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Old stereotypes die hard. Picture a video-game player and you will likely imagine a teenage boy, by himself, compulsively hammer
Old stereotypes die hard. Picture a video-game player and you will likely imagine a teenage boy, by himself, compulsively hammer
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2017-12-11
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Old stereotypes die hard. Picture a video-game player and you will likely imagine a teenage boy, by himself, compulsively hammering away at a game involving rayguns and aliens that splatter when blasted. Ten years ago that might have borne some relation to reality. But today a gamer is as likely to be a middle-aged commuter playing "Angry Birds" on her smartphone. In America, the biggest market, the average game-player is 37 years old. Two-fifths are female.
Over the past ten years the video-game industry has grown from a small business to a huge, mainstream one. With global sales of $56 billion in 2010, it is more than twice the size of the recorded-music industry. Despite the downturn, it is growing by almost 9% a year.
Is this success due to luck or skill? The answer matters, because the rest of the entertainment industry has tended to treat gaming as being a lucky beneficiary of broader technological changes. Video gaming, unlike music, film or television, had the luck to be born digital. In fact, there is plenty for old media to learn.
Video games have certainly been swept along by two forces: demography and technology. The first gaming generation—the children of the 1970s and early 1980s—is now over 30. Many still love gaming, and can afford to spend far more on it now. Meanwhile rapid improvements in computing power have allowed game designers to offer experiences that are now often more cinematic than the cinema.
But even granted this good fortune, the game-makers have been clever. They have reached out to new customers with new methods. They have branched out into education, corporate training and even warfare, and have embraced digital downloads and mobile devices with enthusiasm. Though big-budget games are still popular, much of the growth now comes from "casual" games that are simple, cheap and playable in short bursts on mobile phones or in web browsers.
The industry has excelled in a particular area—pricing. In an era when people are disinclined to pay for content on the web, games publishers were quick to develop "freemium" models, where you rely on non-paying customers to build an audience and then extract cash only from a fanatical few.
As gaming comes to be seen as just another medium, its
tech-sawy approach
could provide a welcome shot in the arm for existing media groups.
One special factor of the success of video games is that
选项
A、demography.
B、flexible pricing.
C、digital technology.
D、cinematic design.
答案
B
解析
推断题。根据题干关键词special factor定位到第六段。开头提到The industry has excelled in a particular area—pricing,题干是对原文的同义复现。四个选项都是造成电子游戏行业成功 的原因,但特殊的因素之一就是pricing了,这是音乐、电影和电视等传统媒体尤其需要学习 的。根据下文解释也可知道正确答案为B项“灵活的定价”。
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考研英语一
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