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Good morning Sunday Infendo readers. Today, we see yet another example that the Wii has infiltrated a non-traditional avenue: Men’s Health Magazine. In the monthly “Ask the Girl Next Door” section with Nicole Beland, a reader asks the buxom beauty, “How can I get my girlfriend into playing video games?”
Says Nicole: “Calling her over to watch you pistol whip a hooker in GTA or solve the riddle of the moon druids in Myst IV is not the way. Maybe you should buy that new Nintendo system with the stupid name, Wii. It was designed to suck video-dissing women into the virtual world. Personally, I’m addicted to Rockstar’s Table Tennis and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.”
Yeah, Nicole, whatever you say. But the Wii tidbit was golden. Names aside, it’s yet another example of some solid word of mouth marketing on Nintendo’s part. Anyone else planning on using the Wii as a “gateway drug” for friends and loved ones?
The best way to advertise is with word of mouth sometimes.
ive already used the ds as a gateway. I bought my parents a ds and brain age. now my dad is hooked on darts, from clubhouse games. Im hoping this will lead to him gettinga wii. huh huh, my dad doesnt have a wii. sorry.
I guess the lesbian women can keep the Splinter Cell games, I rather watch my hot woman moving around playing with my Wii, than sit still in the couch. Remember that PSP Vs DS fan-commercial?
did anyone see the parody of the mac pc commercial on AOTS (XPlay maybe)? it has an overweight nerdy girl portraying the ps3 and an attractive blonde in her underpants for the wii.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpYgNz6W6Gs
I saw the Wii vs. PS3 with the two women portraying the systems before. It’s amusing.
I’ve already got a few people excited (I even convinced a friend of mine to buy one). My sister is really excited about NFS Carbon, but she’ll probably just rent it and bum off of my Wii.
I’m hoping to bring both my wife and my daughter back to gaming with the Wii.
My wife hasn’t played video games much since we finished the first LEGO Star Wars game on Xbox, and I can’t get my daughter off Space Channel 5 on Dreamcast! She’s old school, you see…
This is so unfair, I’m a girl and I play much more than my boyfriend (who’s an IT guy, BTW). Sure, I’m a geek and a mathematician, but hey… I’m still a girl
I’m naming my first-born Wii.
They key is to get your girlfriend interested early on. She is hopefully so taken with you that she is willing to explore your interests and just wants to spend time with you regardless of what the activity is.
Even though this article only applies to the 1% of hard core gamers with girlfriends for the rest of us it was a good read that enabled us to fantasize how we would convince a girlfriend to play games, if we had one.
I got my Wife interested in it with the mention of the Tennis on Wii sports so when i buy it hopefully she is still interested in it.