http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11008605/

Sorry probably belongs more in nuggets, but seriously everybody knows sex sells. but with the reasoning behind the ban is what pisses me off. Them giving into legilastors who want to tone down video games for all the wrong reasons.

“Material, including live models, conduct that is sexually explicit and/or sexually provocative, including but not limited to nudity, partial nudity and bathing suit bottoms, are prohibited on the show floor, all common areas, and at any access points to the show.”So... can wear them to the beach, but not at a software trade show...

Personally, I always thought that the outfits worn at the game conventions were much tamer than those worn at car shows.

This is clearly an outrage! I demand booth-babes be mandatory at every booth!

LOL, you will be able to go to any car show or NASCAR sponsored event and see more skin than at a gaming convention. I love the hypocrisy that is becoming more and more the norm in this polarized country.:p

Meh. I figured with the backlash against 'Hot Coffee' and other such highly blown out of proportion scandalous things (Jack Thompson, I'm looking at you), there'd be something like this spilling onto E3 as well since its basically the major computer gaming expo that everyone has heard of before, somehow.

Personally I think its silly using breasts to market slipshod games (I'm not mentioning any, but Sony products come to mind), because if the company in question does not deliver on the game that they lured people to with scantily clad women, there will be a backlash against it and they may end up losing money in the long run (the gaming business from all I've read is a really tough one to get through. Microsoft is actually losing money on ever 360 they sell at this point).

Personally I think its silly using breasts to market slipshod games

Why should slipshod games not get the same marketing treatment as sunglasses, shampoo, softdrinks, beer, and just about everything else, hehe?

Show most teenagers a picture of a bunch of kids enthralled with a new video game, and then a picture of the video game simply being held by some gorgeous lady with a scanty costume and nice figure, and which one do you think will entice them to buy?

I didn't quite get my thought out fully. I agree that scantily clad women sells things, but I just think its silly that thats the most effective way to these days. I'd personally go with the more innovative commercials like what Nintendo did with the revolution demonstration/commercial (where they had the people demonstrating the kinds of games that could be done using the controller). Toting your product couched by a pair of breasts is getting old.

You mean no one is allowed to wear bathing suit bottoms? I think I'm going to find myself a gaming convention.

Toting your product couched by a pair of breasts is getting old.

Says you...

Show most teenagers a picture of a bunch of kids enthralled with a new video game, and then a picture of the video game simply being held by some gorgeous lady with a scanty costume and nice figure, and which one do you think will entice them to buy?

Perhaps counterintuitively, the answer is A. People may *look* at the tits first, but buying decisions are almost always socialisation impetuses.

Boobs are the best marketing tool since Boobs. If you want ladies to buy, couch them between a pair of new Shoes.

/nod

I find it funny that you see more virtual skin in the games than you are now allowed to see at the booths advertising the games!