Damn_Underscore posted...
Old people are too stubborn to try video games, generally speaking. I think things will change through the generations though
It's not really that. If you actually think about it, most people under the age of 60 at this point grew up with some level of exposure to video games (either home consoles like the Atari 2600 or the arcade boom of the 70s). And if you include people who were in their teens during that period you can push the age limit up to somewhere around 70 year olds today.
If anything, the issue is that a lot of people
stop
playing video games as they get older. Either because they think they've grown out of them (or
should
have grown out of them), or because they have no free time while working and raising a family, or just because they slowly lose interest as they become interested in other things. So a lot of older people have no idea of what video games
are
other than their vague memories of Pac-Man and Tetris, or whatever app store puzzle games they have on their phone.
I don't think we're going to be living in some sort of gamer utopia 20/30/40+ years from now. If anything, I kind of feel like we've already experienced peak gaming and it's all downhill from here as kids who grew up on mobile games, Roblox, and Fortnite become the adults of tomorrow.
30 years from now, we'll probably have kids complaining about how clueless and out of touch all the old adults in Congress are, because they all think gaming is still PS2's and Xboxes and Wii's, and know nothing about the 4D holo-AR neurochip virtua-brainwave games of the present day. Get with it grandpa!
Well, either that, or 30 years from now we'll have kids shanking each other over canned food and clean water, because the Resource Wars will have begun.