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

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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.

No, the issue people have is if it is a phone which is a phone used only as a phone 99.9% of the time and then they sit on the toilet for 3 mins and play a game of snake on it they aren't a part of the 22billion dollar gaming industry and that phone was not purchased for gaming.