Natal Is For Girls
July 1st, 2009
Apparently the Wii really helped Nintendo out of a whole. They were not doing that well before they released the Wii, but this revolution in gaming by simplifying the controls, making the gaming more accessible and making it much more physical seems to have taken off big time.
Not surprising that Microsoft have seen this and thought we want a slice of the action. The result, the Natal project.
What has come to peoples attention is that it’s women who have really embraced this new technology. Games like Wii Fit are primarily targeted at women and are very popular with women.
This is good news for the gaming industry as previously computer games were not nearly so popular with women. By making games more popular to women you basically have opened up a whole new market which will probably be worth an absolute fortune to the industry.
I think that the Natal will help to further the popularity of computer games and therefore make the computer games industry even bigger. I think that even old people may even get into computer games more. The fact that you do not have a controller will mean that they will appear much less complicated and will not scare older people off.
If the Wii is anything to go by the Natal will be very popular with girls and this could mean big profits for Microsoft.
Categories: Opinions