Gaming Statistics

[tay823]

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1. Sixty-five percent of American households play computer or video games. Considering there are approximately 114,825,428 households as of 2010, that's a huge number of American Gamers.


2. The average game player is 35 years old and has been playing games for 13 years. This statistic crushes the idea that gamers are all hormonal highschoolers.


3. Forty percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (33 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (18 percent).


4. Growth - From 2003 to 2006, the entertainment software industry's annual growth rate exceeded 17 percent. Over the same period, the entire U.S. economy grew at a less than 4% rate. In tough times, gamers will game.


5. On average, nine games were sold every second of every day in 2007. Gaming is becoming a more popular and more mainstream hobby.


6. Of those who play games online, 56% are male and 44% are female.


7. The average adult woman plays games 7.4 hours per week. The average adult man plays 7.6 hours per week. Though males spend more time playing than do females, the gender/time gap has narrowed significantly. Whereas in 2003, males spent an average of 18 more minutes a day playing games than did their female counterparts. In 2004 they spent only six minutes more each day doing so. Females spend an average of two hours more per week playing games now then they did a year ago.

[jango]

interesting stats .. nice to know we're not too freakish - well, er, kinda ..

[Subb]

thanks for sharing, that was an intersting read

[Diligence109]

this is super interesting... I wouldn't have guessed that there were that many "older" gamers in the US at all! I'm gonna be less shameful about my association with games, now, I think... maybe... a little... *crawls back into hermit dork cave*

+rep

[Muffincat]

Yay female gamers <3 And this was quite interesting; thanks for sharing

[Kenoi]

quite interesting, thanks for sharing. number 5 was the most used one. even after 07.
I mean c'mon now, would you keep a piece of history (the games, the console -- ps2, xbox, gamecube) or sacrifice it for the newer stuff? - (360, ps3, wii)

[LiNuX]

Good read. I have a feeling female gamers will take over the numbers one day in the future.

[tay823]

I'm happy girls can play games without much ridicule any more. I've only had it a few times (modern warfare 2) but I don't think they even knew I was a girl, just hatin because I dropped that nuuuuuuke ^_^

[Dess]

Wewt for girl gamers!!! lol... They only really pick on me when I play GoW2... but they shut up when they meet ma chainsaw....

Interesting read Tay...

[jango]

They only really pick on me when I play GoW2... but they shut up when they meet ma chainsaw....

lmao .. the subtle approach always works! Nice lol