I agree with you that video games can have a positive effect on reading. In my day it was Comic books, and they were deliberately written with standard language and grammer. (BTW this is true for Spanish Language comics too, sometimes the only books that kids read.) But it is also true that cell phones and many video games are not making use of proper language and very little syntax, ( u c what I mean?)
I rate cell phones as the biggest problem, because in HS the kids are districted all the time by their phones.
The internet is both a blessing and a curse, if you can have the world of facts at your fingertips, why take the trouble to commit anything to memory? On the other hand, how can we learn when over half the internet if misleading or outright pursuasion?
I mostly agree with both your points. From my perspective, when I was little, my mom played an old final fantasy on super Nintendo. I wanted to play too and it gave me the motivation to start learning letters and sounding out simple words before kindergarten, since she took the time to teach me. My mom had me reading and adding before K and my dad had me changing oil filters and (trying to) change tires at 8. Lug nuts are hard for a little kid haha
I couldn’t imagine trying to play fallout or elder scrolls or basically anything else without the capability to read though.