She Who Survives

As a battleworn and fanatical, self-confessed N-fangirl, I can say that we were originally definitely planning to buy a PS3 at launch. Now I can say that our small family unit will only possibly be purchasing a PS3 at launch.

"But you like Nintendo," you cry! "Why spend so much money on this garbage?"
For we are completists and hoarders at heart. We'd like to think we have access to every console from the outset, charismatically riddled explosive components they have not yet fixed. We are the annoyingly hardcore, fortuitously endowed with the 'standard' technologies to enjoy highbrow gaming as the Sony upper-class would like to believe they have.
(And would you believe that I spend more time with my DS? Guess that drops me out of the hardcore category and bunks me in with the 'non-gamers' that Nintendo are offically trying to rope in.)

While $600 is still a lot of money to spend, remember that the PS3 is yet another console that Sony will sell to myself and others at a gravedigging loss.

Unfortunately, there are very few exclusive Sony games we'll actually be purchasing; they will likely not make their money back on us.

For the sake of Sony, I can only hope the masses of extremely affluent, sophisticated, popular, physically attractive, manly and well-hung chick magnets that are Sony crusaders will have 'invested' their money so wisely that they will actually paid my tab. Bravo, brave men!

(Oh my, I've left witty out of my description. Please, someone call an ambulance, these barbs about being richer and better versed in the ways of valuing their bags of money over me are all too much. Ouch!)

I applaud this idea, if only on the shaky moral ground of gaming equality between genders!

Yet, the gender-choice factor never made a difference to my gaming experience. I can't say it's made a difference to any of my girlfriends' tastes in gaming.

I have yet to have a female friend decry the tantalizing battlelust of Battlefield because she's not been able to select a hearty female warrior dressed in cuddly pink camo. Contrary to popular gaming belief, we're not THAT superficial.

Frankly, if this were ever widely implemented, I think the bigger cheer will be from the male faction who is sick of looking at another boy's bottom/back of the head/other graphic while playing.