Post by jeffolie on Aug 5, 2012 17:35:38 GMT -6
Gamers 30yrs old , smartphones gaining on PCs
My son graduated college this May and plays games about 80% less now that his girlfriend dominates his time plus she never has been a Gamer. He built his own computer last December with hardware for gaming. His fancy has turned.
Gaming is big business. New games easily can cost the maker over $100 million to get to market.
Gamers play on smart phones more so now than ever PCs.
Gamers who demand high quality graphics remain on PCs or consoles with have the best graphics cards, faster chips, dedicated sound systems. This is a dying fraction of the total market with rumors that consoles may not be manufactured at all withing 5 years.
As phones becomes more widely used to play games, the average age of gamers has declined to almost twenty something ... most likely this trend will continue.
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Gamer Demographics
Everyone is having a hard time keeping up with new technology--even the Entertainment Software Association, the trade group for the video game industry.
According to an article in Ars Technica, a change in question wording in ESA's 2012 survey of gaming activity resulted in a younger age profile for the nation's gamers (average age = 30, down from 37 in 2011). Previous surveys had suggested that gamers were getting older, but the 2012 results revealed that earlier surveys--because they included only video game consoles or PCs and not tablet or phone games in the screening question--had been monitoring "more of a generational platform shift, where the traditional PC and console market continues to age while younger players gravitate towards smartphones, tablets, and portable systems," says Ars Technica's gaming editor Kyle Orland.
For more about the demographics of gamers, see Orland's article, "How Gaming's Demographics Reverted to 2005."
arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/how-gamings-demographics-reverted-back-to-2005/
demomemo.blogspot.com/
My son graduated college this May and plays games about 80% less now that his girlfriend dominates his time plus she never has been a Gamer. He built his own computer last December with hardware for gaming. His fancy has turned.
Gaming is big business. New games easily can cost the maker over $100 million to get to market.
Gamers play on smart phones more so now than ever PCs.
Gamers who demand high quality graphics remain on PCs or consoles with have the best graphics cards, faster chips, dedicated sound systems. This is a dying fraction of the total market with rumors that consoles may not be manufactured at all withing 5 years.
As phones becomes more widely used to play games, the average age of gamers has declined to almost twenty something ... most likely this trend will continue.
===============================
Gamer Demographics
Everyone is having a hard time keeping up with new technology--even the Entertainment Software Association, the trade group for the video game industry.
According to an article in Ars Technica, a change in question wording in ESA's 2012 survey of gaming activity resulted in a younger age profile for the nation's gamers (average age = 30, down from 37 in 2011). Previous surveys had suggested that gamers were getting older, but the 2012 results revealed that earlier surveys--because they included only video game consoles or PCs and not tablet or phone games in the screening question--had been monitoring "more of a generational platform shift, where the traditional PC and console market continues to age while younger players gravitate towards smartphones, tablets, and portable systems," says Ars Technica's gaming editor Kyle Orland.
For more about the demographics of gamers, see Orland's article, "How Gaming's Demographics Reverted to 2005."
arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/how-gamings-demographics-reverted-back-to-2005/
demomemo.blogspot.com/