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> Violence sells games The best-selling game of all time is Minecraft. Some other titles in the top 10 are Tetris, Wii Sports, Mario Kart etc. [0] > The most
by alpaca128 3y ago
> Violence sells games
The best-selling game of all time is Minecraft. Some other titles in the top 10 are Tetris, Wii Sports, Mario Kart etc. [0]
> The most popular video game franchise is Call of Duty
Actually it's in fourth place after Mario, Tetris and Pokemon [1]
> Gentile says we don't know whether games turn people into murderers, because the sample size is just too small
We know crime rates have consistently been in decline since 1990 or so, shortly before Doom was released. Is the population of the US a sufficiently large sample size?
Edit: turns out this article is from 2013. Well, it's not getting any more correct.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...