The most important thing that violent videogames can do is enhance people’s cognitive skills. Cognitive skills are the human’s ability to process thoughts and memories, this also has to do with …show more content…
This is the most common reason of why people should not ban any type of videogame, especially with how the economy is doing now. According to Ewalt (2013) in 2013 the U.S. spent about $20.5 billion on videogames which means there are a lot of people who already spend on video games. Forbes also says that out of 170 million people in the U.S. that play videogames, that 60% of these people spend money to play these games. This means that if the videogame industry were to be cut in any way the U.S. would be hurt by the loss of profit made from these games and the taxes collected on the same games. Also the Entertainment Software Association (2014) states that the video games industry can grow and will keep growing by about 5 percent until 2015. They also said that in 2012 the sales of video games reached $6.7 billion, all this money has been and will continue to help the United States’ economy to get better. This is why people should not ban any videogames, the economy of the entire country would be very hurt by the hit in loss of sales and taxes