06-18-2007, 07:17 AM
great read a tad long...
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By the fall season, software developers will start introducing new offerings designed to nudge players to bond with Grandma, balance their hormones and eat their peas.
Ubisoft - the French manufacturer better known for its top-selling "Rayman" game and Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon" - is betting on an emerging family market with a vocabulary building exercise game called "Word Coach."
Also in the works is "My Life Coach," which will be packaged with a pedometer and a portable DS player that analyzes walking and rewards exercise and a hearty breakfast with game play.
Konami, the Japanese manufacturer of rough-and-tumble sports titles like "Pro Evolution Soccer," is poised to offer a beauty care guide on DS consoles for women yearning for dewy skin. The game player dispenses customized advice based on the player's basal body temperature and hormone balance.
Ubisoft - the French manufacturer better known for its top-selling "Rayman" game and Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon" - is betting on an emerging family market with a vocabulary building exercise game called "Word Coach."
Also in the works is "My Life Coach," which will be packaged with a pedometer and a portable DS player that analyzes walking and rewards exercise and a hearty breakfast with game play.
Konami, the Japanese manufacturer of rough-and-tumble sports titles like "Pro Evolution Soccer," is poised to offer a beauty care guide on DS consoles for women yearning for dewy skin. The game player dispenses customized advice based on the player's basal body temperature and hormone balance.
seem the studios may have been perusing wiiloaded:
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Some game developers are braced from a backlash from hard-core gamers who are already worrying in blog postings about whether their interests will be eclipsed by mass market forces. "It's not about moving from our core franchises," Steckler said. "This is about continuing to bring these franchises along and adding others.