Video Game Editorial of the Day

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If you only read one video game editorial today, make sure it's this one. :cool:

In 2013 alone they were also a $21 billion business in the U.S. And still, in the rare instance that the nightly news even mentions video games, it’s likely to be an ill-informed pundit grandstanding about violence in games, or video footage of “booth babes” and cosplayers at a convention, without considering the huge amount of money, time, and people involved.
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OTOH it's a highly fractured market: PCs, consoles, and mobiles, and each category is further fractured.
 
Nice short concise article about the size and importance of video gaming. Screw consoles PC gaming rocks! :)
 
If the Consumerist wanted to write a respectable article about video games, maybe they should remove the quotes around the two miserable mentions of "Nintendo", the oldest company of the 3 major players.
 
There is no way these numbers are accurate. All of them seem way too high.

By the numbers…

• 59% of Americans play video games
• 51% of all American households have a dedicated video game console
• 58% of all American adults have a smartphone
• 71% of players are over age 18
• 81% of young adults ages 18-29 play games
• 23% of seniors over age 65 play games
• 48% of players are girls or women
• 36% of players are women over age 18
• 17% of players are boys under age 18
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Khaos Kid said:
There is no way these numbers are accurate. All of them seem way too high.
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I'd say it's simply unlikely that the numbers are entirely accurate. The article does have data to back up its claims, though I do think the phrase "of all American X" is not really useful since it should be "of all Americans we successfully polled".
 
cortexodus said:
though I do think the phrase "of all American X" is not really useful since it should be "of all Americans we successfully polled".
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Well that's pretty much how surveys/studies work, right? You can't exactly poll every single American, but you can draw a general conclusion based on a large enough sample size.
 
MavericK96 said:
Well that's pretty much how surveys/studies work, right? You can't exactly poll every single American, but you can draw a general conclusion based on a large enough sample size.
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And that is the problem, out of 300+ million people, a "large enough" sample size is all but impossible to achieve. A sample of three million people is only 1% of the population and I highly doubt the people that wrote the article polled that many. Lets be generous and say they managed to poll 300,000 people. That is .1% of the population and .1% is way too small a sample from which to draw any conclusions.
 
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