Editorial: Televised Video Games Are Going to Be Better than Televised Sports

Published: July 30, 2007, 10:22 am

Tags: editorials, gamer life, games industry, cbs, televised video games, tv, video games on television, world series video games

At first, the reactions were grim. The public didn’t quite seem ready. And even after the thought set in, it’s still not going well. But why are people freaking out? Why do people believe this to be the end of television, or even the lowest common denominator. That author of the latter editorial I linked to wrote, “I watch both golf and poker on TV with great fervor. But video games? As sport?” Yes, and as a matter of fact, this is exactly my point: People watch Poker on television. People have even watched it enough in the past few years so that when you’re flipping through the channels on a random Saturday afternoon, you’ll come across a poker match being televised at 5:00 on a random Sunday. The game, which has almost nothing to do with your physical condition, has been accepted as sport, and fans gather around to see who wins, pushing the ratings of the shows up to give them primetime time slots on Fox Sports. It’s a niche market,

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