Sorry, I don't listen to someone who confirms he doen't know what he talking about in the same sentence he's trying to make a 'solid statement'. At best, he's trying to not anger people with his statement and comes across as 'half-way' on the topic. At worse, he truly doesn't know what he's talking about and is saying it just for political points.
In any event, my view is that games are not the problem, but the way people use them. You could just as soon blame TV, movies or even books as being a distraction. Its been proven quite extensively that games still are not as widespread as any of those mediums, but why do they get singled out? Heck, why isn't he making a statement against the porn industry? Where's the productivity and future in that? Yet its a billion dollar industry as well.
The fact is, 'games' are not the problem. Its the people playing the games who cannot control themselves who are. You could just as soon take away someones TV set than take away their XBOX. Neither one is going to solve the problem. They'll still find something else to become an excuse instead of doing homework, going to work, interacting with family. Be it drugs, smoking, even browsing forums online.
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