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For Kids, It's Games Over Music

Anne Collier
For Kids, It's Games Over Music

A new study by market researcher NPD Group found that 85% of children aged 2-14 use game consoles, 82% of 2-to-5-year-olds play games on one or more devices, and 60% use digital music players, Gamasutra reports.

 

NPD's "Kids & Digital Content III" report, which surveyed more than 3,500 kids who use electronic devices, also found that a third of 2-to-14-year-olds watch videos on laptops or other electronic devices, and 22% download ringtones on their cellphones. You can read more about the NPD report at Gamespy.

 

Meanwhile, in a keynote speech at CES, Mike Griffith, CEO of Guitar Hero maker Activision, "proclaimed that video games are 'poised to eclipse all other forms of entertainment in the decade ahead'," the BBC reports. "He quoted US market statistics which showed that between 2003 and 2007 sales of movie tickets fell by 6%; the number of hours of TV watched dropped by 6%, sales of recorded music slumped 12% and purchases of DVDs remained flat.

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