| Bodhesatva said: Okay, I'm willingto listen here. How would you capture their attention? Because clearly, the Playstation approach was failing miserably. |
I don't think there is really a necessary need to capture their attention. I don't get why you are aiming for that. Aiming for more artistic games is a good aim, but aiming for more older people to play them, how is that going to improve games? I guess more games will sell (see Wii,DS).
Also it is really hard to convince people who are not accustomed to thinking of something in a certain way to accept it other than the way they have seen it their whole life.
As in many of the older people who were either before the time of video game prominence or have stayed away from them see them as just games. While there is an argument as to violent games making these people think tgames are mindless bloodfests, there is certainly an argument to make that Brain Age style games are further enhancing the idea of games just being these insignificant toy-like products because they are not trying to push story or depth or purpose either.
I bet you the people who saw the first movies also would have never ever considered them art, merely a passtime (Entertainment) and they wouldn't accept that there could be as much depth in a movie as a painting (I'm sure there are people who still think that way). In time, with the generations of old passing away and the newer generations emergin, the definition of art will grow spread once more and people will start looking at games as a possbile medium for art. Just as it happened to movies decades after they came into being so it will happen with games.
The important thing is that until then and by that time games are trying to push further than just being a passtime and Brain Age and Wii Sports are definitely not going in that direction.
Edit: I also think animated films were always previously considered kid's material or simple entertainment, until enough time passed that people can relate to animated characters and people started making artistic animated films.
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