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I grew up with video games and believed it would be a young people’s thing forever.

But now when I talk to young people, many of them don’t play or even know many games, and would rather just watch Netflix or YouTube.

However friends of my own age still play games.

So maybe video games isn’t actually a thing for young people, but simply a thing for people who were born in the 80-90s.

Just like rock’n’roll music. We used to think it was evergreen music for teens… But overtime realized it was simply for people born in the 40s-50s. And now it’s an old people’s thing.



If this was the case, the games industry wouldn't have grown as much as it did in the last 10-15 years.


My hypothesis are/is that many people don't see mobile gaming as gaming and that people lie.




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