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

[Eddie_Raja]

mornelithe said:

Eddie_Raja said:

I meant just because someone else games differently than you doesn't mean they can't be "Gamers."  Candy crush is a game.

Yeah, the problem is the vast majority of those folks, don't actually contribute to the industry (freemium).  And many many of those people don't consider themselves 'gamers' because they play a time wasting app on a phone.  Someone else raised a good question, about those who self-identify as gamer's vs those who just play a random game here and there.

It's not necessarily that someone else games differently than me, it's do those people consider themselves gamers?  Either way though, I don't 'really' care, I can just see the point being made that there's a very real difference between how the two groups contribute to the industry. 

Maybe not with that game, but that is in many ways a "Gateway Drug."  It may be candy crush now, but it could possibly opens their mind to other gaming possibilities they would have previously written off.

People said the same stuff about the Wii, and yet it brought gaming to a lot of "Non-Gamers."  That is never a bad thing.