For me, no, but for every other teenage guy yes sadly. I think i was the only one who didnt see Jenafers Body, the only reason why anyone saw it was because Megan Fox was in it.
Poll: Does sex actually sell in video games?
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Very few games have sex as its main selling point anyway, and those games usually don't get found in Europe or America (I'm assuming you're from Europe or America, as you profile doesn't say) due to censorship from the Entertainment Software Rating Board[footnote]http://www.esrb.org/index-js.jsp[/footnote] and the British Board of Film Classification[footnote]http://www.bbfc.co.uk/[/footnote]. However, countries like Japan, where censorship and opinions on sex are much lighter than they are in other countries, have had various genres dedicated to the very topic in the past. The differences [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/89398-Rape-Game-On-Amazon-Triggers-Anger-Outrage] in censorship [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/92012-Rape-Games-Banned-in-Japan] and opinion [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/92036-Rape-Games-Not-Banned-in-Japan-After-All] on the displaying [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/92126-Rape-Games-Banned-in-Japan-For-Real] of explicit material [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/92285-New-Eroge-Regulations-in-Japan-Unveiled] between various countries [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/93631-Japanese-Eroge-Company-Renames-Rape-Games-to-Platinum-Games] has especially shown this year [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/94275-UN-Group-Urges-Japan-to-Ban-Explicit-Games-and-Manga]. And in Japan, games with sex as the main selling point do sell, some games making up to 300000 copies [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanon].TPiddy said:
As for other countries, I doubt it would sell as much as it used to, but it is still an aider in boosting sales. The days of a teenager wanting to buy a game with partial reasoning being the possibility of getting off over it is quite finished over here -- the people who did do that grew up and decided that it just wasn't the same after the days of teenage hormones and adolescense ended and that it was a stupid thing to do. As well as that, we have more equality between men and women than we did even in the days of the PS1 and the boom of sex in gaming. But, that doesn't mean that sex in gaming no longer helps; whilst Tomb Raider, as you said, doesn't make as many sales as it used to, it still sells and that could be argued as a result that sex in games still sells, just not as much as it used to.
I think games try to make attractive lead characters to help sales. Point and case: RE5. (WET has this going for it a little bit too.) RE5 was a great game, but I think they also tried to lure male gamers in with an attractive lead character, Sheva. Same with WET. I think they were aiming for a little more "flagrant" main character when they designed Rubi.
Yeah, it does.
However, like you said, X-blades is having a walk in shite-sales lane. This is probably because most of the population have learnt that developers strap tits to their games to make it better. So they wait for their stupider friends to get the game, have one go at it and then lock it in a wardrobe to hell.
However, like you said, X-blades is having a walk in shite-sales lane. This is probably because most of the population have learnt that developers strap tits to their games to make it better. So they wait for their stupider friends to get the game, have one go at it and then lock it in a wardrobe to hell.
This.matthew_lane said:
Sure the target audience for video games loves boobs, ignoring the fact that people other than the target audience play them, but there's only so much shite you can attach boobs to before you stop getting away with it. X-Blades, anyone?
I see a lot of people agreeing, but to what extent does it actually hold true? I can't remember the last time I bought a game because there was supposedly some form of sexual content in it. I guess one could argue that it's a subconcious thing, but even then.. I don't think sex really sells when it comes to videogames.
OP: you're making a critical mistake. Tomb Raider didn't sell because of the sex; there is no sex in Tomb Raider. Tomb Raider sold well because the heroine is sexy (generally speaking; personally I've never seen the sex appeal of a huge pair of spheroids with legs).
The other games you mention, instead, very often make sex their sole selling point, at which point they all fail miserably because the developers can't get it in their heads that porn must either be non-interactive, or fully-interactive (as in, virtual reality stuff à la Ghost in the Shell). Everything else is a no-go.
Sex games will be all the rage when we learn to simulate sensory input properly (some food for thought: will anyone ever have real sex again when you can put on a brain interface and have a top model orgy?), but right now they have the problem that the game gets in the way of the sex.
Think about it. You're the average guy, you suddenly feel horny and you want to polish your sword. Which are you going to choose: firing up a videogame and following some sort of plot in order to watch crudely animated characters have polygon sex, or just loading one of a million free porn sites?
The other games you mention, instead, very often make sex their sole selling point, at which point they all fail miserably because the developers can't get it in their heads that porn must either be non-interactive, or fully-interactive (as in, virtual reality stuff à la Ghost in the Shell). Everything else is a no-go.
Sex games will be all the rage when we learn to simulate sensory input properly (some food for thought: will anyone ever have real sex again when you can put on a brain interface and have a top model orgy?), but right now they have the problem that the game gets in the way of the sex.
Think about it. You're the average guy, you suddenly feel horny and you want to polish your sword. Which are you going to choose: firing up a videogame and following some sort of plot in order to watch crudely animated characters have polygon sex, or just loading one of a million free porn sites?
If there are people who bought Mass Effect for the sex scene I pity them because they truely missed the point. So did the media for that matter, they blew up the fact that it had a sex scene and totally didn't mention the developing intimacy between Shepherd and Liara or Williams (or Kaiden I guess if you played as a chick). It wasn't just a whip your pants down now encounter; you had to talk to the characters, get to know their thoughts and feelings, fight along side them, etc, before it even developed into a physical encounter.
I don't know how many people have played The Darkness but the relationship between Jackie and Jennifer seemed organic and intimate. You didn't need a sex scene or her to wear revealing clothing to get the impression that the two of you were very close. She bought you a cake on your birthday and sung "Happy Birthday" and cuddled up with you on the couch. Best representation of a relationship yet in a game.
Anyway, back on topic. Yes sex sells. It's one of our base urges, so appealing to it is of course going to get a reaction be it good or ill. I'm wondering that now we are getting close to over-saturation with sex in the media whether we'll see the rubberband effect where things snap back and people get over seeing sex everywhere.
I don't know how many people have played The Darkness but the relationship between Jackie and Jennifer seemed organic and intimate. You didn't need a sex scene or her to wear revealing clothing to get the impression that the two of you were very close. She bought you a cake on your birthday and sung "Happy Birthday" and cuddled up with you on the couch. Best representation of a relationship yet in a game.
Anyway, back on topic. Yes sex sells. It's one of our base urges, so appealing to it is of course going to get a reaction be it good or ill. I'm wondering that now we are getting close to over-saturation with sex in the media whether we'll see the rubberband effect where things snap back and people get over seeing sex everywhere.
to tell truth, if you want sex in a game... go to Japan, they have a god load of them... mainly due to the fact that. Oh, and I have discovered why in anything from Japan, women have big breasts, it is because, the women from Japan, have very small ones.
