Do you think a game console is a toy?

[S.T.A.G.E.]

Mnementh said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
Online communication and alternative apps are now fused into gaming.

Ie: my mother bought me a nintendo console because she believed it was a toy marketed at children.

Today: when my mother comes over she saw the transformation of what consoles are today and she wondered why she still has a dvd vcr combo.

The reason why the playstations have always had the edge on the competition is because sony always takes risks on new formats most people cannot afford and because wider gaming market consumes it as a cheaper cd, dvd or blu ray player they can enjoy their movies on it. This drew a lot of gamers into gaming who werent necessarily before. It also made it something marketwise that adults could enjoy. This is why microsoft follows the formats sony uses, because they want to be just as attractive. Even nintendo dont see eye to eye with sony had to eventually give.

You make it sound as if toys would be exclusively for children and toys for adults are inexistant. Also you still bring up formats, that have nothing to do with something being a toy or not.

What would you call D&D? Im curious. A toy is an object to be manipulated. It has no goal...it just is. A game has a purpose for competition or a goal to either win or lose vs something or someone. In D&D, its to survive the DM. A toy is an object that is used with no goal in mind outside of personal amusement through manipulation.

In America Videogames are one of the major reason for the fall of Toy companies in the 90's. They used to sell videogames in their own section of Toys R Us. Where I live it is a wasteland and KB Toys of dead where I live. Gamestop destroyed all of them when they gobbled up all of the videogame stores. 

There is an evolutionary process in which they are used to help the thinking process.

Toy= Object  to be manipulated.

Game= Vs (sport) or Goal based endeavor 

Puzzles= Twsts of intellect to find a code or answer.