Oberon’s Ryan – Women Gamers Just as Competitive as Men
By Shawn on Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 2:35 PM PST In Computer, Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Games, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony
Oberon’s new COO Don Ryan has stepped right into the gender debate stating that in his opinion, there isn’t much difference between male and female gamers.
“My experience at MSN and Xbox Live is that women are as competitive if not more competitive than men, except that they just don’t want to spend or have the time or learn ‘up-down-X-X-Y-Y’…They don’t want to deal with that,” he told GamesIndustry.biz.
“You give them one button, they’ll kick your butt.”
I’ve actually seen this in action with my daughters. I nearly died laughing as my middle daughter beat the heck out of everyone using a single move on Soul Calibur 3.
Ryan is also looking to the next generation consoles as the next playground for casual titles. Although there are currently no Oberon games on the PlayStation Network or Wiiware, don’t be surprised to see them in the future.
“Ultimately, what you are going to see is the PS3, the Xbox 360…as the price curves comes down, you are going to see more and more casual content.”
This article annoys me and no not for some sexist reason but if somebody is winning over and over using the same button or single move then that means everybody they are playing either sucks or that it is overpowered.