Nintendo DS Forum

" Nintencats.  They sit there and ignore you until you want something. Then they bite and scratch you...  YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN MIYAMOTO! "

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      /facepalm

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" What will you even do in that game?  Watch as your Nintencat sleeps for 23 hours a day and then eats and poops for the remaining hour? "

" Nintendogs was fun for like 2 weeks.  Then it just got boring. "

" @Linkyshinks said:

Not Sony on the evidence of their new iPet on PS3.   Young girls love kittens, I can see this selling very well worldwide. There's a large audience in want of such software, in turn, large sums of money to be made. That will always be enough for any developer who wants to make money.   This would easily be another million plus seller for Nintendo, my only wish is that they use the funds wisely elsewhere. "

My thoughts, exactly.  Don't get me wrong, I love cats myself, but I like being able to hold them and actually play with them... If my parents had brought home a virtual cat when I was young I would have looked at them as if they're crazy. I can even see the conversation that would have resulted.   "Look honey, you're very own virtual pet cat!"  "Gee... thanks mom and dad, how... thoughtful..."  "Now, sweetie, you know we aren't allowed to have real cats here  (or insert any other excuse a parent would use to justify this purchase -- cost, allergies, etc), so this is the next best thing, right?"  "Yeah... I guess.... if you can really compare a video game to an actual pet... *sigh*"  "Look! You can play with it and teach it tricks!"  "That's great, dad, you have fun with that. I'm going to go outside and pet the neighborhood cats. You know -- the kind of cat I can actually pet and feed."   And so the parents plans to get their child outside into fresh air wins! Curses! "