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The first news article from The Reuters, "EA Sees Girl Power Boost with 'Sims 2' Sales"
Mon 20 September, 2004 15:25 By Bernhard Warner The creaters of a computer game "Sims" expect to sell 2 million copies of the "Sims 2" this year in Europe. This game has aimed at women and more casual gamers, so it is interesting to see this female-friendly game can beat out other male-friendly games. Althogh the hardcore gamer male group is so bigger than peaceful girl gamer group, there are a lot of market opportunity for video games to attract female gamers who seem to like "Building something" games. And the other huge opportunity for this "Sims" game is the new market of gaming on mobile phones and portable players such as Sony Corp's PlayStation Portable (PSP) hand-held player. |
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The second news article from Fort Wayne.com, "The Sims are back, and running their lives is a bigger and better experience than ever
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Tue 19 October, 2004 By JIM SCHAEFER In 2000, when a video game "The Sims" was introduced at first, many gamers were excited to play this game because this game allows gamers to control other people(the sims)'s lives. And the better version known as "The Sims2" has been back. This game provides more advanced real-life game. |