Gaming When We're 64

Via Kotaku, a post on the Aeropause site about gaming as we get older. Richard has a great 'get off my lawn you damn kids' rant, and some insightful commentary on the problems we'll face as we get up there. From the article: "The other issue older gamers will face is the ever increasing difficulty of games. Games have come a long way since the simplicity of the A and B buttons. Today's controllers are becoming more and more complicated and require greater dexterity to master. While this is no problem for gamers right now, as we get older and lose some of our dexterity we will need to come up with ways to simplify the gameplay or the controller."

Re:wrong!

[Shaper_pmp]

Sorry, just to be clear: you're trying to claim that "12.5%[1] of all Americans" is a small number?

According to to US population clock [census.gov] and some basic maths, that means around 37437999 people are gamers of 50+ years old.

Which part of 37-and-a-half million implies "older folks don't play games"? Is it the part that's larger than the population of Canada [cia.gov], or the part that's seven times the population of Finland [cia.gov]?

So congrats on being great and finding fault but said fault was irrelevant. You do earn an A+ for arrogance and being an ass (I would call it trolling) with your "Why do I even bother with Games postings..." comment, however. Thanks!

Nice. Except that by jumping straight in and posting an unsubstantiated opinion, helpfully providing supporting evidence that completely negated your point, taking the time to dig up a web link but not even bothering with the simple mental maths required to realise that 12.5% of the population of a country might not actually be "fairly small", and your sarky and offensive response to a mildly-dismissive posting... well, I'd say you've more or less proved his point for him.

Good work.

[1] 25% of 50%