{"id":338,"date":"2006-01-06T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2006-01-06T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T14:52:00","slug":"cost-of-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/06\/cost-of-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/issue\/26\/29\">This article<\/a> over at The Escapist is an interesting look at why the game industry is struggling to have a more mainstream appeal.  However, although a lot of what is contained in the piece is well thought through, it doesn&#8217;t take into account the much more variable nature of people&#8217;s tastes when it comes to interactive media.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you have a family of four sitting and watching the TV or a DVD, even if one of them doesn&#8217;t fancy watching what&#8217;s on the likelihood is that they will still do so because of its passive nature.  If the DVD player also played games, the chances of all four people wanting to play a game at the same time are pretty small and even smaller if their gaming tastes are very different from each other.  So, unless a new breed of games are created that will appeal to father, mother, son and daughter and offer four-player gameplay, how realistic is mainstream gaming going to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article over at The Escapist is an interesting look at why the game industry is struggling to have a more mainstream appeal. However, although a lot of what is contained in the piece is well thought through, it doesn&#8217;t take into account the much more variable nature of people&#8217;s tastes when it comes to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/06\/cost-of-gaming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cost of Gaming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}