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>Somehow we never got a significant market of computer games for adults

Most of today's gaming industry is targeting adults. Kids rarely have the money to purchase 70$ games more than once or twice a year.




OK I mean real adults :) The same demographics who you would imagine as a typical reader of Agatha Christie or Tom Clancy, football or horse race enjoyer in the era before computer games and internet


I think the idea that thriller novels or horse racing are more mature than video games questionable, however. Your average adult thriller (or hollywood AAA movie) has a plot that would sit right alongside video game plots.


Don’t you think someone who only ever consumed pulp genre fiction might be thought of a bit negatively?


The claim was that readers of Tom Clancy are more mature than video gamers. I found that claim surprising.


Only as much as someone who’s only ever read shallow corny “action” novels.


Uh, isn’t that the same thing?


What the hell do you think Tom Clancy writes.


Genre fiction? What are you trying to say?


Ubisoft literally has dozens of games branded "Tom Clancy's", so I think we're not too far from that


Their parents very well might.




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