My best friend, who's almost a TOTAL non-gamer, reads the New York Times website obsessively and she sent me the following article:
In the List of Top-Selling Games, Clear Evidence of a Sea Change
The following excerpt pretty much covers the gist of it, although the whole article is worth a read, I think:
"Put another way, it may be a sign of the industrys nascent maturity that as video games become more popular than ever, hard-core gamers and the old-school critics who represent them are becoming an ever smaller part of the audience."
I wrote a
blog post once about this very thing. I didn't use NPD data or anything, but the basic idea is the same. As a "hardcore gamer," I know for a fact that my opinions and gaming desires don't really mean anything anymore. This makes me sad.
