Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Actually, a lot of people from the 80s and 90s have gone on to enter both the 'media' industry and gaming industry. The problem is, those two industries are so lucrative, you have to have both extreme credentials AND pretty much 'know the right people' to get anywere. As for melding both those industries together, we've seen what happens with that idea with sites like IGN, GameSpot and etc....that's just an extension of the worldwide problem of media bias. And I doubt if a new group of people took over those sites that we'd see much of a change, just a new set of bias. |
Perhaps, but I think gaming was and still is in it's infancy. even in the late 80s and early 90s it was still seen as more a thing for children to do. Playstation introduced the concept of an older audience with it's games, to the mainstream, but that's still less than a full generation (not console- 20 yrs) ago. Although PC games may have been seen as mature before, they really didn't enter mainstream attention. There are probably very few gamers in senior management positions within the mainstream media.
