Del Murder online statistics and surveys truly are about as meaningless as personal opinions are. Everyobody knows that you can easily suade statistics to get the results you want to get.Originally Posted by Del Murder
The simple fact is is that most people do indeed tend to lose interest in video games as they grow older. They often either lose interest completely or do not play that seriously anymore. Yes there are an increasing amount of older people playing video games for the simple reason that people who grew up in the video game age are now adults. But still the majority of those kids from the early console eras still do not play nearly as seriously as they used to. They may own a video game system but that video game system often just sits there 90% of the time. And when they do play they tend to just play games that can be completed real quickly. Nothing that takes 50 hours to beat. Honestly the most effort I see adults putting into video games from my experience are either games like World of Warcraft or sports games (I have never seen or talked to a single person playing a japanese style rpg since I was in college).
Open ended worlds where the player can do what they want tend to be more appealing to older gamers (for those that do put in the effort to play those types of games) than a game where they have to follow a strict path.
And that is probably why games like World of Warcraft do so well these days. Because it attracts a very wide audience of gamers and not a very small window like Japanese style rpg's do.
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