pariz said:
Actually, I've been thinking about it for a while.
Gaming today is quite different from what it used to be back in the 90's.
I assumed all the FPS love shown in video games these days, specially in the US, has a lot to do with their foreign politics in the last decade and how that impacts in its society and its culture. At some point I think it helps to legitimize warfare as a mean of solving political issues.
And it's a fact well known that the most FPS oriented console out there is the XBOX 360. It is also a well know fact - or at least, a well spread prejudice - that the most warfare oriented political party in the US is the Republican one.
This is not intented to offend anyone. It's just my opinion.
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Well most of my friends are Progressive Liberal and we love shooters and nearly all of them have 360s. See the difference is we know a video game is fake and sure shooting aliens and bad guys on a screen isnt the same as sending kids off to war. The Republicans I know have Wii's, think it is because they also are less open to what thier kids experience and control what they say and hear more and they feel safer that the kids wont see something violent on the Wii.
