From the New York Times
There is also a longer-term concern that the video game business is not growing beyond the subculture of hard-core gamers. The number of consoles in use continues to grow, but at a November investors' conference, Nintendo's vice president of sales and marketing, Reggie Fils-Aime, said that the number of United States households with a video game console had not risen significantly in more than a decade.
And several major games fared below expectations, including True Crime: New York City and the new James Bond game from Electronic Arts. In December both Electronic Arts and Activision, two of the biggest game publishers, warned that their sales would be below initial projections.
Are we really worried about this? In my book this may actually be good news.
We get all the obesity stories, and video game violence stories.
This should be headline news: Americans curb the urge to
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