Policeman Blames London Riots on GTA

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Hynad said:

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Hynad said:

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o_O.Q said:

RolStoppable said:

o_O.Q said:

lol once again gaming is the scapegoat for bad parenting and delinquency... the thing that really confuses me about this is how other media like movies and music hardly ever get the same kind of blame

Simple. These other media are not dominated by first and foremost violent products. If it weren't for FIFA and PES, it would look even worse.

most of the movies that do well are action oriented ones with shooting, violence etc ( the dark night was the highest grossing movie ever i believe )

furthermore wii sports is the highest selling game this gen by a wide margin

Avatar is the highest grossing movie ever. Titanic comes after it. While lots of successful movies have violence, very few of them have gore, like most blockbuster video games.

Yet for all those soft movies you speak of, there is always a timely phenomenon like the SAW movies to counter your point.

The Saw movies aren't that successful. The entire franchise combined grossed less than the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Of course, the SAW movies were never released on DVDs, Blu-Rays or the Internet.

So were other movies, that ended up being more successful. Here's the list of the top selling DVDs of 2011 (so far):

http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/annual/2011.php

The same site has a list of the top selling DVDs last year. No Saw movie was even in the top 100. If you browse the list, you'll see that the top movies aren't very violent, and certainly not gorry.