[kyriefh]

gaming studios are full of people who are squarely in the target market for the product they're developing. this has downsides but in many ways is a huge edge, so in a sense ageism seems more justifiable in games than elsewhere as a close proxy for audience understanding

[captaincaveman]

Most people working on games have little input to the game dynamics, but sure have a bias for younger people because they can 'relate' to the market, and nothing to do with being more exploitable!

[shzhdbi09gv8ioi]

I believe the reason gaming studios prefer younger employees has more to do with salaries than anything else.

Game dev salaries seem to be really bad compared to the rest of the industry, but so hyped and "cool" that younger people keep fighting over those jobs.

I turned down a job at machine games because of really mediocre compensation compared to what I had before, working at a rather unknown startup.

[meheleventyone]

The average age of a 'gamer' is actually a lot higher than you might think. 35-44 according to this:

https://venturebeat.com/business/esa-ceo-64-of-u-s-adults-ar...

[johnday]

That's older than the median age of a human being. Granted, people don't tend to play games before the age of about 7, but that still seems suspect.

[rightbyte]

The measure should be weighted by hours played or dollars spent or something.

[jncfhnb]

Seems like some definitions need to be clarified here

[pasquinelli]

i should make it a point to play games made by old people-- i'd probably like them more.

[thomastjeffery]

That sounds like a great reason to hire more older adults. After all, that's always been one of the most difficult groups to market games to.

[lowbloodsugar]

Younger gamers have time. Older gamers have money.

[nox101]

that's an interesting idea. are games special? does this same idea apply to movies?