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Wee, Spider-Man 2 time. The game is pretty fun so far as well. Before I started that last night though, I played through DOOM 1 and 2 co-op with some friends. Both still are a lot of fun. I get the feeling I will eventually end up with DOOM 3 on PC as well as Xbox, just so I can play it co-op on the Xbox.
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We finally had a summer like day here after all that rain, 82 degrees and no wind. About time too, 17 days into July.
Movie: It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.
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What do you guys think? Especially the quote The guys bitching about this new trend are inching up on 35 years old, and they grew up on old-school gameplay. They're a very vocal bunch, but they're just not the market anymore.
This is obviously the developers and publishers trying to make their games unique and cash in with the suburbanites. It's not as if a rap soundtrack is going to change the gameplay, is it?
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The music industry caters to the teen market and this shows on the charts with all the Christina Aguilera, Avril Lavigne and whatever hip hop flavour of the week. Retail stores even follow this with loud music playing and posters of Evanesence all over the walls. It is definitely not an environment suited to anyone the age of 30 or over.
The problem however is that this demographic is not anywhere near as lucrative as the aged 45+ segment or even the aged 30+ segment. And while the 16 to 29 market makes money, it also requires a lot more money to reach them than what it would take to reach the other target segments. The reason why the music industry, and now also the video game industry, keeps focusing on younger people is because of prestige. This is what the media focuses on with Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood - what young people are doing and where they are. Profit becomes secondary to being cool.
The same can be said about the SUV market. SUVs are the least profitable cars but every manufacturer has one out there. Cadillac has even admitted that they introduced the Escalade because everyone else is doing it and the media focus has been on the SUV market.