Pros And Cons Of Online Sports

Around the world more than 1.2 billion people play video games of those 700 million play online games, as of 2013. Compare that the 3.8 million people who play some sort of organized sport. These numbers show that more and more people are playing video games, in this day and age where people are more connected than ever before it is only a matter of time until video games are considered a sport. Now I am not comparing video games to football or baseball, which are highly physical orientated sports, what I am saying is that video games can be a mental and strategic sport. When playing online video games on a team vs. team basis without some sort of strategy you will lose. Same as any other sport that exists, if your team does not work together and does not play by a strategy you will lose. A very common misconception is that videogames make people lazy, in some cases this may be true, however when football and baseball became professional sports people had similar worries about the players of these games, that they were throwing away their lives to play a game. For some people playing sports is not an option, whether …show more content…
This definition can easily be applied to not only sports but also videogames. When playing on a professional level you have to work together as a well-oiled, machine you have to have great teamwork, you have to have strategies in order to win, you have to have a skill set that you can only develop over countless hours of practicing, and you have to be completely dedicated. These are things that professional sports and pro gaming have in common, whether people want to admit it or not, videogames are becoming more popular than ever before so much so that many people believe that videogames should become a sport and I