Nintendo teams up with Playboy to promote Bayonetta 2

[Joni-san]

Article with pictures over at Nichegamer

Nintendo also suggested more revealing outfits for Bayonetta.



There are no brakes on the hype train.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

How is Playboy still a thing? It was great when I was 12 and my Dad had them hidden in his bathroom, but is there still a viable profit margin in tame nude pictures?

I would have assumed they had gone out of business a few years ago and weren't available for any kind of cross-promotions.

 

[Bronzeage]

How is Playboy still a thing? It was great when I was 12 and my Dad had them hidden in his bathroom, but is there still a viable profit margin in tame nude pictures?

I would have assumed they had gone out of business a few years ago and weren't available for any kind of cross-promotions.

It still comes in the mail once a month. I think my subscription is going on 40 years, now. Thanks to Playboy, I know how to order wine in a restaurant and how to buy a suit that fit. I also knew what a clitoris was, before I actually met one. That's something that shouldn't be discounted in this world. Playboy was one of few magazines which was always on the forefront of liberal politics, especially on civil rights and women's rights. It was one of the few places where one could find arguments against the War in Vietnam, something considered close to treason in mainstream media.

Playboy, like all paper mags, has faced hard times in the digital age, especially in their target demographic of young men who have money to spend. I'm not surprised to see them working with video game producers.

The naked women are good, too. Times change and Playboy changed with them, sometimes in surprising ways. If one looks at today's Playboy, the amount of pubic hair seen is exactly as much as was exposed in the 60's. We sell a lot of vintage Playboys. It's popular to buy a young man the issue from the month he was born as birthday gift.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

How is Playboy still a thing? It was great when I was 12 and my Dad had them hidden in his bathroom, but is there still a viable profit margin in tame nude pictures?

I would have assumed they had gone out of business a few years ago and weren't available for any kind of cross-promotions.

It still comes in the mail once a month. I think my subscription is going on 40 years, now. Thanks to Playboy, I know how to order wine in a restaurant and how to buy a suit that fit. I also knew what a clitoris was, before I actually met one. That's something that shouldn't be discounted in this world. Playboy was one of few magazines which was always on the forefront of liberal politics, especially on civil rights and women's rights. It was one of the few places where one could find arguments against the War in Vietnam, something considered close to treason in mainstream media.

Playboy, like all paper mags, has faced hard times in the digital age, especially in their target demographic of young men who have money to spend. I'm not surprised to see them working with video game producers.

The naked women are good, too. Times change and Playboy changed with them, sometimes in surprising ways. If one looks at today's Playboy, the amount of pubic hair seen is exactly as much as was exposed in the 60's. We sell a lot of vintage Playboys. It's popular to buy a young man the issue from the month he was born as birthday gift.

Ya, I get how there's a niche nostalgia market amongst established customers, but I don't get how that's enough to maintain the publication. Unlike 40 years ago, the information about how to order wine or buy a suit that fits or navigate your way around a clitoris is a quick google search away with far more details, step-by-step video instructions and alternative points of view available. It being on the forefront of social change a couple of generations ago is not relevant to the value it provides today. You can customize YouPorn searches based on the hairiness of the pussy that you're interested in.

If I had an extra $10/month to spend, I just don't see any rationale as to why "I will use this to buy a subscription to Playboy" would be a more legitimate choice than literally anything else.

 

[Bronzeage]

It still comes in the mail once a month. I think my subscription is going on 40 years, now. Thanks to Playboy, I know how to order wine in a restaurant and how to buy a suit that fit. I also knew what a clitoris was, before I actually met one. That's something that shouldn't be discounted in this world. Playboy was one of few magazines which was always on the forefront of liberal politics, especially on civil rights and women's rights. It was one of the few places where one could find arguments against the War in Vietnam, something considered close to treason in mainstream media.

Playboy, like all paper mags, has faced hard times in the digital age, especially in their target demographic of young men who have money to spend. I'm not surprised to see them working with video game producers.

The naked women are good, too. Times change and Playboy changed with them, sometimes in surprising ways. If one looks at today's Playboy, the amount of pubic hair seen is exactly as much as was exposed in the 60's. We sell a lot of vintage Playboys. It's popular to buy a young man the issue from the month he was born as birthday gift.

Ya, I get how there's a niche nostalgia market amongst established customers, but I don't get how that's enough to maintain the publication. Unlike 40 years ago, the information about how to order wine or buy a suit that fits or navigate your way around a clitoris is a quick google search away with far more details, step-by-step video instructions and alternative points of view available. It being on the forefront of social change a couple of generations ago is not relevant to the value it provides today. You can customize YouPorn searches based on the hairiness of the pussy that you're interested in.

If I had an extra $10/month to spend, I just don't see any rationale as to why "I will use this to buy a subscription to Playboy" would be a more legitimate choice than literally anything else.

It's probably too late.

Somethings fall into the "if ya gotta ask, you'll never get it," category. You seem to base your judgment on an observations gathered when you were 12. Fair enough. What I learned from my years of reading Playboy is as valuable as anything I learned from the New Yorker or Newsweek(no longer available on paper). The great thing about Playboy was they knew what I needed to know and were eager to share. I could have gone to the library and found books by James Beard on wine, or Conde Nast on men's wear, but without Playboy, the names would mean nothing to me. To say what Playboy offers the young professional man of today can be found by a google search, is to say all internet knowledge is equal. I don't believe that is true.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

So, you're reading Playboy because of the articles? I always wondered if there were ever anybody who actually did that.

Is it just a men's magazine like Maxim with full nudity?

 

[Bullmoose Too]

I have read both Playboy and Maxim for the articles. Personally Maxim had the better articles.

 

[Bronzeage]

So, you're reading Playboy because of the articles? I always wondered if there were ever anybody who actually did that.

Is it just a men's magazine like Maxim with full nudity?

I read Playboy for the articles and because there are naked women in between. I'll give full credit to them for molding much of my personal philosophies and politics. It also allows me a feeling of great smugness when I hear the "read it for the articles" quip, which was probably old before I actually learned to read.

I never bothered with Maxim. It's just a Playboy wanna be, less the nipples. Some marketing genius looked up one day and said, "Look, if the girls keep their underwear on, we can sell this rag on the front of the newsstand, instead of behind the counter." It's no coincidence that Maxim appeared when more graphic masturbatory material was becoming very easy to access.

 

[Keith&Co.]

So, you're reading Playboy because of the articles? I always wondered if there were ever anybody who actually did that.

Personlly, i'd say i subscribe for the articles. I like their editorial policies. Their columns, the interviews, the college writing contests.
I read for nudity first, then the jokes, then the letters to the editor and their replies, then articles.

The magazine is having a hard time financially, they've combined a few monthly issues into one. Right now, i think they're sending out ten issues a year, but still offering the twelve centerfolds. Two for the Jan/Feb issue, and so on.

So i send my money in, part for when i was 12 and stole them out of Dad's closet, and partly to keep up their articles. I like the fact that someone's saying what they're saying, even if i disagree with a specific editorial.

 

[rousseau]

I have read both Playboy and Maxim for the articles. Personally Maxim had the better articles.

That's not saying much for Playboy at all, although I haven't read a Maxim since I was about 17 or so, so while my memory of it's writing isn't great, I don't remember it being too ground-breaking.

Have never read playboy, but I guess I could see it's value before the internet was a thing. Nowadays, though, the real knowledge that a man needs to know and has readily available to him can't be found in a mass-produced publication.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Exactly. If a man needs to know something, he can just have his wife tell him what it is.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

So, you're reading Playboy because of the articles? I always wondered if there were ever anybody who actually did that.

Most certainly. My mother used to read Playboy--the braille edition that had no pictures at all and completely omitted the photo spread articles (normally they would have the text and a short description of the pictures.) Since it had nothing but the articles what else could she have been reading it for?

Is it just a men's magazine like Maxim with full nudity?

Full nudity and more in the way of useful information. I don't feel the articles are up to what they used to be, though, and let my subscription lapse some time ago.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I have read both Playboy and Maxim for the articles. Personally Maxim had the better articles.

Articles in Maxim? I've got a subscription but only because I've been able to get it free. (They put out such offers more often than once a year. IIRC I have 5 years worth of subscription at this point.) There's not much there I consider worth reading.

 

[Terrell]

I read the articles as well. When I was a kid I mostly looked at the pictures. I do wish Bayonetta 2 was available on some other consoles.

 

[Bronzeage]

I have read both Playboy and Maxim for the articles. Personally Maxim had the better articles.

That's not saying much for Playboy at all, although I haven't read a Maxim since I was about 17 or so, so while my memory of it's writing isn't great, I don't remember it being too ground-breaking.

Have never read playboy, but I guess I could see it's value before the internet was a thing. Nowadays, though, the real knowledge that a man needs to know and has readily available to him can't be found in a mass-produced publication.

Is the internet not a mass produced publication?

 

[Bullmoose Too]

I have read both Playboy and Maxim for the articles. Personally Maxim had the better articles.

Articles in Maxim? I've got a subscription but only because I've been able to get it free. (They put out such offers more often than once a year. IIRC I have 5 years worth of subscription at this point.) There's not much there I consider worth reading.

I have not read either Maxim and Playboy in years. When I first read Maxim it was still a relativly new magazine. Its articles, at that time, were better then Playboy's. I would not be suprised that the quality in the magazine's articles dropped over the years.