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Japanese women have overtaken their male counterparts to become the biggest users of Nintendo's Wii and DS machines in a seismic shift that the company said would ''transform the video games industry''.

 

If the change repeats itself around the globe, said analysts, it could force a complete change of business model for many of the world's largest games makers.

 

According to Nintendo’s own Japan-only figures, 51 per cent of Wii users and 53 per cent of players on the handheld DS machine are women. ( That is quite a lot ).

 

Read about it here

 

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/busi...icle2629649.ece

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It doesn't matter. The rest of the world's ladies still won't catch up to it.

Only in Japan......

It's a step in the right direction to say the least. It's appealing and that's what counts.

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So why don't women represent half of forum posters?

 

Because this is emulation. Never said they were intelligent enough to run a emu. :P

 

gee, that is rather sexist of you to say ;/

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So why don't women represent half of forum posters?

 

Because this is emulation. Never said they were intelligent enough to run a emu. :P

 

gee, that is rather sexist of you to say ;/

To say it in unsexist way, women just don't bother. They rather it to be "plug and play" :P

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Actually, I firmly believe everyone would rather want it easy like that. If XP was bitchin' off the bat, I wouldn't need to update it, tweak it and spit on it.

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