Games and consoles are made to be as grabbing as possible, nowadays. To my understanding, it’s the way the industry works.
I had a SEGA Game Gear and a Mega Drive, with a few games, and played on it as much as I could but back then I remember I would out of the blue get bored and turn off the game. Either because there was a save point or the entire game up to that point was easy to memorize.
Nowadays, on modern games, I don’t see that. It’s just another level, another enemy, another boss, another whatever. The games are engineered to lock the player in. And children are especially vulnerable to this.
I gifted my kids one of those retro emulation consoles and sometimes play with them. There are 20.000 ROMs in that thing and they get bored at some point and drop it. The usual “complaints” are that the games are too hard or that they had enough.
I’m not saying your take is wrong but your brother is neither.
Games and consoles are made to be as grabbing as possible, nowadays. To my understanding, it’s the way the industry works.
I had a SEGA Game Gear and a Mega Drive, with a few games, and played on it as much as I could but back then I remember I would out of the blue get bored and turn off the game. Either because there was a save point or the entire game up to that point was easy to memorize.
Nowadays, on modern games, I don’t see that. It’s just another level, another enemy, another boss, another whatever. The games are engineered to lock the player in. And children are especially vulnerable to this.
I gifted my kids one of those retro emulation consoles and sometimes play with them. There are 20.000 ROMs in that thing and they get bored at some point and drop it. The usual “complaints” are that the games are too hard or that they had enough.
I’m not saying your take is wrong but your brother is neither.