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Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

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Re: Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

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Post by Random_BSD_Geek »

reificator wrote: post #65
Retric wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Several versions of traditional solitaire are extremely deep games when you try and maximize your odds of winning. Video games can be mindless or mind bending puzzles. Which is why I think lumping all video games into a single category is meaningless. Beat Saber and Minecraft have little in common.

> Beat Saber and Minecraft have little in common. They're both high profile VR games.

I misread "Minecraft" as "Minesweeper" and was briefly bewildered by the idea of Minesweeper VR. Kinda want to play that now.

Re: Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

manigandham wrote: post #41
chillwaves wrote: post #29

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Those so-called "gacha" games rake in a disgusting amount of money. Even as a casual player, I ended up spending a few hundred on one.

A few hundred dollars? What does that buy you?

> "A few hundred dollars? What does that buy you?"

Let's just say that the majority of characters in Fate/Grand Order and other Asian gacha games that one can roll for are young and female for a reason...

Re: Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

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Post by gsich »

maroonblazer wrote: post #79
neixidbeksoxyd wrote: post #74

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> There’s VR, but I believe there will be a new category introduced within the next five years that will change the gaming landscape. I have been dreaming of better interfaces (controllers) for games for decades. The Wii, despite it's limited power, was a huge leap forward in how we played games. Unfortunately Nintendo is the only gaming company taking risks while Microsoft and Sony keep doubling down on graphics wit…

Keep in mind that 1/3 of the population suffer from motion sickness, so for them (I'm in this group) VR isn't an option for the most part. Of course if this is a solvable problem - those who otherwise suffer from motion sickness are symptom-free in any VR application - then I agree VR could have a bright future.

That can probably be trained away.

Re: Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

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Post by rsynnott »

throw149102 wrote: post #72
fuzxi wrote: post #34

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I get your point, but I think it's more accurately framed like so: "Over three billion people are now drinkers" "If you count having a glass of wine once a week then sure" The perceived snobbery is less about whether these people are playing games and more about whether they can be accurately described as "gamers", a term which has meaning beyond simply "players of any game(s)" due to its many (largely negative) conn…

Adding onto this, imagine how you would feel if someone said "There are 3 billion Spanish speakers worldwide" But then you learned that only 500 million were really fluent, and the rest ranged from broken Spanish that was enough to get by in a Spanish speaking country to people who were forced to take a Spanish class in highschool and never used it again. I think this concept of "fluency" in games is probably a more…

> I would imagine that someone who only played Candy Crush would not understand how to move their camera around in a 3D environment, for example

Now would someone who only played NES games, or Civilization VI, or Papers Please. Are we defining 'games' as meaning '3D walk-y about-y games', here?

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Post by setr »

codingdave wrote: post #57
klyrs wrote: post #52

My great grandmother used to play solitaire. The same way that many of us while away the night staring at a screen, she'd sit in her apartment wearing the spots off a pack of cards. Some oldsters will react to this news with dismay, but as I see it, our lives are richer for the innovation.

I still do play solitaire. I taught a few variations to my kids early on when the pandemic locked us at home. I don't judge either style of game as better or worse than the other... just different. Video games are clearly richer games, but the conversations I had with my family growing up were often while sitting around a table playing card games.

The problem there is the lack of couch coop in modern titles

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Post by spicybright »

reificator wrote: post #65
Retric wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Several versions of traditional solitaire are extremely deep games when you try and maximize your odds of winning. Video games can be mindless or mind bending puzzles. Which is why I think lumping all video games into a single category is meaningless. Beat Saber and Minecraft have little in common.

> Beat Saber and Minecraft have little in common. They're both high profile VR games.

Missing the point. Minecraft started as a creative style game that hit massive popularity in all age groups, and encouraged players to build to their heart's content without much of a goal. It didn't start in VR as well.

Beat Sabor is one of the first "killer app" VR games, with a clear goal with emphasis on reaction time and immersion using the VR tech behind it.

Both are played very differently, the former a game you come back to to refine your work over and over in a creative way, the other using reaction time to score better.

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Post by alexashka »

The bit many people are not realizing is that e-sports will overtake current sports within the next few decades.

For now, e-sports is at that sweet spot of good production value and a reasonable amount of advertising. I predict we'll be back to sitting through 3-5 minutes of commercials for every 15 minutes of gameplay within the next decade as advertisers realize how willing gamers are to spend money on virtual stuff.

Re: Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

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Post by spicybright »

Random_BSD_Geek wrote: post #81
reificator wrote: post #65

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> Beat Saber and Minecraft have little in common. They're both high profile VR games.

I misread "Minecraft" as "Minesweeper" and was briefly bewildered by the idea of Minesweeper VR. Kinda want to play that now.

I feel like there's so many games that can be VR-ified like this. Even if it's just a first person, point to a square on the floor and click, sort of game, I feel like more innovation can build on top of traditional games like minesweeper starting with that.

Re: Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

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Post by BbzzbB »

reificator wrote: post #60
HenryKissinger wrote: post #40

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PCs are more expensive than consoles, so one might be led to think that PC gamers have more money than console gamers and thus spend more on games than their console brethrens.

PCs are definitely not more expensive than consoles when you compare the TCO over a year or two, and that gulf keeps getting wider the longer you're on PC. This was true even before Steam sales and Humble Bundle and free games on the Epic Store and and and...

Notwithstanding PCs are not locked down platforms, which can make gaming much cheaper for.. reasons.
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