Sony: We “Legitimized [Gaming] As A Form Of Entertainment!

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Killiana1a said:

puffy said:

That video posted above is required viewing for this topic.

All Sony did with the PS1 was target a more adult audience, which doesn't make something 'more mainstream'.

 

@Killiana1a: You didn't respond to me properly. "Video games are nowhere near the social acceptability as sports or other forms of physical recreation." That's all well and good but what about TV, movies or books? They're all mainstream entertainment and I'm sure they are similar to video games in terms of social acceptability when compared with physical recreation.

Television is the mass medium for the masses no matter age or income. People watch television.

Movies are in the same boat as television, but recent years have been hard for movie fans who want original masterpieces. We are seeing a lot of remakes and a lot of cheesy blockbusters lately.

Books are tough. It is hard to criticize them, but clearly we all do not read enough.

I would say television, movies and books alone are solitary, sedentary activities even in comparison to video gaming where one go online and play with others or invite others to play with them in a room.

All are mainstream, video games will be mainstream once the Baby Boomers die off and their antediluvian critical opinion regarding new forms of entertainment they deem as bad or lazy because they did have it when they were young die off.

Video games will be mainstream and I can see Morgan Webb and G4TV becoming the ESPN of video games much to the chagrin of Nintendo fans who loathe her due to her unrelenting criticism and glass half empty view of Nintendo.

All of these general forms of media are mainstream.  The real issue of being mainstream are the genres in these medias such as animation, but then you have your sub-genres such as anime.