Jan 21
Writers’ Strike Pushes Peeps to Surging Game Biz
On the heels of the announcement that the WGA (president Patric Verrone, pictured above) will be recognizing video game writers for the first time at their annual awards show, let me bestow you with some interesting tidbits that’re comin’ at’cha courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter.
- 27% of Americans are spending less time watching network TV
- 12% are watching less cable
- 94% are aware of the strike
- 33% have changed their media consumption habits because of it
- 26% are now spending more time playing video games
Given the fact that the gaming industry has just enjoyed, financially, its Best Year Ever (cue cheesy VH1 intro sequence), and considering the abundance of stellar titles that have recently come out (and are on the horizon), one hopes that this legion of freshly re-dedicated blistered-thumbs remains on our side… the dark side, that is. I mean, come on - TV is what iPhones are for, now. Why waste your plasma’s precious time, when you could be racking up even-more-precious Xbox Live achievements?
On a slightly unrelated note, you know that the 94% awareness statistic listed above is valid, when people like my grandma (who’s never even seen the internet in her entire life) are calling me up (on her WWII Era rotary phone), and trying to talk about click-through download residuals. Even more frightening is when people like her, and her purple-haired fellow octogenarian friends absolutely school my ass in a game of Wii bowling.
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The other 6 percent must be the jackasses who only watch reality shows (or the people who ignore entertainment altogether…but then again what’s the difference?).
Swell first post.
Welcome to the team!
Woo, I was the new guy for only like 5 days. Welcome to MEGATONik.
Thanks, ya’ll. I feel all warm and fuzzy inside… but maybe that’s just the Jager Flambe talking…
^Noted. This just in: The die-hard ‘Keeping With the Kardashians’ fans have been all but unaffected by the strike. More on that as it unfolds…
Network TV = AIDS for your brain.