SEATTLE: Microsoft has won over 20-year-old gamers, who spend hours a day launching rockets and firing plasma guns on the company’s Xbox 360. Now it wants their moms.
To lure them, the world’s largest software maker says it plans to add more family games and redo retail displays to make the children’s titles easier to find. It also may cut the Xbox price, which is as high as $399, analysts say.
Microsoft is emulating rival Nintendo. The Japanese company’s Wii console outsells the Xbox 360 in the US by appealing to women, children and the elderly, a strategy Microsoft says it needs to adopt to win a broader audience than the first Xbox attracted. “If we don’t make that move, make it early and expand our demographic, we will wind up in the same place as with Xbox 1, a solid business with 25 million people,” said Peter Moore, a vice-president who oversees the Xbox. “What I need is a solid business with 90 million people.”
Saki is in her last year in university. She is 22 years old, born on January 6, 1989. After her parents died she lived with her elder married sister and her baby. She visited New York City as part of her graduation trip with her friends and after visiting Washington D.C. alone, she met the boy Akira who helped her out
Akira Takizawa lost his memory during a brain washing program. At first he thinks he is a terrorist. He met Saki in Washington D.C., being naked and only carrying a gun and a cellphone. When he helps her out, because she threw a coin in the grounds of the White House and is questioned by policemen, she gives him her coat, scarf and her hat.
