Kenryoku_Maxis on 22 January 2010
| Scoobes said: I reckon about 30-40 years and games will be taken seriously by the media. The ridiculous sales of games like MW2, GTA and Wii Sports help, but until more people from the current gens grow up and enter media jobs things won't change. |
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.
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