Analysts Foresee Another Banner Year For Videogame Industry

Analysts observing the videogame industry forsee 2008 being another blockbuster year in sales. Sales during the month of February were considerably up, according to the NPD group. Early in the year is historically a very slow time in the game sales calendar, making the 34% jump for the month highly significant. Grand Theft Auto IV is likely to be an engine for sales throughout the year: "The game, which will be available on the Xbox 360 and Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3, is expected to boost sales of both consoles. Pre-orders have been better than expected, according to its publisher, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Morgan, expects the game to sell about 9 million units during the company's fiscal year, which ends in October. Roughly 6 million of this, he added, will be to Xbox 360 owners."

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[pandrijeczko]

*IF* kids suffer behavioural problems because of (so-called) "violent video games", then the blame for that can be laid at the feet of those irresponsible parents who use video games consoles and/or PCs as electronic baby-sitters in order to relinquish their own duties of spending quality time with their kids.

A kid that comes from a loving home built around caring parents who provide positive emotional reinforcement to counteract any negative emotions experienced by the kid will simply end up being a well-balanced individual that is entirely capable of separating fact from fiction.

Unfortunately, your entire shallow viewpoint can only be derived from our fearmongering media who's only goal is to increase the viewing figures and sell more newspapers. The fact is, if the news was filled with stories about the majority of well-behaved, sensible kids who don't binge-drink and don't have a criminal record, it would be pretty boring stuff and nobody would be in the slightest bit interested.

If you are one of these "liberal lefties" that blames every problem on some external factor with a total denial of any personal responsibility and a demand that the authorities create some false, protective, nanny-state cocoon around you, then that is your choice. However, in such a case, can I thus suggest that you and any like-but-weak-minded individuals go find an uninhabited island somewhere, emigrate to it, elect your own set of dictatorial politicians to govern you as you wish, and leave those of us who to take personal responsibility for ourselves behind?

I really get sick-and-tired of the minority of lilly-livered idiots like you who believe it is their task in life to inflict their personality disorders upon the rest of us by imposing more stupid laws and an ever-increasing blame-culture on me and people like me.

And as for the dribbling, the only dribbling going on around here is the accumulation of spittle in the corner of your mouth as a result of your manic ranting...