Bill Gates: “Viva Piñata is for young girls”
Do we really need to comment anything else?
Bill Gates has summarized the short-sighted approach of Microsoft to creative and original videogames, as it can be seen in an unknown video interview recently uploaded to GameTrailers. While talking with his interviewer, Gates doesn’t hesitate to describe Rare’s Viva Piñata as a game most adequate “for young girls.” Gates appears to be trying to demonstrate the wide range of gaming options of the Xbox 360. Instead of that, what he manages to do is to prove the lack of vision of Microsoft when it comes to understand the qualities of their own products.
Knowing this, it’s hardly surprising that they still have so many problems selling games in Japan, where people learnt long ago that a cute design doesn’t mean necessarily only for kids. No to mention the chauvinist cliché of beauty and gardening meaning girly stuff. Anyway, it became pretty clear by the last generation that Microsoft’s idea of games for mature men had to be full of nasty monsters, coarse soldiers and whorish amazons.
Bill probably didn’t mean to say that. He simply didn’t know the game of which he was talking about. But he did expose by his unfortunate comment the problem of a whole Western gaming community and its industry. It’s time to grow up.
Somehow related news
- Microsoft wants Piñata to expand into new areas ()
- Only The Good Die Young ()
- Kawaii Piñatas! ()
- Mayles, Betteridge and Cook in the audio spotlight ()
- Keener on foreplay than gameplay ()
2 Comments
(Clicked wrong button….) Ta-da, you now have the capability to have more than 4GB of RAM on a 32-bit OS. To prove it was just laziness, install XP 32-bit. Use a program called TweakNT and change it to Server 2003. Apply the PAE switch and boom, you have more than 4GB RAM capable. The only diff in XP and 2003 is 2 registry keys and 2003 has a better core. Other than that, they are identical. Bill is useless nowadays…
Comment by Ranger135xp — 04.Aug.10 @ 10:13 pm
This is the same with him saying that there are no good 16-bit applications left out there and that 64-bit only needs to back-step to 32-bit. There are plenty of good FREE apps out there that are 16-bit or have 16-bit installers. Microsoft is just too damn lazy to make 16-bit compatible on a 64-bit OS. Oh, and just to prove a point, 32-bit can handle around 256 GIGs of RAM. Microsoft was just being lazy again by not having 32-bit XP or Vista or 7 handle more than 4GB or RAM. Don’t believe me? Install a copy of Windows Server 2003 32-bit and apply the PAE (Physical Address Extension) switch. Ta-da, you
Comment by Ranger135xp — 04.Aug.10 @ 10:09 pm