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

[Jordahn]

RolStoppable said:

Jordahn said:

RolStoppable said:

I didn't say that Sony stopped anyone from playing a PlayStation game, I implied that their focus on a particular age group caused many adults to stop gaming. Which makes sense, because most of the games targeted at 15-25 year olds are seen as juvenile by most adults.

OMG.  You just said "I implied that their focus on a particular age group caused many adults to stop gaming."  But your previous statement was "I didn't say that Sony stopped anyone from playing a PlayStation game."  What do think playing a PlayStation game is, NOT gaming???  Yeah, you and others think this obviously.  Playing PlayStation games in general is gaming, and just because there is a target audience for most ANY product does not necessarily stopping anyone from trying their products.  And in your OPINIOn that most "games targeted at 15-25 year olds are seen as juvenile by most adults."

There is a difference between those two statements. The first one ("I implied that...") means that Sony didn't prevent anyone from playing their systems and their games. People chose to not play them, because in their opinion those games didn't seem to be for them.

But actually, I am not quite sure what you are talking about. The conclusion you drew from my post feels so... random.

Justify it however you want because SONY did make and push games that appealed to an older audience.  You have to have a target audience to have a focus to make a product have a more distinguishing feature.  That's how it was done by making more "mature" games.  They helped retained some older gamers while also bringing in new gamers as well. I'm an old guy and a dying breed while the younger ones have stepped up to help continue this thing called gaming.  There are plenty of younger PlayStation gamers that regardless of what SONY's target audience is have bought into the console because of its games regardless of console generation.  Too much blindness from illegit SONY hater here, and too much false justification.  I know where you guys are coming from because I used to be a SONY hater as well.