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Australia: Nintendo Is For Girls

SchwarzerWind — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:04:28 MDT

Pre-crack whore / alkie Lindsay Lohan?!

I'm totally there.

As for the actual content: Non-gaming women do love the DS and Wii; they even find it.. interesting. Not as interesting as a Nora Roberts book or Kathy Griffin, but interesting.

If Nintendo really wants to sell Wiis to them, all they need to do is make a Wii Remote powered version of Tetris for the Wii.

SchwarzerWind

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Ultrasinc — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:29:41 MDT

Nintendo is for girls?

So about that game... the one where you touch witches... Doki Doki (something) was it...

Motion sensing... touching... rumble... what has this world come to...

Ultrasinc

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Kazuomi-dono — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:44:44 MDT

Hmmm.. last time I was in Australia the girls were rather nice. Oz girls + Nintendo can only be a win/win for me.... hehe ;P

Kazuomi-dono

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alibi — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:15:35 MDT

'You can't sit with us!!!'

alibi

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Brinstar — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:58:29 MDT

Whoa, talk about misplaced entitlement!

Just because Nintendo doesn't ignore 50% of the population, they are accused of "taking away" from the boys?

Brinstar

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Hyrule Outlaw — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:19:49 MDT

I know alot of girls that have a DS and Wii. It should be no suprise by now that Nintendo just appeals to more guys and girls than the other consoles. Like this one for example,

@NotSoCool: Ha ha. Your funny. Now get a life.

Hyrule Outlaw

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NotSoCool — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:50:06 MDT

I already knew Nintendo was for girls. :P

NotSoCool

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Erzengel — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:58:49 MDT

Aspiring models and Nintendo?

Its finally happening!!! they said i was mad when i told them this day would come, and now here it is... GAMERS WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO TALK TO POPULAR GIRLS!!!

It may be too late for me now, but it doesnt matter, im glad to be alive to see it happen :D

Erzengel

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Toad — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:56:43 MDT

How is this a bad thing? I would gladly sell my PS3 or 360 (if I had bothered to buy either) to sneak my way into that crowd :D

Toad

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CrimemasterGogo — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:57:21 MDT

Austrailian girls must be beyond excitement.

CrimemasterGogo

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Altima NEO — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:29:42 MDT

Its all good. I can always invite some ladies to come play with my Wii

Altima NEO

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Moe Power — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:27:56 MDT

Ah...it's another marketing ploy which I'm sure will get some type of good response somewhere. I've also noticed a scary trend lately that most of the marketing-of-video-games-to-females revolves around the portable gaming device towards "image-obsessed, whiny, teenage girls"(I liked the way you put it). Perhaps that's just me, however.

Though, I wouldn't mind having a blinged out Pink DS for kicks. That would be, like, totally rad.

Mean Girls is a choice movie.

Moe Power

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Collapse The Control — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:27:22 MDT

Mean Girls = Hot
Nintendo = Cool
Text Messages = Gay (Males that do it a lot)

Collapse The Control

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Collins1990 — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:14:13 MDT

They can waggle my wiimote all they want...

Seriously... this is just a press release. It doesn't suggest that even 1 girl will play those demo units.

Collins1990

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amazinglarry — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:09:29 MDT

I got dibs on the 2 on the right side.

amazinglarry

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aelfin — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:38:00 MDT

It's from Mean Girls? Holy crap, and here I got it confused with a screencap from the Bratz movie. Time I studied up on those teen girl movies.

aelfin

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Essonse — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:20:09 MDT

@Rebochan:

Viscous? As in "omg where do u live omg a/s/l??"

I know a few girls who game myself, and they never worry about going online or talking about it (No one has to know you're a girl after all). But then again, they don't exactly fall into the Mean Girls category.

Essonse

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Redface — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:03:54 MDT

Where are all the misogynistic kotaku-ites?

I'm waiting for their most-assuredly hilarious comments.

Redface

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Sim_genius — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:54:11 MDT

ZOMG would it be weird if I say I loved Mean Girls -__-

Sim_genius

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Rebochan — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:44:15 MDT

Oh yea, and we can't have women playing video games, can we?

And guys wonder why girls don't like to play video games. Maybe if they weren't so hostile to the slightest feminine influence, they might have better luck. I know a lot of fellow gaming girls that don't even talk about their hobby online because the response is so vicious. This article isn't helping.

Rebochan

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Earthslide — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:16:15 MDT

I think dudes text messinging is more girly.

Earthslide

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ckranger11 — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:15:47 MDT

Yes (back then), yes, yes, yes

ckranger11

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Psybil — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:01:25 MDT

A girl liking a video game console system is more of a godsend, one would think, for the average, hormonal boy with a budget.

We don't want earrings anymore or fancy jewels. No! We want cheaper things than diamonds like the latest cute game or a fashionably colored portable console.

Revel in this. Instead of pillow talk she'd rather duel pokemons? Not too bad, eh....

Psybil

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commanderdeek — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:44:23 MDT

girls suck, they have cooties.

hahaha, omganimalcrossing!! funny stuff luke

commanderdeek

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khdownes — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:43:29 MDT

@KraazyCraig:

I lol'd extremely hard at that question.
This lack of SPM is making me delusional.

khdownes

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ビッグボス — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:42:01 MDT

Wow, that picture is hot. Especially with Lindsey Lohan back when she looked good...

I'd hit it like the fist of an angry god.

Wait... what?

Oh, we're talking about Nintendo, my mistake!

ビッグボス

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KraazyCraig — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:12:56 MDT

but yet where is Super Paper Mario....?

KraazyCraig

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platinum — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:09:23 MDT

beware, armageddon draws near!

platinum

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JimmyHACK — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:07:17 MDT

Mean Girls = AWESOME

JimmyHACK

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DynamoMatt — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:06:49 MDT

I feel kind of ashamed to own a DS Lite now. :P

DynamoMatt

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Black-Dog-Howls — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:05:39 MDT

Welp, Nintendo got the fan girls. Everyone else is t3h d00m3D!!

Black-Dog-Howls

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Candlejack — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:58:12 MDT

I think videogames need some positive responses and news from wherever, so this is not all that bad. But it still could render a ridiculous image of Nintendo to all the hardcore fans and gamers.

Oh, I like girls. Much. And videogames. This is sort of like when my girlfriend and me team up to play some 360. Not that it would be frequent or anything :/

Candlejack

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minister.of.rhetoric — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:57:28 MDT

Wait a minute. Aspiring models and Nintendo? I'm clearly in the wrong continent!

minister.of.rhetoric