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Re:US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay... by mikepurvis on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:15PM (#23193871)
Girlfriend Reviews said of Alyx "now we are all backseat gamers", regarding the imbalance of people watching the game be played on Twitch vs actually playing it themselves:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m67wYSTgvus

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Re:US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay... by duxup on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:18PM (#23193902)
I think the gaming world is a lot more fractured than it used to be. Titles that are still big names, I don't think command the % of gamer eyeballs as they used to, or at least not as much.

Much like music, movies, pretty much all media.

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