Some kids teach themselves how to play piano when they’re 2 years old, some learn to draw incredibly detailed sketches or paintings, and a lot of people interpret this as a wonderful development of natural talents.

Now a serious question is asked by some of the industry’s biggest authorities are put forth, is there really a period in a young gamer’s life where they will be able to learn gaming skills and techniques as they do with language?

At Kotaku.com, it says “It doesn’t preclude the learning of languages, or the innate hand-eye coordination specific to video games, later in life, but it may explain why younger kids who grow up using controller as second nature will, depending on the game, always whip the ass of an adult who learned on that stupid Colecovision phone-looking thing.”; Science has already proved it that when a child reaches a certain age, the brain makes sure that it cuts off some controls so that the child can focus his or her mastery on a certain skill of field. It may be music or art, or even, gaming. Yup, early exposure to something and repeatedly doing it not only develops and strengthens the platform of a young aspiring field expert, but it almost certainly seals the deal.

From one of the first article (Gamecritics.com), it says “… I’m a seasoned videogame player. I’ve won competitions. Is there just something inherent in the way the teenage brain works that makes them better at certain kinds of games… Much to my surprise, he really struggled with the controls and barely qualified as a ‘recruit.’ This was interesting. He had played Halo on the PC several years ago, but he had no appreciable experience with dual-analog first-person shooters”. Sadly, it just does not have something to do with skills and talents, but t does have something to do with one’s age.

Not only does ageing make your response time longer than you might have liked, it actually makes you less likely to master a new technique as easily as you would have done a few years back. The brain has already reached the stage where it can only focus on the normal daily tasks that you are accustomed to.

“I’m not saying older people can’t master new gameplay styles, but rather that there might be a developmental cutoff after which achieving such mastery becomes much harder.” How bitter it may seem, this is absolutely true. A very good example to the bitterness of the effects of ageing is to one’s gaming career, is the response time increase when a certain gamer reaches 20. The speed is almost reduced to a staggering half percent, and the same goes to learning gaming skills. The brain is forced to put the new technique into a series of logical calculations, as compared to pure natural instincts that younger folks absolutely do not lack.

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