consider that they charge $100 for a wireless adapter...
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Sony's will release before Natal, Natal will be cheaper.
Both have me hyped up.
My question is, will we need a new dev kit for Natal or will it work with the equipment and xna?
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I only kid, couldn't resist. 10,500 fine? She keeps that much in her little piggy bank.
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If Serena wasn't a money maker for Tennis and women tennis in general she would have been suspended without blinking.
09/15/09
Its laughable to criticize someone when you're enabling them to be paid millions of dollars for hitting a ball back and forth.
09/15/09
1) Fight Night: Full Motion (killer app for Natal)
2) Fencing - great for the controller
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More importantly, why haven't they jumped on the TNA license for normal pads?
09/15/09
I'm a fencer, and I would love that.
EPEE IS THE ONLY TRUE WEAPON!