Sony’s Concord might be the biggest entertainment failure of all time, so why wasn’t it news?
I don’t see how vid o games are any harder to report on because their interactivity is somehow “untransferable”. Sports get reported on all the time.
Excluding things like yelling, doing the wave, or hitting noise sticks together, for the fans, sports are a passive experience. The fans have no real way to interact with a sport to determine a game’s outcome. A person playing a soccer video game has control of one of the teams and their inputs determine how well that team does.
A news organization can play a clip of a soccer game and the experience is not that different than watching the game live. It’s not even that different from being at a stadium, besides being quieter.
If a news organization played a clip of someone playing a soccer video game they would run into a problem. While the graphics might be impressive, the interactive nature of the video game is completely lost on the viewer. The news viewers seeing that clip aren’t experiencing controlling a soccer team. edit: The experience would not even be that different from watching a clip of a real soccer game.
Video games have to be experienced firsthand. People who have never played video games or barely played video games probably aren’t going to get it when shown a secondhand account.
