Nintendogs

Just had a quick play on this on an in-store demo DS. Cute! I think Nintendo are going to sell bucket loads of DSs this Christmas because of this title. Kids are going to lap it up (no pun intended :). It's really going to appeal to young girls, too - especially as Nintendo are doing Nintendogs packs with pink DSs. Gotta take my hat off to Nintendo on this one.

just wondering if someone has attempted a virtual pet game with blitz? Could be a bit of a money-spinner... maybe!?

You could make one with kittens and call it Blittens. :P

Do you really think that kids will like Nintendogs?

Maybe I'm way out of touch with "da kids" these days, but when I was young no self-respecting young lad in the playground would be seen dead (or admit to) liking games about little fluffy puppies.

And I also don't think that many typical young girls care about handheld gaming - even if it does come in pink. Most girls just aren't into gadgets. Maybe the nerdy, gadget-loving gene is mostly exclusive to guys.

I think that the only people who think this is a great idea are EDGE journalists and pretentious game snobs who think that anything non-mainstream and different is good.

They don't have to be on the playground, do they?
My experience says that 60% of them have a secret obsession with all things fluffy.

A few graphs that Nintendo showed off before releasing the Revolution controller should set your facts straight. The DS and Nintndogs sold excellently to small children, females, and people over 50.
Of course, these are just people who registered... but nobody has done statistics on how many people reister stuff, so meh.

And the millions of people who bought the game, and the thousands of people who showed up to get it signed by Mr. Miyamato, and IGN, and Gamespot, and all the other reviewers which exist who all gave the game a good rating, and Nintendo, and newspapers which occasionally mention the latest in interesting software, and people who like to play games that are in the least bit different from the last one.

Isn't "And" a stupid word?


I plan to buy Nintendogs eventually, to see what it's all about, but I think I'll wait until I can get it off a bargain rack -- I don't want to spend $60 so that I can look like a mentally handicapped person who talks to his game boy ;)

Yes. Have you actually played it?

I'll admit that Nintendogs will probably appeal more to girls but that's not a bad thing.

I disagree. Videogames are an exceptable, mainstream pass-time these days and that goes for girls too. There are lots of young girls these days with handheld games machines - particularly Nintendo ones. Maybe not as many as boys but still a significant number. Remember Pokemon? Those titles sold loads and I can't see why boys/girls would feel OK playing those but not a virtual pet title.

Then I must be a pretentious game snob, seeing as I don't work for EDGE magazine. :)

Wow, Flameduck has a lot of quoting to do to beat that ;)

The amount of times I went to Walmart to actually see a kid with their parent getting them a copy of Nintendogs.......well, ok, I only ever saw that happen twice. ;P
(could make that thrice if you include my sister, who seems obsessed with the game before I picked her up DDR Extreme2 yesterday {god that game series is SO bloody hard to find in Canada})

I'm with Picklesworth though, goin to grab me a copy when the price drops, I aint much a pet lover (already got enough kittens irl {stupid farm animals} to keep me busy), but I'm willing to try-out any high-rated DS game), and I'm currently waiting for my local Wal-Mart to get a damn copy of the new Castlevania game in.

I hear so much about Nintendogs....I'm thinking about getting a DS just to play it....



The Sims was quite non-mainstream when it was first released.......

I bought my gf (and myself :P) a Nintendo a few months ago to play it.

I also bought two copies of Nintendogs from overseas, so when people saw us talking to our nintendo's, the ones who didnt think we were wierd, asked us how we got the games- ;)

I paid $42.xx for my TWO copies in total. yet, i saw it in the shops this morning: £29.99 each... so it cost me less to import it INCLUDING shopping fees!

so...yeah...£29.99.....UK...

so...yeah...$42.99.....US...for two...

I think everyone should import :)

You US people are quite lucky when it comes to prices of these things.. ¬.¬

I actually thought about making an animal sim a while back, before Nintendogs. But it turned out that Nintendo seemed to read my mind and their game ended up the same way mine was supposed to. So I stopped and then decided to start work on an uber-violent FPS. :)

You could have turned the dog into a Rodent Of Unusual Size :(

Am I the only one that remembers Catz and Dogz? I had the Catz virtual pet on my desktop about 10 years ago.

Just did a quick google search on it and it's still going!
http://petz.ubi.com/

Yeah, i had Catz, too. Using the catnip was fun, as was colouring your cat some rediculous colours. :P

Christ! has Nintendogs only come out in the UK?

It's been out for ages and with the DS being region free, why haven't you just bought the American versions months ago?

Is it an actual game?

AND saved yourself a ton..


Alright, i'll stop going on about that-