Nature argument for Video Games

I was playing on an Xbox 360 game with some friends from my dorm and I noticed a strange phenomenon. I was with two people who were new to the game we were playing and one of them caught on right away and the other had a very difficult time figuring it out.This made me wonder why this could be.

I found an article online that showed that researchers could determine video game aptitude by measuring activity in the basil ganglia. Someone with a lot of activity in this region of their brain would be able to pick up video games faster than others. This could be an explanation to why one of my friends could barely figure out the controls while the other learned quickly.