RSSOnline Casual Gaming Taking Off
By the Betanews Staff | Published August 14, 2006, 1:45 PM
A new study indicates that American adults are becoming increasingly addicted to casual video games, opting to play them over other activities including watching television, watching movies, or going to see a movie at a theater. Released by Harris Interactive Monday and commissioned by RealNetworks, the survey found that 31 percent would rather play an online game for one hour than watch television.
A smaller percentage, 21 percent, would rather play games than watch movies at home, but a larger group numbering 35 percent said the same about going to a movie theater. Online gaming seems to have its biggest audience in women over 40, where as many as half of all respondents chose gaming over some activities.
Well duh! Playing online is interactive entertainment, TV is passive. If you want to veg out, maybe you'll watch TV. However, you want to have fun and feel involved in something, you play games.
Just because its computer versus playing cards in real life doesn't make it a bad thing. All things grow and change. Can only hope that its progress in the end.
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|if you mean what i think you mean: LOL
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|I wonder what Philip Rosedale (former CTO of RealNetworks) would have to say about this.
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|Took them this long to figure this out look at places like pogo many people have online and offline social groups nowadays.
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|wow lol.
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|oh god no less people are buying movie tickets because of games!! ban games!!! **** off this world is so s***ty you need an imaginary outlet.. i couldnt imagine living in a world without trival entertainment behind a screen
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|Was that sarcasim? I personally can't wait till TV is totally gone...
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|I wouldn't hold my breath, if I were you. ;)
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|um, DUH!
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|i would also assume that you stopped reading too soon as well ... unless you think 40 year-old, bored housewives and shut-ins prefer soduku to sitting on the couch eating ice cream and watching oxygen (ouch, did i say that?). see below.
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|It's obvious. Why would i want to watch same movies all over again where you can, well just watch (Stargate series are exception :saint:).
Good games can be on same level as movies plus you can change the course of action on your own. Deus Ex and System Shock 2 could be easily compared with movies + interactivity.
So this info doesn't really surprise me...
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|you stopped reading way too soon.
as much as i'd like to believe that mind numbing games like deus x, halo and half-life are taking couch potatoes and turning them into gaming zombies the article first off mentions that the study was commissioned by RealNetworks (HINT) and it refers to "online" games which based on the HINT i would take to mean online soduku, hearts, spades, etc. ... or are there a lot of women over 40 pwning people?
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|I have a ton of female friends that love to play FPS games.
pwning isn't a word.
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