Quote Originally Posted by darkchrono View Post
The video game genre link might be a little more reliable because it has to do with actual sales instead of surveys. In that link rpg's are fairly low for consoles but high for pc's (probably due to mmorpg's).
Well I dunno about you but I'm not talking about RPGs in specific, I'm talking about vidya gaems in general!

Quote Originally Posted by darkchrono View Post
Nope it is because the reason for gaming being that it is for just to kill time and overcome stress our by far and away the largest reasons for gaming. Also the reason for gaming being for the popularity of the game really starts decreasing once people become adults.
Same with this, I don't really care why people are playing, I care that they are playing. People watch TV and movies to kill time and overcome stress, as well. Heck, they read books for that reason too.

The second link you provided is interesting, although if the graphs are accurate, then I feel we should note two things here: a.) we're still looking at video game playing rates of 50% well into peoples' 40s, which is a lot, and b.) Atari was founded 40 years ago. Coincidence? I think not. As gaming matures, the people who grew up with games will mature as well.