Slashdot Mirror
No One Watches Online Videogame TV
GameDailyBiz talks about disappointing statistics for anyone who enjoys online videogame related video or podcasts; Almost no one watches them. From the article: "didn't even recognize that I might have made a mistake until I ran across a recent Forrester Research marketing report. The report found that while 25% of online households have expressed interest in podcasting, only 2% had experimented with audio downloads but did not listen on a regular basis and a mere 1% of households actually download a podcast onto a player. For most new tech trends a 1% percent adoption rate might be admirable or even encouraging. However, podcasting is a nerd darling. On tech blogs and nerd-news centers podcasting been proudly crowned the Wave of the Future(TM). Currently, the search site PodNova is tracking more than 55,000 different podcasts. Yeah, 55,000 channels and apparently nothing's on."
The article was by an American website and was posted on Slashdot which, while certainly having a sizable non-American following, is also very American centric. The politics section in particular makes it pretty clear how American centric this website is. I am not saying that this is a good or bad thing. I am just pointing out that it is pretty well implied that when they talk about "no one" wanting to watch video games, they are talking about Americans. Reading Slashdot is like reading an American newspaper. Unless they specify another country, they are talking about the US.
For those who don't read much foreign media though, give it a try. Maybe I am just weird, but I always get a little kick about reading about what "the Americans" are up to. Reading about your nation in third person is very refreshing. I personally have bookmarked media from Japan, Taiwan, China, India, Russia, Britain, South Africa, and Al-Jazeera. Even state media is interesting, if for no other reason then trying to see how other governments spin different things.