Do people honestly still think that? Because exhibit A
and exhibit B
Kind of proves that it's a bunch of horse wank.
A lot of arguments that I saw brought up is that often games with female characters that do sell well are part of long established franchises and that acts as a crutch. Well, I give you two games that sold very well, one being part of franchise that was only niche before this entry (and even then the connections to the previous games seem to be pretty thin) and one being an entirely new IP. Neither had any crutches that they could fall back on, they had to make their success on simply being good, and they did.
So do people honestly still buy that horseshit? Are there people still out there saying that there's justification for saying women don't sell well?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u4-FCsiF5x4/maxresdefault.jpg
and exhibit B
http://media.gamerevolution.com/images/boxshots/nier-automata-pc.jpg
Kind of proves that it's a bunch of horse wank.
A lot of arguments that I saw brought up is that often games with female characters that do sell well are part of long established franchises and that acts as a crutch. Well, I give you two games that sold very well, one being part of franchise that was only niche before this entry (and even then the connections to the previous games seem to be pretty thin) and one being an entirely new IP. Neither had any crutches that they could fall back on, they had to make their success on simply being good, and they did.
So do people honestly still buy that horseshit? Are there people still out there saying that there's justification for saying women don't sell well?