What is a reference game? I had no idea until I started yakking with my friend about that lol-worthy Bartender game.
Japan has started making a bunch of these games... which can't really be classified as games... that basically give you information about ... things in life. How to prepare for a date. How to make drinks. They aren't games, because you can't win or lose with them. The Bartender game just has a bunch of recipes for drinks in there. You don't 'make' them and give them to other people to judge. And it's not like Cooking Mama, since you can win or lose in that game.
It's a lot cheaper to buy a DS and a game like this, than to buy some other sort of referencing equipment (Like a Palm Pilot?). I guess a lot of adults find something like this useful. I don't... really care one way or the other. If people want reference games, then that's okay. They can learn things that way. I just don't think these games will make it to America, unless the reference game market skyrockets. Even then, it'd be risky. So, whatever.
Well, I was wondering how you'd make a drink on the DS anyway.
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Maybe lots of adults in Japan own DSes even if they're not a gamer. No clue! But there's definitely a market for these games there, otherwise they wouldn't keep churning them out.
On the other hand, the majority of adults in the US don't own a DS unless they're a gamer, and if they're a gamer they'd probably scoff at these types of 'games' anyway. And I'm sure kids'd love receiving "Gardening for Dummies, the DS soft".
Y'know what I think'd be cool? Travel guides on the DS. Like, they have an entire section for travelling to specific places in bookstores, why not put them on a game card?
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