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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 catsarebetter »

onemiketwelve wrote: post #121
ArtWomb wrote: post #80

Ghosts of Tsushima may be the best Playstation game I have played EVER. It's a testament to how late in the console release cycle, developers are just now mastering internals. It's the ideal video game: open world, 13-century feudal Japan, Age of the Samurai. High contrast "Kurosawa" mode, 4K HDR is cinematically photoreal. I really hope it remains a Major IP for many years to come ;) https://blog.selfshadow.com/publ…

I can't believe I've never heard of this before. Am I really going to have to buy a PlayStation just to play this? Hmm

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

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

catsarebetter wrote: post #230

I talked to an executive at Skillz a few years ago and she told me that one of their main growth strategies was actually to target prospective women that could be gamers. The way it worked was that a few of Skillz executives were in this market, women who loved video gaming but businesses at the time refused to recognize it. Imagine a woman who plays mobile games just to kill time at the bus stop, etc. Exec told me t…

So, back in the day I worked with a lot of gaming companies on their advertising. They would point blank refuse to target women because "women don't play games". Even when we demonstrated that women made up a really sizable proportion of their audience, they wouldn't budge.

Really brought it home to me that so much bias is reproduced through the biases of advertisers, rather than the platforms.

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

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Post by hombre_fatal »

catsarebetter wrote: post #231
onemiketwelve wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't believe I've never heard of this before. Am I really going to have to buy a PlayStation just to play this? Hmm

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This isn't r/gaming. Try to write comments with at least some substance.

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

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Post by mstade »

compscistd wrote: post #101
ArtWomb wrote: post #80

Ghosts of Tsushima may be the best Playstation game I have played EVER. It's a testament to how late in the console release cycle, developers are just now mastering internals. It's the ideal video game: open world, 13-century feudal Japan, Age of the Samurai. High contrast "Kurosawa" mode, 4K HDR is cinematically photoreal. I really hope it remains a Major IP for many years to come ;) https://blog.selfshadow.com/publ…

I just finished playing through Horizon Zero Dawn which had been untouched, collecting dust on the shelf for a couple years. Found more time in the pandemic and I'm wondering what else I've missed out on! The only other titles I've played with great acclaim are God of War and Zelda: Breath of the Wild. From a brief wiki search, it seems outside of Nintendo, studios only tend to have one-hit wonders. I never played th…

I second the HZD recommendation – it's one of the best video games I've ever played. Funny thing is if I hadn't bought an HDR tv I'd probably never pick up the game, mechanized dinosaurs didn't really float my boat and I never saw a trailer or read the synopsis for the game. I bought it dirt cheap on sale only because it said it had HDR support and I wanted to see what difference it'd make in a game. Turns out it was stunningly gorgeous, great gameplay and a compelling story to boot!

I'm getting a PS5 this winter or next year, chiefly because of the Horizon Zero Dawn sequel – I desperately want to see where they take the story.

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

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Post by meheleventyone »

setr wrote: post #116
rsynnott wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Given the notion of "fluency" proposed by the GP, the idea would be that a "fluent" gamer would not be described with "played only X games". You would be fluent if you could "communicate" in multiple genres -- having a sufficiently thorough vocabulary.

But this is just weird gatekeeping. You could for example be extremely fluent in a single genre but uninterested in others. For example I've been playing games for over 30 years and don't really know the genre conventions of match-3 games beyond the obvious. Similarly I know very little about MOBAs or gacha style games or visual novels. And I'm a game designer!

IMO one of the worst aspects of modern "gamer" culture is this insistence on purity tests particularly when they're aimed at games that are extremely popular with women.

Even in terms of market segmentation I don't think the distinction of "overall gaming fluency" is very measurable or meaningful.

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

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Post by hombre_fatal »

otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #173

Next in news: over 6.5 trillion cigarettes are sold per year. shrug I wonder what the public health perception on videogames will be like in 100 years.

Healthy, fit people will just continue becoming more and more rare and ascendant in our society.

Though in 100 years we'll have VR that's as seamless as unlocking your phone. Maybe games will be the healthy jacked guys in school through all the incidental exercise.

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

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

nottorp wrote: post #219
bjo590 wrote: post #5

> Analysts point out that almost half of the accounted three billion are those who play only on smartphones or mobile devices. This segment is also ahead of all others in terms of growth. This segment is incredibly lucrative for the winners. Niantic has an estimated revenue of 800 million dollars. Supercell's highest reported revenue was just over 2 billion euros. King sold to Activision Blizzard for 5.9 billion doll…

Yeah, Im not sure you can call free to play IAP grindfests “games”. But still, that means 1.5 bn play actual games? Not bad.

It varies, like. Most mobile games are pretty crap, but you have people like Supercell who make good mobile games - I don't like their games, but lots and lots of people do.

And to be fair, most "actual" games are pretty crap too.

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

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Post by jariel »

My father still does crosswords daily. Much of this amounts to digitised Soduku, Crosswords, Solitaire etc.. - passing time on light fare.

A new Netflix special on games 'High Score' touches on the gender issues and how some games for whatever reason have entirely different demographic appeal: Pac Man and Tetris were (still in the later case) disproportionately popular among women.

The medium obviously allows for much more, but we can't ignore the social parallels.

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