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58.9% Americans Don't Own a Console Almost 150 million people without a single gaming machine	By Filip Truta, Games Editor 6th of March 2007, 15:27 GMT Adjust text size:


Recent Nielsen reports show that 41.1% of American households have at least one gaming machine under one form or another and the remaining 58.9% don't. How come? The world is full of consoles, some you can plug into a TV set, some you can even carry in your pocket. Most of them are very expensive, like the PS3 or the Xbox 360, but there are some that come at a pretty low price as well and the fact that they are cheap doesn't mean they are bad. Take the Wii for instance. Although it doesn't have the same power as Microsoft's 360 or Sony's Goliath, the PS3, it is the most popular of all, introducing the all-new motion-sensitive control that revolutionized the world of games and...it is the cheapest of the lot-around $250 at the present time. Now, tell me that 58.9% Americans can't afford this. The thing is that many just aren't interested in games. What? Where does it say that everyone has to play video games? Some people literally work 24/7 and don't have the necessary time to eat, so playing a video game would be out of the question. And even when these people get some time off, they rush to the Bahamas, away from the traffic and the computer, so again, games are out of the question. Still, not the whole lot of 58.9% of people can be fitted into this category. Some are just too damned cheap to do anything else than feed themselves and some don't even have the slightest clue about how much fun playing video games is. Especially on the Wii. Anyway, these are just facts and they shouldn't bother anyone. The truth is that every person has the right to choose what to do with their life, even if it means ruling out video games.

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