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S.T.A.G.E. on 02 August 2013
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Soundwave said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
walsufnir said:


Yep...exactly the reason all the toy stores went out of business where I live. Babies, toddlers and very young children are the only reason Toys R Us still exists. K B Toys went ouf business where I live because of EB Games. Electronics took over and kids are kicking over toys just to get their hands on games. They are desensitized to the effects of technology. Then the Playstation came onto th scene the game industry grew by like forty million+ and continued to grow there after and then MS segmented that crowd. Thats an effect if I ever saw one. Today the average gamer is an adult. 

This was going to happen anyway. You had the NES generation of kids, then you have a second wave of kids entering gaming in the 90s. The kids who grew up with the NES liked gaming enough to continue to do it, and you had a second wave of kids coming in too.

It was an inevitable compound effect.


I was one of the kids who entered gaming in the 90's. In the 90's games were considered toys by the wider media and most households until the Playstation. The multimedia effect is the key term here, otherwise nothing would have change. The multimedia effect triggered Microsofts entrance into the industry.