Average Gamer 35 Years Old, 44% Female, Plenty of other Stats - ESA Releases Game Stats

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mornelithe said:

Smear-Gel said:
This thread is absolutely terrible. People still use "hardcore" gamer unironically. People think this really wide study is invalid because this niche site as different values than it. People assume that if you're gaming on mobile, it HAS to be Candy Crush and Flappy Bird.

If someone buys thier PS3 as a Blue Ray Player and plays games occasionally, nobody is gonna question why they bought the PS3, but if it's a phone suddenly the world's biggest magnifying glass is put on them and everything explained away so that we can pretend the definitions, opinions, statistics and views from the wider society about gaming have been the same for the past 50 years and happen to fall in line with what we think.

Just dreadful.

And by people, you mean 1 person who used the word invalid.  Hyperbole man, hoooooooooooooooooooooooo!

For all the non-edge of the cliff type folks, they've made a decent effort explaining their thoughts/concerns regarding the study.

It definitely wasnt just one person.

 

People who game on phones/social gamers need to somehow validate thier game playing a lot more than we expect other gamers to, because of the stigma we have against phones. Nobody cares how much that kid who got an Xbox One for christmas and plays minecraft and COD knows about the wider gaming market.