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On 21 April 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved from Digital pet to Virtual pet. The result of the discussion was moved. |
Is it better if we give the term "Digital pet", Entertainment robot and Ludobot a new categorization? In fact the word "Virtual" is opposed to "Actual", while the word "Digital" don't carry such meaning. But the current definition of Digital pet is limited to Virtual pet with no physical existence.
Therefore, I think Digital pet should be something in-between "Entertainment robot" and "Virtual Pet". We can consider "Virtual pet" and "Entertainment robot" as a sub-category of Digital pet.
Is it better if we merge the content of Entertainment robot and Ludobot together. Move the current content of Digital pet to Virtual pet, and have a new "Digital Pet" entity which describe the common issue for all of them?
Thanks for reading this and please comment. Ben Cheng 14:06, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't Digital Pet redirect to Virtual Pet (which is the more common term)? тəzєті 17:27, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
I removed Aibo and Furby, because it doesn't seem to be the right kind of pet. I interpreted the description as strictly digital simulations of pets, without the physical toy aspect. It could be blurred in the future, of course. -- AySz88^ - ^ 05:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
But on certain sites you have to feed the pet to make sure thart it doesn't die and stuf, so its kinda like a build up to a childs firdst real off the screen pet, so i disagree.
Similar are the varied Monster-raising video games, including the aformentioned Digimon, Pokémon, Monster Rancher, Nintendogs, and Jade Cocoon. One could also suppose that Yu-Gi-Oh is the third generation from this.
I'm not sure what this sentence really means, but Pokémon itself is nowhere close to a Digital pet, and the same goes to Yu-Gi-Oh and Monster Rancher. Maybe there is a small subset of these games that are Digital pets, but aren't most of these franchises mainly RPGs?-- AlphaTwo 20:17, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Could the creature from games like Black & White 2 be considered a Digital pet? Jaco plane 02:40, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
"Virtual pet websites, such as Neopets, Marapets and Zetapets, are usually free to play and accessible to all who sign up. They can be accessed through web browsers and often include a virtual community, such as the planet Neopia in Neopets and the world of Marada in Marapets. In these worlds, you can play games to earn virtual money; which is usually spent on items and food for your pets. Marapets has several in game currencies, and money is earned from battling, restocking and playing games." - That last statment seems to be less a description on virtual pet websites and more a plug for Marapets. Shouldn't it get removed?(Clearly the whole section needs a rewrite, but that one line seemed especially bad) 69.19.14.21 03:56, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Doesn't seem too bad to me. It just sounds like a description of the game - if the same is written for other entries, it would make things less like advertising though. Owlqueen 22:11, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Bobble the Little Blue Owl is one I have been playing around with for a while and is a fun simulation that gets progressively harder to maintain as the pet grows up from bouncy ball to little owl. He is at http://www.bobblethelittleblueowl.com/. Owlqueen 22:09, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Why is it called a 'Digital pet'? When you look up virtual pet sites like 'Neopets' they have a link to 'virtual pet' that goes to this article. Virtual pets are pets that you can play with/take care of online, while as digital pets are pets that are on special gaming systems, such as Tamagotchi. There is a difference. Of course, if this was changed there would need to be a whole new article about Virtual pets.
There is very little information on this page in regards to digital pets like Tamagotchi, which are mentioned but not included as a type of digital pet. The page includes website and software based pets, but not portable devices. While these were certainly not the first type of digital pets to exist, they are what started a fad in the late '90s that made them much more popular. -- 192.107.155.5 ( talk) 20:39, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
Suratda Suratda boonchern ( talk) 12:11, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
This article seems to be stuck in 2004. E.g., statements like "Digital pets have no concrete physical form other than the hardware they run on" are predicated on the idea that these only exist in software to run on your computer or a dedicated mini-tablet like a Tamagochi. Today, the vast majority of these toys in are firmware-run robotics/animatronics that interact with kids (or adults, for that matter), and move, "talk" (play back recordings or use speech or other vocalization synthesis), light up in patterns to express "emotions", etc., etc. There are several categories of these things, ranging from mini e-pets that ride on a kid's finger, to wrist-wrapping ones, to larger walking/rolling toy bots, which range from cutesy plush toys to more aggressive hard toys (dinosaurs, dragons, etc.), and naturalistic to fantastical. There's a huge market for these things, and it's not even new; the first interactive robodog ( Aibo) pre-dates Wikipedia by about 5 years. We have no article at Interactive toy which is a semi-common term for them, but too ambiguous/vague (are there any toys that aren't interactive in some sense?); and robopet, which is sometimes also used as catch-all, redirects to WowWee (presumably for a trademark, perhaps on RoboPet?), but is not mentioned anywhere in the article.
I'm not certain we need a separate article; if we do the two should be well cross-referenced.
PS: There's a whole other category of these things: mobile phone apps that provide e-pets, often in a multi-pet "collector" mode; most often, these seem to be "idle games", requiring less frequent interaction than the old-school "feed me or I die" type. Probably the most famous of the Android/iOS apps is Cat Game - The Cat Collector!, though there are innumerable entries in this market now. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 11:24, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) ASUKITE 15:15, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Digital pet → Virtual pet – The WP:COMMONNAME by far in Google Ngrams with "virtual pet"'s usage rising far more than "digital pet"'s throughout the 1990s and remaining much higher to this day. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ ( ᴛ) 05:41, 21 April 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Colin M ( talk) 14:10, 5 May 2022 (UTC)