Is “Style Savvy” A Nintendon’t?

We’ve written before about how the video game world has tried to infiltrate the (seemingly unrelated) world of fashion, and today we look at CNET’s review of the Nintendo DS game Style Savvy, the latest attempt by the king of video games to break into a more fashion-minded demographic.

Style Savvy is a retail simulator game, with an emphasis on racking up points based on customer satisfaction.  The concept is simple enough and exhibits a moderate level of rather enjoyable gameplay, but CNET writer Scott Stein questions the game’s presumption that only girls will be interested in the game.

We agree with Stein’s unease, because fashion is not meant to be limited to only one group of people, and the idea that shopping and style are somehow “for girls only” is incredibly outdated and, frankly, insulting to the thousands of men who find fashion to be an important part of their personalities.

Fashion is not gender-specific, and we hope the rest of the world will soon understand that truth.

Read the full story {CNET}






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