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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
LOL. That report claims that 40% of "game players", not "gamers", are women.
My wife plays solitaire on her phone almost every day. I'm sure the ESA considers her a game player for their stats, but she certainly isn't a "gamer" by any stretch of the word.
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Hence the quotation marks. The line is rather blurred these days, considering just about everybody plays games on their smart phones. The original term "gamer" simply meant "somebody who plays video games" (or rather, GAME playeR).
These days it's almost like there's a stigma attached to it, mostly because the term invokes the rather archaic vision of 14 year old boys playing atari games. Or rabid xbox/playstation fanboys. Everybody who buys and plays a game is a gamer from the industry's point of view, and that's the view I subscribe to.
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Sorry but I strongly disagree with this. The majority of young people never got books long before there where video games (or TV for that matter). Reading is only one form of entertainment and not one everyone enjoys.
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Don't sink to his level mate, he's just trolling. It's been the same every time a new form of entertainment arrived and overtook the old. Oh no, radio is killing books, video killed the radio (star), and now Ebert is proclaiming that movies are vastly superior to games despite admitting that he's never played a modern game. Like getting sex advice from a virgin.
Really, he compared the entire video game industry to the equivalent of playing with a jo-jo. Let him sit in his corner and shout his lungs out.