Why Do Games for Girls Suck?
Crispy Gamer: "There was a bit of buzz last week surrounding an interview that USA Today conducted with Microsoft head-honcho Steve Ballmer. The article was picked up by Kotaku and thereafter lambasted in the comments section with all the usual fury and derogation that comments sections are known for. In the original article Ballmer talked about the Kinect and more specifically about its role in Microsoft's initiative at attracting a young female audience to console gaming.
It is easy to balk at anecdotal comments from Ballmer like, "My wife used to say, 'No, no, that's the machine the boys use,' and now she says, 'Yeah, I want to go watch movies. Let's go play the dance game.'" Comments like these send the blood pressures soaring among female gamers, especially those of us who remember the 90's and the first push at including women in the world of games with such memorables as Secret Paths in the Forest.
Yet there may be many out there, like Ballmer, that don't get why the push to make games accessible to women in this way is offensive, so I'd like to take this opportunity to break it down."
