By StephenTotilo Could Video Games Ruin Toys?
There are many ways in which we can measure the effect of video games on society — for example, exploring whether they cause crimes — so through my eyes as a video game reporter, I see Toy Fair as another place to see whether video games might be ruining a pretty nice thing. There I was walking down an aisle of people selling sleds and noticing that very few people were in it. This was sad, I thought, and then I wondered: did video games cause this, too? There aren't any kids at Toy Fair. They'd probably be best to judge whether video games are 100% cooler than toys these days, or just 75% more fun. The people walking down a few miles of rows of new toys are adults — reporters like me and lots of people in charge of stores that sell toys. What they've got to choose from include a lot of video game toys. Really, everywhere I looked, I saw Super Mario.
At Toy Fair I was feeling bad for toys. Hey, if not for video games, I wouldn't have been there. I felt I owed it toys to walk down the sled aisles, maybe power-walk through the stuffed animal ones. I see how toy people are trying to cope. Some are trying to get in on the new tech of video games and gadgets, like the people who made a board game that has room on the board for an iPad. One radio-control-vehicle toy company jumped on the Medal of Honor license, of all things.
Around many corners, though, there were the likes of Activision's Skylanders, which are billed as an amalgamation of toy and video game… the Toys R Us president was at an event Friday talking about how excited he was for these "interaction figures." (Sorry, all of you boring action figures out there... your time's up!)
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Could Video Games Ruin Toys?
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