Health games could aid schools
Active games a good things, says conference
The 'health' video games market could now be worth over 2 billion USD worldwide, says the fifth annual Games for Health Conference in Boston. The conference says the genre will only get bigger, too, while more schools could make use of their innovations.
"Healthcare is 18 percent of the GDP of the United States and so games for health is probably the largest sector of activity in the serious games field long-term," Games for Health Project co-founder Ben Sawyer told Reuters.
"If you add up the 18 month sales of Wii Fit and the sales of EA Sports Active, Konami's Dance Dance Revolution and other healthy games, the worldwide retail numbers are over 2 billion USD."
Meanwhile, speaking at the conference, Dr. Michael Levine says that healthy games could aid healthcare education in schools, with the White House urged to back research into the matter.
More soon.
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