Hard data on adult video game players
The fantastic Pew Internet Life research series has a new installment up, this one a set of preliminary data on adult players of video games. Lots of crunch stats here:
Adults and Video Games
Younger generations tend to dominate the gaming world; however, older respondents who do play games are more avid players. Older gamers, particularly seniors, tend to play games more frequently. Over one-third (36%) of gamers 65 and older say they play games everyday or almost everyday, compared with 19% of adults aged 50-64, 20% of adults aged 30-49, and 20% of adults aged 18-29. Senior gamers may play more frequently because they have more time to play than younger gamers, as 77% of senior gamers reported being retired.
Previously:
- Pew report on the demographics of the old net hands - Boing Boing
- Adults warn kids off social network sites, use them themselves ...
- Pew study on bloggers - Boing Boing
- Pew study: Kids remix like hell - Boing Boing
- Pew study on happiness - Boing Boing
- Xeni on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," new Pew 'net study - Boing Boing
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Is that a Katamari hat in the photo?
Adult video games. *snort*
It is a Katamari hat! That made my day.
A new study shows that people who like videogames and have nothing better to do, play more of them than people who have less free time. In other news, the sun has been discovered to be a major source of light.
And here I thought it would be stats for eroge addicts.
Hard Data would be a great name for an adult video game.
"...77% of senior gamers reported being retired."
The other 23% are unemployed!
One of the hazards of using this data to support claims about popular video games is that the data collection doesn't distinguish very well between, say, a bit of Wii Sports at a family gathering, or a few minutes of Solitaire while bored at work, or Tetris/Snake/etc. on the phone while waiting for a bus, and playing GTA IV or BioShock. The data on platforms gives us a little information, but not enough.
In other words, while the data shows the people who play games, it doesn't show how many of those might consider themselves 'gamers'.
Pew! Pew! Pew!
I, for one, intend to bring my NES to the nursing home.
gamses? no time. cost money. toddler prohibits use of computer or tv. free time = sleep.
Old yes
game yes
There are a lot off us and we dont stay in country kitchen
and yes..... All Your Base Are Belong To Us!.
Derf http://www.theoldergamers.com