Ready for an incredibly uncomfortable 3:39 of financial news? This schizophrenic clip from Fox Business starts off with a mention of Vice President Joe Bidenās meeting with video game industry representatives today and, from there, seems like itās supposed to be a straightforward rundown of how sales trends are shaking out. But the numbers and stock movements get shoved to the backseat as bumbling reporter Dennis Neal repeatedly tries to get Brean Capital director of research Todd Mitchell to make linkages to video game violence.
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Take-Two has the urban game where it doesnāt even have the coverage of āoh, gee, itās warfareā like a World War II video game. Itās actually people shooting people in the streets.
Heās talking about Grand Theft Auto, of course. āDoesnāt even have the coverage of āoh, gee, itās warfare.'ā Why, Dennis, are you suggesting that video games need to justify their content?
Standing outside a Gamestop on Manhattanās Upper East Side, Mitchell gamely tries to provide broader, less hyperbolic context to the stock market. But thereās that reporter again, jamming the words āviolentā and āviolenceā into every other sentence he utters. And, so clearly, so despereately hoping that Mr. Mitchell would please please follow suit. Pretty please?
Thankfully, Mitchell doesnāt take the bait, talks about games as a larger landscape and re-focuses on the actual cause of gun violence. Yāknow, guns
Random fact: Kotaku bossman Stephen Totilo brought a Game Boy Advance in that very Gamestop. Thank goodness he turned out okay. For the most part.
