Sony Aiming For ‘More Accessible Experience’ With PS4?
And more games for girls.
Published: 10:00, 21/06/2011 by Staff.
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It’s all been translated via Google, so it’s a little tricky to pull out accurate soundbites, but it does seem like Sony is planning on something a little less hardcore for the next console.
“How do you imagine the next generation of consoles? Is it better graphics, new control interfaces, or both at once?” asks the site. “It’s hard to say right now,” says Armstrong in reply. “I do not think we’ll have a console with much better graphics than the PS3 currently offers. I believe the future will be to provide consumers with better experiences and [be] more accessible.”
“The aim will be to make more people enter the world of video games and try to design titles for women.”
Armstrong says that market research shows that it’s mostly boys that enjoy PlayStation – there are no games for girls.
“We [will] try to snag the games,” he says. “If we are an industry that has a product primarily intended for men, we are actually selling for 50% of what we could sell. So if we can make games for women would have a larger business and interesting. I think it’s important.”
We’d love to see a proper translation of this if any of our readers are Spanish.
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21/06/2011 at 10:05
Member since: Apr 2010
Might finally be able to hook my girlfriend on gaming! Just like a pimp, I can then sell her on the street for “one last fix”. Happy days.
21/06/2011 at 10:13
Member since: Feb 2011
Lol!
I’m pretty lucky, my wife actually loves Nazi Zombies and feels included with my mates when she plays. That reminds me, need to buy her a pink DualShock3 for her birthday….I’ll do everything in my power to get her involved – so it’ll mean more game-time for me!
She likes watching LA Noire, and has Katamari, Mini Ninjas and a few Disney games of her own! :)
21/06/2011 at 10:12
Member since: Forever
I dunno, our lass likes gaming, in fact she has three platinums…
21/06/2011 at 10:14
Member since: Feb 2011
That’s impressive, what games are they?
21/06/2011 at 10:35
Member since: Jun 2009
That’s 3 more than me!
21/06/2011 at 21:28
Member since: Dec 2009
Exactly. I hate this crap. ‘Games for girls’?? That just means they’re gonna start making ‘cooking momma’ and other shit for the PS4. Oh great, that’s hundreds of games that are just going to be ignored by the majority of gamers.
21/06/2011 at 10:12
Member since: Jun 2010
Pffft. I don’t like the sound of this. Hasn’t the Wii tapped enough into “girl gaming”?
21/06/2011 at 10:15
Member since: Feb 2011
Alternatively girls could like boy stuff? I got a friend-whos-a-girl and she loves PS3
21/06/2011 at 13:35
Member since: Aug 2009
good call.
21/06/2011 at 14:10
Member since: Jul 2009
Yeah, gender-orientated games are awful. The whole “boys are blue, girls are pink”-concept should have been binned in the fifties. Make everything okay for anyone to use and enjoy.
21/06/2011 at 10:17
Member since: Feb 2009
I’ve struck gold my GF of last 3 months loves my ps3 and even asks me to bring it over to her place . Her favourites are Wipeout Hd , LA Noire , RdR . She bought her first game at the weekend Fallout New Vegas, no zumba , pink fluffy Crap etc in sight . I reckon shed find it patronizing to hear that they want to make more women orientated games.
21/06/2011 at 10:27
Member since: Oct 2009
Women already have a game: The sims :P
Joking aside, A few women on my friends list play Bad Company 2, GTA 4 etc.
I think it’s daft that companies think that women want all cutesy stuff tbh
21/06/2011 at 10:33
Member since: Aug 2009
Still doesn’t stop The Sims from being so cruely addictive….. I don’t understand why people hate it for what gender it attracts. Its better than Grand Theft Auto hehehe….
21/06/2011 at 10:42
Member since: Oct 2009
Better then GTA?! GTFO! xD
Nah, I don’t mind The Sims. It’s alright :)
21/06/2011 at 10:37
Member since: Jun 2009
I’ve seen a lot of girls playing Modern Warfare 2 actually.
21/06/2011 at 12:57
Member since: Feb 2009
I’ve also seen only 10 year olds playing MW2, so its hard to tell with all the high pitched noise in the lobby haha.
21/06/2011 at 10:27
Member since: Jul 2009
Oh dear, if the PS4 goes the way of the Wii, I am out! I don’t want to wave a wand at my game, I don’t want to navigate using a camera, I DO want to sit down, Dualshock in hand and kick back to good graphics, indepth stories and epic adventures. Sony is beginning to loose their way. :( (note, rumour and hearsay noted).
21/06/2011 at 10:28
Member since: Aug 2009
Nah they won’t do that, they’d lose customers
21/06/2011 at 10:37
Member since: Jun 2009
Who said anything about Women = Motion Control. I (should) mean more In-Depth stories and less Killfest games.
21/06/2011 at 10:27
Member since: Aug 2009
Justs needs more memory really and I don’t see the point of building a game thats for just one gender. Isn’t it better if it was more equal? besides what the Wii and the DS have got is just shovelware. Oh yeah! a model game from Ubisoft!, Hairstyle maker! and er… Barbie SIM???
Don’t do it Sony… ban them and encourage more Littlebigplanets!
21/06/2011 at 10:38
Member since: Jun 2009
I wish I could type as succinctly as you, good comment! :)
21/06/2011 at 12:53
Member since: Aug 2009
I’m surprised, thanks haha :)
21/06/2011 at 10:35
Member since: Jun 2009
What’s wrong with that, in general women and men find different things interesting. I would also like to point out that a lot of games nowadays are being more orientated towards a wider audience: Mass Effect, Uncharted, Heavy Rain etc. Which I find a lot better, games like COD, Gears of War and Halo are games purely marketed at males and I would like to point out that most people are getting pretty tired of them, (well me an my friends are anyway).
What I’m just trying to say is that saying that your making more games for females doesn’t necessarily mean that more ‘Barbie’ games are going to be made or ‘Fitness Game X’, it just means that more games are going to be made that can be played by a wider audience and are less alienating. /rant
21/06/2011 at 10:36
Member since: Nov 2009
It seems Nintendo did the right thing by creating a console that is slightly more capable than the competitors and is still accessible by everyone who bought a Wii since the Wii-Motes are compatible.