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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: I think this survey would just address only a small percentage of users right?
While I am not a gamer that statement is ridiculous. The games industry is bigger (in dollars) than Hollywood ($10 billion the last I read.) Over in the far east it is a huge cultural phenomenon with professional gamers and is recognized as a sport.
Nintendo sell 240,000+ Wiis every month. There are tens of millions of Playstations out there. It is hard to find a household with children in the States or UK that doesn't have some form of games console.
There are bigger things in life but games are not a small percentage of users.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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An alien costly domain though. Isn't it?
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Paul Watson wrote: It is hard to find a household with children in the States or UK that doesn't have some form of games console.
Not only in the UK and in the States, in the rest of Europe it is the same, and I guess also in the rest of the world.
 Oh my God! It's an alien invasion!!!
Mvg,
Andre Laan
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apparently it is the cost of the game consoles & game titles that has been discouraging factor for Most Indians as most of the popular game consoles are not manufactured locally to cut the cost.
Average salary of an Indian professional is about 15k-20k rupees.
PS3 and Xbox 360 comes for around 30k to 40k, i.e. twice the avg monthly salary.
Another mindset of an avg Indian is the "Value of money", that is, If i spend 20k on a device who all will it benifit. So since kids will be using them (most of the time), a 20k "toy" is not realistic for most parents.
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Gaming is as valid as any other forms of entertainment like TV/movies/novels. It would be nice though to include a "none" option to see how many people here play games. I suppose it really depends on the age make-up because the younger generation who grew up with relatively sophisticated games is probably more likely to enjoy them to some degree well into adulthood.
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P Think of the environment; please don't print this message unless you really need to.
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My only gameconsole is my computer, but I never use it for games,
so shouldn't there be an option for 'No gameconsole'?
I guess I also could have opted for 'Other', and specified 'None', however I cannot change my vote anymore
Mvg,
Andre Laan
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-- Xiangyang Liu --
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walvdlz wrote: specified 'None'
I did the same too as a 'Text Answer'. 
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So you did not even play Microsoft Hearts on your "My Computer"?
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Sega Genesis (smaller model)
Sega CD (bigger model, yes the two look weird together)
Playstation (the first!)
Saturn
Dreamcast
Vectrex (just remembered this, I didn't use it as my poll answer)
My 2600 is long-gone, although I have a few carts and instruction booklets left over (more booklets than carts, strangely enough).
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That's quite a collection you have there.
Steve
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I still have an Atari 5200 which was the first game machine I owned. I started on an Atari 800.
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