Nintendo Holds Pre-Teen Slumber Party for Dragon Quest IX

[Raiha]

first of all, this isn't creepy, it's marketing. stop thinking that anything having to do with young girls has to do with sex. second, this could potentially be a brilliant marketing strategy for nintendo. if it doesn't work then its a relatively small financial loss for nintendo. its an attempt to get people not usually considered gamers to try it with very little downside. more power to them.

 

[Magners]

Doesn't the DSi have some sort of... camera? Nitendo's true intentions are coming into fruition

 

[alik44]

...and when u though nintendo could not get creepier

 

[RootbeerJello]

This is... what? No, I was never even here. My account got hacked or whatever. I was never here . I don't wanna get blacklisted for reading this.

 

[bubba145]

Whiskey
Tango
Foxtrot

 

[Catalyst6]

though I can totally understand Nintendo not wanting to host a slumber party full of grown hardcore RPG fans.

Yeah, I suppose the murder of every person at the party in a LARPing gone wrong would create some pretty bad press for Nintendo...

 

[Raiha]

first of all, this isn't creepy, it's marketing. stop thinking that anything having to do with young girls has to do with sex. second, this could potentially be a brilliant marketing strategy for nintendo. if it doesn't work then its a relatively small financial loss for nintendo. its an attempt to get people not usually considered gamers to try it with very little downside. more power to them.

What this does is play into the "Nintendo is for kids" mentality. Now that's a problem here because up until now, Dragon Quest has not been considered a kids game. I guess even the non kids games are now for kids if they are on a Nintendo console or handheld.

not every kid should, or even wants to, play a game where you can eviscerate an alien with a chainsaw-rifle. don't let the fact that young children enjoy this game sway your opinion of it. this is just video games "growing up" and becoming a part of general entertainment rather then a niche in the market. embrace it because its only going to get bigger.

 

[Swifteye]

This is what saddened me about the game, it didn't feel like a Dragon Quest game, maybe it's not targeted at the fans anymore...

Not really have you ever played the orignal ones like say three which has a very similar idea IE: customizable heroes and allys.

that twelve year old slumber party idea is really weird though but if they think that will work..... Also where can I get that king slime beanbag I want it NOW.

What's wrong with some of you guys talking about how these games are kiddy and so forth didn't we all play these games when we were twelve?

 

[Raiha]

i am a 26 year old male and i loved the game. it's simply not to your taste and thats fine. but i doubt that nintendo sat down and had a meeting one day and said "i think we should make the next dragon quest game, one of the most popular franchises in our home country mind you, specifically for 12 year old girls. this is the smartest decision we can make with this franchise at this moment." it sucks that a franchise that you once loved has gone in a direction that you don't particularly like but that is simply a part of life.

 

[Raiha]

i am a 26 year old male and i loved the game. it's simply not to your taste and thats fine. but i doubt that nintendo sat down and had a meeting one day and said "i think we should make the next dragon quest game, one of the most popular franchises in our home country mind you, specifically for 12 year old girls. this is the smartest decision we can make with this franchise at this moment." it sucks that a franchise that you once loved has gone in a direction that you don't particularly like but that is simply a part of life.

Apparently Nintendo DID decide to throw a slumber party promotion for 12 year old girls.

yes they did. however my statement was more sarcastic then i could convey through words alone. sorry, without body language and tone i think my meaning was lost. one, relatively small, marketing event does not mean that nintendo designed the game solely for that demographic. it means that they wanted to increase their sales numbers and saw a potentially untapped fanbase. and getting young kids into video games is not really a bad thing. the kids playing dragon quest and mario galaxy now could be the people playing the next killzone or halo in the future. think of nintendo as a type of training camp for future hardcore gamers.

 

[natster43]

That is creepy. Please don't be creepy Nintendo.

 

[Zero_ctrl]

Hi, I'm Chris Hanson...

 

[2fish]

This whole idea just seems odd to me does marketing not know how to sell games to pre-teens? I mean this sounds like it was a last minute "oh crap we need to market this in a new way" idea. Well will be interesting to watch, if it works I will happy, after all we shall assimilate moer gamers that way.

ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US

Hi, I'm Chris Hanson...

 

[Jodah]

I...I'm...speechless. I really do not know what to thing or say about this...