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Data's good, and it's even better with context - you'd be hard pressed to find anyone from that time who'd describe either PS1 or 2 as a slow burn. For ex., check out the year 2000 and the release of the Playstation 2 - demand exceeded production, and the PS2 was sold out. I remember...

If the game is resold, then the publisher who could have sold a new copy to the next player who buys it always loses money. the only way the publisher doesn't lose money is if no one ever buys the resold version of the game. I dig what you're saying - that if a game is resold but used to buy...

People who work in the games industry care...a lot. Imagine you sell 4 million units of a game. 2 million are sold back, then sold to another consumer for $5 less. The devs who made the game..the publisher who backed it...see none of the 2 million units that are resold. It hurts anyone who...

Data please. Thanks.

I remember getting an Atari Force comic book in my copy of Galaxian for the 2600...maybe there was some backstory there? I can hardly remember now.

Interesting that the author used the term user experience design - it's usually used for user interface or interaction model design. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(game_term)

True, though when you've got a sample that large, you've got to consider the probability of making a Type I error. It would be interesting to see the study itself, especially a power analysis and the number of comparisons run on the data, etc. I would not be suprised to see a relatively...

You don't have control conditions in a correlational studies. Or to put it another way, the part of the article that says those who don't play scored 21% is your base rate. We've got to assume from the report that there's a significant increase in depression levels associated with...

I used to enjoy this forum more prior to you posting 700 times a month. Blanket statements and insults only breed more of the same, and the forum community will live up (or down) to the standards of the loudest - or in this case, most frequent - posters. You seem smarter than that. Go...

RAK, check out: The Medium of the Video Game by Mark J. P. Wolf; Ralph H. Baer for history on the Magnavox Odyssey and lots of other interesting VG history.

I'm going with defender as well.

Wow. You usually only see this argument from fanboys in forums. Sony's taking fanboy logic to the streets!

Proof that sometimes, you just can't win.