@TBone Tony

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I think a major difference this time around is that all of the late night comedians were having little "GTA" bits. They won't touch an issue unless it has enough saturation for the majority of an audience to get the reference.

I'm just glad it's all over..............until GTA V comes out,like Dennis said.

Last year’s Halo 3 launch may have held the pre-GTA IV sales record, but didn’t come close in terms of cultural impact.

It didn't come close in first day sales either - according to R* they made $310 million on the first day. Halo 3 racked up an impressive $170 million.

The record has not just been broken - it has been SHATTERED! :)

@CommiePuddin
True enough. I meant any of the gamers on here all the time.

Obviously, there's always the extremists of any group, as well as the people with no ability to have a rational discussion (Gordon Ramsey from Hell's Kitchen, for example) without swearing. But I find that most of the people here are better informed than your average man, and I know that I could easily demolish the man in a 'debate', no matter which side the moderator swung for.

If anyone is to go onto a debate, it is important to know that you, as a gamer, are talking to people who have not played videogames in the audience,

These are the people who you are trying to believe in what you are saying.

But the easiest way to lose them is to swear or even point out a few of your opponents bad habbits...like lying on FOXNews and things like that.

It is more better to try and point out the good things in games like GTA, and even mention many of the E rated games and also T rated games, as well as pointing at all of the research out there that the US crime rate has NOT climbed since the early 90s, and that the school shootings have sometimes been caused by other more complicated incidents other than just someone playing Violent Videogames.

Also note that there are so many adults who do love to play Videogames, and also mention everything from the ESRB ratings and also how an AO rating means DEAD MARKET and letting people know about how hard it is to make a Commercial Videogame and that is the need to sell copies so all that hard work would pay off.

Well, that is how I would do it in a debate,

also comment on your own personal life and how the negative Gamer steriotype is not an accurate reflection of yourself

Like for me, I was able to surprize a woman last week when I told her that I was a Gamer and also loved Japanese Anime cartoons even as an adult, yet I also love to play Sports and I used to play allot of school sports when I was younger as well as lots of Videogames during my younger years,

And she tused to think that people who play Videogames don't even play sports,

I think it is better to handle this at a Grass Roots level and try to talk to people in everyday life and when the discussion comes to videogames, you could talk to them about your own experience and how you think about what goes on about Videogames when they are being bashed in the mainstream media,

it would all be a good practice for something important like a debate on Violent Videogames, or any other missconception of Videogames that may prop up in the future.

Anyone else could add to my comment???

@Austin Lewis

As long as JT gets put down hard, we're all good.

@Austin Lewis

Alright, Yahoo just broke it. First week sales are at $500 million. First day sales are not mentioned, but if we estimate by the numbers Halo put out (170 to 300) we come up with... $283 million first day, percentage-wise. Not bad. I'm shocked.

@Austin Lewis

JT vs. any gamer would be a great victory for videogamers everywhere.

Unless their one of those Halo idiots that spray obscenities faster than a minigun