Average age of Gamers

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Quartz on 04 July 2013

Another 'Average age gamer' story. Good job I'm 34 myself...

Enjoy and discuss.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10159917/Average-video-game-fan-is-35-years-old.html

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Wright on 04 July 2013

srsly?

Then there's gotta be a lot of +50 year old people playing to counterbalance the -20 years old gamers.

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osed125 on 04 July 2013

Interesting, I thought this would be lower, maybe in the 23-27 range.

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Busted on 04 July 2013

I don't think there's something to discuss here, this is kind of obvious. The two extremes (3/16 and 50+) have always been the minority.

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KingCherry on 04 July 2013

This isn't your average gamer that they're portraying in that picture. Woman and men in my workplace who are 60(ish) play social games like Farmville, my Gran plays Solitaire on Windows, so the age is being pushed right up.

Excluding casual/throwaway/social gaming, I bet your the average age of a console/traditional PC gamer is only 23-27. Mainly males aged 7-43.

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Wright on 04 July 2013

Bristow9091 said:

Wright said:

srsly?

Then there's gotta be a lot of +50 year old people playing to counterbalance the -20 years old gamers.

My dad is 52, sat in the other room playing Gran Turismo 5, and my grandad has borrowed The Last of Us off me, he's 70...

Yeah, but not everyone's dad plays videogames. Mine don't D:

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Suke on 04 July 2013

Does this mean, that were going to get is rated M shooters. No more platformers.....IPs...oh joy :/

It use to be 36, now its 35? Weird

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Suke said:
Does this mean, that were going to get is rated M shooters. No more platformers.....IPs...oh joy :/

It use to be 36, now its 35? Weird

Nintendo has you covered in this regard. Three (probably) excellent platformers in the 2nd half of 2013 on the WiiU alone :P

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