Dead Or Alive...Or Soft-core Porno

I personally have never owned a game from the franchise, Dead Or Alive, nor have I ever played these games, but I feel that there isn't much more to grasp from this 3D fighting game other than the mostly female (and mostly scantly clad) cast.

     I can't imagine this game is as much about beat downs as it is about boobs.  I remember a younger version of myself basically only wanting to own one of these games because of the girls with big animated breasts on the box covers.  Displaying the game in this way is obviously intentional and used as a strategy to lure in horny teenage boys. 

     On the other hand, this strategy could be helpful in showing young boys the capabilities of strong women.  I'm sure if a feminist made a fighting game, they'd want to have a cast with at least half female characters, and why not let the women flaunt their beauty a bit?  It would stick it to the typical, muscley male characters if it were seen that even the "dainty" and "fragile" women were capable of kicking just as much ass as the men can.  Plus the girls are better looking anyway.

   Sadly, I'm sure it isn't seen this way.  I remembered wanting those games when I was a young teenage boy but realizing the sex appeal lure wasn't worth the outcome.  This particular series is mostly rated M for Mature.  However, M rated games rarely contain nudity or extreme sexual themes.  Basically this would mean that buying a Dead Or Alive game would be a tease.  Why would anyone expect that a game that bares as much as it will on the cover would be worth buying? What is the real stimulation?  I figured that this game is just about as close to pornography as a game will get, so why buy a $60 game when internet porn is free? Would men rather just be teased?

   Not that this should be an alternative of course, but there isn't much of a point to a game such as that.  A game should be judged more on it's interactivity, ingenuity and innovation with game play and story rather than simply sex appeal.