PlayStation Network's Typical User Is 28, Male, Educated, Moneyed

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Are you the typical PlayStation Network user? It depends on whether you match the criteria shared by U.S. PSN director of operations Eric Lempel to the publication Video Business.

Lempel was discussing the PS3 and PSP's PlayStation Network, which Sony says now has more than 12/5 million users (It's unclear if the current count includes people who have only registered online to use the PlayStation forums and not through Sony gamign hardware).

VB : Who is the PlayStation Network audience?

Lempel : Right now, it's primarily male. The average age is 28 years old, in usually the middle- to higher-income range. They over-index against those with graduate degrees. But it's expanding. What we're finding ever since we've introduced services like the video download service, we're getting more of the household on the PlayStation Network. Some of the top rentals and sales on the video side have been content that probably doesn't appeal exactly to that 28-year-old male. It's more those movies that are geared toward women.

For the record, I have a Master's degree. I guess I'm middle income? And I'm 32 as of this writing.

Q&A: PSP Go utilizes PlayStation Network for content

Nice.

Oh man, you don't know how much I want the movie rental service...

As for the topic at hand, didn't I read a study recently saying that most gamers are 23-26 years old (don't quite remember), unemployed and hate life?

^ I think it was 30 fat and depressed

Well, this is somewhat true. Some of my good friends on my list are graduates from popular colleges ( UCLA, Texas, Notre Dome, Duke, USC etc) and they're like 26-29.

I'm 17, play video games like friggn crazy, and #3 overall in-state for the 100m dash.

im 23, i have a degree in HVAC, and i collect unemployment

I'm 18, going to college, and I don't make a ton of money as of right now.

The Typical gamer on PSN is a 13 year old kid who has put in his DOB as a 28 year old

well i am 27 (28 next month), educated.....not so sure about the money part though lol

mmm... Cool.