Nielson Results Reveal Consoles on the Rise

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday March 7, 2007 @09:28PM from the hard-not-to-like-those-apples dept.

eldavojohn writes "Nielson ratings are in and the results are that gaming is continuing its steady trend upward. A study released Monday entitled 'The State of the Console,' describes America as an increasingly game-centric country. 'Nielsen Media Research found that 41.1 percent of households with televisions in the U.S. now have gaming consoles. That number represents an 18.5 percent increase since 2004, according the research firm, who used a sample of 12,000 TV-viewing households for its report.'"

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Re:It's better to play video games than watch TV. by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-08 00:26 · Score: 1, Insightful

On the other hand there really are no educational console games, while there are countless TV programs that try to teach you (with varying degrees of success) everything from history and science to foreign languages. Just because many people watch crap doesn't make all TV crap.