SigEx Ventures :"You may say I'm a dreamer"by Ana Maria Ciobanu

Sony announced it's quarterly profit more than trebled after spectacular sales on digital cameras. Nintendo outsold Sony's PS3 but the Cyber-shot digital cameras sold like hot bread. We all know Sony has entered a long battle with Nintendo and Microsoft. This month they cut the price of PS3 by $100 but the console is still way more expensive than the Wii . All the lately talk about video game addiction made me wondered how many PS3 game addicts exist. Online games are the worst king in this terrible domain- the experts say. A strange thing that kept my attention was an article with a big flashy title on the PS3.qj.net website which said : "Addiction experts say video games NOT an addiction". The article begins by saying : "Gamers need not worry about their favorite video games becoming crime and misbehavior scapegoats". Isn't it a bit strange PS3 needs to put out these clarifications? Personally I didn't think PS3 in particular can get addictive, but after reading this disclaimer article I started to wonder. It sounds like "Keep buying PS3 boys and girls, it won't hurt you". Several doctors and scientists make assumptions that are cut out of the context and placed in the article. Game addiction is something very serious though, it killed and it will continue to kill if we don't look at things rationally. "Working with this problem is no different than working with alcoholic patients. The same denial, the same rationalization, the same inability to give it up," Dr. Thomas Allen of the Osler Medical Center said. I'm sure all the game creators know how bad the games are for children and not only. I'm sure they all know the violence in the games is a very important cause of aggressive behavior in children and they've all heard about recent studies that show gaming can provoke epileptic seizures. But are they doing something to stop this? I get the feeling Sony's PlayStation doesn't really care at the moment about these problems but about how to out stand Nintendo again. On the other hand Nintendo seems to care about gamers and anticipate all the upcoming problems by launching different types of games and consoles, games that enable you to exercise, jump, dance, hula hoop. What parent would worry about his kid becoming addicted to aerobics or yoga? I'll remain optimistic and say it's just a matter of time till the big game producers will realize how much harm their causing and put the money beside a little and our health one step forward.

by Ana Maria Ciobanu for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

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