Argument 147
The following appeared in an editorial in a business magazine.
'Although the sales of Whirlwind video games have declined over the past two years, a recent survey of video-game players suggests that this sales trend is about to be reversed. The survey asked video-game players what features they thought were most important in a video game. According to the survey, players prefer games that provide lifelike graphics, which require the most up-to-date computers. Whirlwind has just introduced several such games with an extensive advertising campaign directed at people 10 to 25 years old, the age-group most likely to play video games. It follows, then, that the sales of Whirlwind video games are likely to increase dramatically in the next few months.'
在这个题目中,虽然题目没有明确讲出导致销售量下降的原因, 但是题目讲开发新的游戏会使这一趋势扭转,因此我是否可以根据这推知作者认为以前的销售下降是由于游戏的画面质量不够吸引玩家,而不是公司的运行不良所造成的。