Policeman Blames London Riots on GTA

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RolStoppable said:

o_O.Q said:

"It doesn't matter what grosses the most. The important thing is the actual breakdown of popular movies." "If there's two popular non-violent movies for every The Dark Knight"

you still don't really have a point here for all the movies that have come out over the summer and maybe in general for this year, last year etc in terms of genre distribution action movies, horror movies... violent movies in general... all together dominate the movie industry period... 

"Sports Central 2 isn't even a game."

my mistake i actually mean't kinect sports

" Journey, the Team Ico Collection and Ratchet & Clank certainly won't be big"

i agree for certain that they won't outsell games like CoD or battlefield and i never said they would i was simply making the point that they are games with a lower level of violence that will be available

funny enough now that i think on it when you count in xbl and psn releases the proportion of violent games to non-violent games isn't as bad as people make it out to be its just that games like CoD and battlefield tend to garner more attention and those games are over shadowed, that however, doesn't mean that they are unavailable just that people tend disregard them

" if it weren't for Nintendo, then the situation would look even worse."

aside from zelda ss which allows people to slash at monsters with a sword what else is nintendo releasing on its home console over the holidays that will be "big"?

I don't pay much attention to movies, so if you can provide some data, it would be much appreciated. I just can't see violent blockbusters outnumber comedies, animated movies etc.

XBLA and PSN games can't be blockbusters and therefore don't matter when it comes to the public perception of the video games medium. For the average less informed person (and that's the one that matters when it comes to putting blame on video games, because they are much more numerous than the more informed ones and also more inclined to believe unfounded claims, simply because they don't know any better) those games do not exist, only the ones that get exposure through TV commercials and other general media. I hope you are able to grasp this basic concept that availability alone doesn't cut it.

Nintendo will also release Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land during the holiday season. Your qualifier (home console only) makes no sense, because we are talking about the medium as a whole. Also, cartoon and fantasy violence can be found in comedy movies and animated ones, so Zelda's violence really is of a different kind than the one found in games like Call of Duty. But a handful of Nintendo blockbusters per year aren't enough to counteract the general direction the video games industry is taking anyway.

"I just can't see violent blockbusters outnumber comedies, animated movies etc."

this explains it "I don't pay much attention to movies" but no i don't have data its just readily apparent for anyone who does

"Nintendo will also release Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D"

ok so 3 titles including the one where the guy goes around slashing monsters... both microsoft and sony are pushing more non-violent games over the holidays as i already mentioned i'll revise to exclude remakes and psn/xbl titles ok so just off the top of my head :

microsoft : kinect sports 2, dance central 2, forza 4,  sesame street etc

sony : singstar back to the 80s, rachet and clank all 4 one, eyepet 2, the medievil move game etc 

and thats just what i remember