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Watching games may soon be more popular than playing them thanks to esports

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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SAN FRANCISCO — More people watch football on TV than play it. The same may be true for video games one day.

That may sound ludicrous to people who believe that playing a game is a lot more fun than watching somebody else do it, but that’s the prediction from a panel of esports advocates in a session at Casual Connect, a large conference on gaming in San Francisco.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.