After still realizing there is nothing on TV times 100, It’s time for Video Games…

Funny enough, apparently there is a writers strike, and you might have been noticing all the reruns on TV.

Just kidding.

I’m sure you have noticed all the reruns, ever since TV was invented. Well I guess finally everyone has given up and are moving to video games. If you look at it, with the Internet and Video Gaming systems now a days, who really needs to watch TV.

Here is what the professionals have to say…

As the Hollywood writers strike drags toward 2008, the video game industry is hoping a lack of fresh episodes in prime-time could motivate more people to pick up video game controllers instead of remotes — especially with the millions of Wiis and copies of “Call of Duty 4″ under Christmas trees this holiday season.

“If you’re a fan of network programming, maybe seeing another repeat of ‘Pushing Daisies’ or ‘Cold Case’ will inspire you to finish that level of ‘Ratchet and Clank Future’ instead,” suggests Joseph Olin, president of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.

Because game publishers rely almost completely on nonunion talent to create video games, the Writers Guild of America walkout, now in its eighth week, hasn’t been an issue for the gaming industry. Only a handful of game writers are represented by the WGA, and they fall outside of the jurisdiction of the current strike.

“There’s a much better relationship between game developers and publishers than there appears to be in terms of all the polemics between the writers, producers and studios,” says Olin.

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Nielsen Media Research doesn’t yet count how many people play video games across multiple platforms in the same way they calculate TV viewership, but research from the NPD Group, which measures gaming industry sales, says people are buying more gaming software and hardware than ever before.

Sales of consoles, games and accessories hit $2.63 billion in November, up 52 percent from last year. Sales of games alone hit $1.3 billion in November, up 62 percent from last year, according to NPD.

Strike or no strike, the gaming industry is welcoming everyone.

“My hope is that people who are used to watching new programming on TV discover gaming as an entertainment alternative,” says Connors. “Obviously, it will have to be a pretty prolonged strike for that to happen, but I think it’s a definite possibility.”

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