To most americans, the world might as well just be the USA. You can't use that kind of logic with them, they'll just ignore you and go "lalalalalal I don't see it so it can't be true."
I can tell you Billy's father is not going to go and buy himself his own rig, which he must maintain and service regularly to keep it up to date. He would probably rather play FIFA or Tekken with 14 year old Billy than go and play on EA Battlefield servers with a bunch of nameless late teens. Oh, and 17 year old FrozenLiquid convinced his parents to buy him a $5000 MacBook pro. Booyakasha.FrozenLiquid
But the question remains, who's the one primarily gaming on it? The kid or the father? I myself know very few 14 year olds with fathers that even bother to care about gaming. They just yell at their kids for wasting their time on it and not doing anything productive. Your assertion that the average PC gamer is younger than the average console gamer is probably true when you include things like kiddie games, the Sims and what not, but amongst the games that a site such as gamespot would even bother reviewing, I have a really, really hard time believing you that the average age of a consolite is higher.
(also, $5000 for a macbook pro? My god, I don't think I received that much money's worth of non-essential things in my entire childhood from my parents)
There are more Xboxers on this forum than PC gamers, therefore there are more people that have been exposed to Kotor than System Shock 2. To many people here, bioshock was a totally "new" experience, so they never complained about it.
They are by far the most casual and on average youngest gaming crowd who want simple games, hence why PC games suffer so much when they share their games with 360, because devs try and appeal to the Xbox crowd. Talk about ignorance (and arrogance). Console gamers aren't on average younger than PC gamers. It's the other way around. Apart from the MMO crowd, a lot of the PC gaming audience is just as young if not younger than the PC gaming crowd. And it's not young people that want the whole pick-up-and-play experience. Older people want it too. Think about it.
Depends what segment of the gamer market you are talking about. Please, try and convince me that little 14 year old billy is going to get his parents to shell out an extra 300-400 dollars for a gaming PC (this is because his parents would no doubt be buying it pre-built, which obviously overcharges for...everything) rather than 250 or 300 or so for a wii or 360.
They are by far the most casual and on average youngest gaming crowd who want simple games, hence why PC games suffer so much when they share their games with 360, because devs try and appeal to the Xbox crowd.
Before someone else says it. No, the wii is. The difference though is that the Xbox is actually stealing attention from third party devs originally on the PC, whereas Nintendo's (first party) game studios have always been phenomenal all on their own. I mean really, the Xbox is just a stripped down, dumbed down PC it's not surprising that it doesn't have anything more than stripped down, dumbed down PC games.
The wii has its own little corner of the gaming market on lock. The Xbox on the other hand cannabalizes truly hardcore PC franchises then craps out less engrossing games. Not that it matters, in 15 years the gap between a PC and a console will probably just be whether or not you can or cannot plug in something not branded by Microsoft or Sony.
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