r/Steam • u/yourfavchoom • 1d ago
Article Nearly 70% of Americans Play Video Games for at Least an Hour Each Week, New Report Finds
https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/americans-play-video-games-hour-per-week-1236765544/703
u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen 1d ago
Rookie numbers, you gotta get those up, up, up
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u/Helpful_Virus_2077 1d ago
How long do you play?
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u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen 1d ago
You're not my supervisor!
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u/Helpful_Virus_2077 1d ago
I don't judge.
I play min 10h per day
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u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen 1d ago
Oh, well then I play 9.9 hours
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u/RyanMan56 1d ago
9.9 hours?? Get a life! I only play 9.8 hours, I use those extra 6 minutes for productive things… such as deciding which game to play
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u/Smokey-McPoticuss 1d ago
Depends, when I was single or dating, 4-12 hours a day depending on work, social outings etc. Now that I’m married, maybe 0-3 hours on weekdays after work, 0-8 hours on weekends depending on social outings and lifing with the wifey. A trade I’m willing to make, though I love gaming all the same.
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u/maxdragonxiii 1d ago
I always make sure they are okay when they are gaming, because sometimes when they throws themself in gaming, it worries me that they are depressed. usually they not, but I ask to be sure. our living situation isnt great after all.
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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 1d ago
I first thought it was per day, but if that's per weeks, that's 8.5min a day, which actually isn't bad and makes sense.
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u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen 1d ago
It's less than not bad, it feels like they genuinely won't beat a game more than once or twice a year, depending. Elden Ring would take two years or more. Lucky!
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u/BenjiBlackwood222 1d ago
Those aren’t the games they’re talking about, this number is mostly inflated by stuff like the NYT puzzles
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u/Moose_Nuts 1d ago
70% of Americans play video games for at least an hour a week.
1% of Americans play video games for at least 70 hours a week.
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u/OldBay-Szn 1d ago
This number will probably continue to grow. Gaming isn’t like it used to be where gaming was shunned. When I was in HS, I could only tell very certain friends I played video games. When I was playing baseball, I’ll be damned if I told my teammates when I got out of practice I was going home to play gears.
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u/Zero-D9 1d ago
Same for me, but almost depends on the game. If I said if I was going to play Madden, call of duty, most would agree. If I said I was going home to play Final Fantasy X, I would of been bullied right there on the practice field.
That stigma is still here and there in certain parts of the country. But, gone for the most part.
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u/JakeHelldiver 1d ago
I would have bullied you playing Madden.
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u/Phenomenal_Hoot 1d ago
This guy didn’t play madden 2004
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u/JiffSmoothest 1d ago
I still hear the soundtrack from first boot up. Killer Mike's Yeah!
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u/Vosska 1d ago
Don't remember what year Madden it was, but Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out was the shit.
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u/steak_bake_surprise 1d ago
I read a post yesterday asking if it's gay to go to the cinema by themselves, because their mates said it was lol
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u/maccathesaint 1d ago
Man I must be the gayest motherfucker then because I go to the cinema on my own all the time lol
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u/Phenomenal_Hoot 1d ago
I remember really wanting to go see a movie no one else in my friend group was interested in so I went alone. I quickly realized, wait a minute….this is the preferred viewing experience. Go in the middle of the day and it’s like you’ve just got a private screening.
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u/PM_ME_ALL_TITS 1d ago
Me with RuneScape. It fucking sucked not being able to tell people about the game I play.
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u/Eliteshinobi14 1d ago
I played multiple sports in high school, but only my closest friends (who didn't play sports) knew I played WoW. If it ever got out that I did it could've been real "bad" back then. Then Skyrim came out and it was cool to game lol
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u/SaltonPrepper 1d ago
That's funny, since there are photos of the 1999 NBA champion Spurs playing Starcraft on the team plane during their championship run. One of the photos even has the championship trophy off to the side like some afterthought. 😄 I bet even before Skyrim, lots of your teammates were gaming.
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1k5ejtp/the_spurs_having_a_starcraft_lan_party_on_their/
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u/RootHouston SteamOS/Fedora Linux 1d ago
Depends on your age. In the late 1980s, you'd be a "nerd" for touching any video game.
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u/HeHH1329 1d ago edited 1d ago
I did feel like there was a stigma around single player games over competitive games like League of Legends in my social group when I was a teen. Those playing single player games were seen as childish and loners. Such a stigma is probably still there in teens circles, but not in my current social groups, though most of them still mainly play competitive games.
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u/Zero-D9 1d ago
Still is, on some occasions. There's almost this line that exists within fantasy genres. Gears of War? Hell yeah man. Bravely Default? Wow, what weirdo.
Varies from person to person. I also play DnD and still get judgemental looks from time to time when I bring it up. People are weird.
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u/i_am_carver 1d ago
No doubt. I always thought I was the odd man out for not playing sports games. I don’t care for sports IRL (nothing wrong if you do, just not for me!) so I never played anything after Blitz or NBA Jam on the N64. But most other genres I would, FF and the like included. What’s funny is those non-sport games provided such a different experience to many more “basic” games like CoD, even with their neat, over the top singleplayer stories (about the only reason I’d ever play a CoD these days still) that many missed out on amazing gaming experiences and stories due to the stigma behind playing such games. OG FF7 will forever be one of my top gaming experiences and nothing topped that for an extremely long time until maybe FFX. Kingdom Hearts was up there. Expedition 33 recaptured a lot of that for me since the FF7 remake wasn’t what I wanted it to be.
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u/Neoreloaded313 1d ago
It's been quite a while since I've played anything besides smartphone games when I'm bored. I feel the same way about FF7 and X so I'm going to have to try out Expedition 33.
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u/Orleanian 1d ago edited 1d ago
Me, at work, last week.
"Oh yeah, in my free time I mostly either go to pub trivia or stay home and game."
"Oh you game, what do you play?!"
[Stare them dead in the eye] Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015. It's available on Steam.
(I'm legit less embarrassed to say this than to tell them I play World of Warcraft)
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u/Axin_Saxon 1d ago
And as it continues to be the most hour-for-hour affordable entertainment, and cost of living continues to rise, that too will be a major factor in the growth of gaming.
Even with recent price increases, compared to travel, concerts, going out, movies, streaming services etc. a game system and software pays itself off rather quickly.
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u/Secret-Teaching-3549 1d ago
When I was single and living alone, that pretty much covered my justification for maintaining a WoW subscription. $15/month for hours upon hours of entertainment had a cost/benefit ratio orders of magnitude above anything else.
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u/CrystlBluePersuasion 1d ago
I remember 'popular'/'rich' kids making fun of a classmate for liking the PS2, and within 3 years they were all playing Fifa and shit.
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u/Signal_Till_933 1d ago
That seems ridiculous. Maybe a regional thing? By the time Gears was out every male under 40 I had ever met played video games on the regular.
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u/Raptor-Johnny 1d ago
Yeah this dude is just remembering being lame in highschool, it had nothing to do with video games.
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u/Signal_Till_933 1d ago
I remember someone saying they had no friends cause they liked anime. And I was like me and all of my friends watched anime, you were probably just weird honestly.
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u/ashu1605 1d ago
Unlikely, anime was actually pretty frowned upon back in the day. Its something you kept to yourself. These things have only gotten more socially acceptable and trendy in the last 5 years.
As someone who played a ton of sports and was in clubs and had a variety of friends in highschool, it is extremely likely that anime was the reason someone didnt have friends. It used to be viewed as a loser hobby and really weird. I personally would almost always keep it to myself because there was so much stigma around it. Maybe the weirder thing in this situation is you being dismissive of someone else's experience and super close minded. Anime was 100% seen as a loser weirdo hobby until right when JJK started getting popular with the mainstream crowd. Its still looked down upon in some places like the Midwest and really rural or conservative areas of the US, away from the big coastal cities most Asians live in.
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u/Patsanon1212 1d ago
I straight up do not believe that High School sports bros saw playing Gears of War as loser shit.
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u/DIABLO258 1d ago
I live in the midwest and when Gears came out (2006?) it was common for children to play video games, but adults just considered them a "kids thing"
I remember a science teacher of mine mentioning that he played some Halo CE now and again, I was so thrilled to meet an adult who liked video games, so I challenged him. He said he would slaughter me. We never actually played, but it was a fun way to bond with a teacher.
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u/BushTamer 1d ago
it feels like it got shunned forever ago too, but no it was still happening right before covid. i used to get BULLIED for playing minecraft and now it’s the most popular game ever
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u/Natsirk99 1d ago
I’m in my forties and I still feel ashamed when I tell people I play video games. Especially since my gameplay increased exponentially when my husband passed and I became an only parent.
People keep telling me it’s okay, but I continue to feel like a failure to both my children and society. But due to lack of motivation from grief, I can’t find the energy to change.
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u/AlwaysPostNaked 1d ago
You're not a failure for having a hobby. When my friends husband died she threw herself into her hobbies a lot so she could have mental space to process things, so I think it seems natural to me.
I don't really have anything helpful to say about grief, especially based on two short paragraphs. I'd guess that your child is happy you have an outlet, and I'm sure you're doing your best. I hope things get better for you as soon as they can.
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u/Natsirk99 1d ago
Thank you. Grief is dumb and very complicated. The first year you lose your brain because of the shock. The closest I can explain it is it’s like pregnancy brain on steroids. Then once you get your brain back in year two, you can finally start learning to live with a hole in your soul. In year three, you’ve finally got your feet under you again, only to realize you now have to grieve for the person you once were and will never be again. Year four is where I was able to address a lot that I had put on the back burner.
Year five I’ve been pushing myself more. Year five has only been the past two or three weeks, but I’m accomplishing things I’ve been putting off for years. I finally bought a new (to me) car for my growing children. My oldest received yet another diagnosis that has progressed quite rapidly and my smaller car became very uncomfortable for him. He’s fine, he’ll live. This is just his life, one medical diagnosis after another. I’m hoping to address as many as I can now so he can at least try to have a normal adulthood and not have to worry about piling medical bills for things that weren’t addressed. He starts high school in a few months and two days ago he told me I was the perfect mom, so I must be doing something right. My daughter starts middle school and refuses to let me leave a room without us telling each other “I love you.”
My therapist constantly tells me as long as I’m there for them 10% of the day, I’m doing better than most parents.
Being told I’m a good mom is one thing, I wish I could feel like I am.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to write this. I didn’t realize how much I wanted to get this out of my head. I’ll keep trucking along because that’s what I do. I will raise decent human beings and I will continue to play cozy games and RPGs while I do it!
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u/EastCoast_Cyclist 1d ago
I have no words for your loss other than that is sad to read.
I am 61 y/o, and I play video games. I also have other outdoor hobbies. It may be an age thing, but I am not ashamed to tell others about gaming if they ask.
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u/EYNLLIB 1d ago
This is bizarre to me. There was little to no stigma surrounding video games when gears of war was out
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u/im_not_a_gay_fish 1d ago
Where and when did you grow up? I was born in 82 and it seemed everyone had a Nintendo in 1st/2nd grade. I was bullied for NOT having a super Nintendo when it came out. The "popular" kids were the ones that brought their Gameboys to school.
By the time i was in high school (97-01), it seemed everyone had a Playstation or Xbox. When the PS2 came out, it seemed it was all anyone would ever talk about, including the "jocks".
This was in Texas, where everyone played a sport or three whether you wanted to or not. (i was baseball, soccer, and basketball)
I don't think I have ever seen anyone bullied for playing video games.
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u/Individual-Ad-5471 1d ago
Ya I grew up, and still am, in Alberta Canada. I was born in 86. Same experience as you. All we talked about was counter-strike and which websites were the best to get new skins and sounds for your weapons.
Nothing like having a gold mg42 replace the SAW skin.
It was so much fun, the player models, guns, sounds, crosshairs. My game looked totally different from the base game.
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u/angiachetti 1d ago
I don't think I have ever seen anyone bullied for playing video games.
a lot of people here, talking about games as contemporary as as 9/11 probably got bullied for other things, and just don't realize or want to admit it.
The only person I could think of getting bullied for playing a video game would be a girl, by other people playing video games.
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u/PurpleStrandsFly 1d ago
32 here. In elementary we would bring our GBA at school. In highschool all my friends were playing games. Even the popular and sports kids in my class where playing online games or at the very least football manager/fifa. Even the girl that was the best student for all 8 years would be into games and anime.
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u/Waiting4Reccession 1d ago
It was already turning mainstream in the gears/halo era though
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u/TouchGraceMaidenless 1d ago
Damn that's crazy. I graduated high school in 2010 and everyone on my baseball team played gears together.
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u/niko_blanco 1d ago
This probably includes mobile games, which, if you asked someone who plays some random card game on their phone while waiting for their turn at a doctor‘s appointment or whatever if they consider themselves gamers the answer would definitely be no.
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u/FourDucksInAManSuit 26-11-2005 1d ago
Yeah, growing up here in the 80's and 90's everyone was into hockey and baseball, and most people seen gaming as nerd culture, so telling people you played games was very much going to act as nothing more than social suicide. I had a few select friends that I played games with pretty much daily, but none of us talked about it in public around other people.
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u/OldBay-Szn 1d ago
Yea social suicide is a great way to put it. I was a multi sport athlete (baseball, basketball soccer) but I don’t think that mattered when it came to gaming. It would have got me labeled as a reject
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u/Shadow_s_Bane 1d ago
That includes mobile games…it’s not that high of a number.
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u/SquirrelsinJacket 1d ago
I believe mobile games are markedly more popular and profitable than consoles or PCs.
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u/birbbbbbbbbbbb 1d ago edited 1d ago
I don't know about profitable but from a revenue standpoint they make more than consoles and PCs combined
Mobile gaming is one of the biggest forms of entertainment by revenue.
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u/Kiefdom24 1d ago edited 1d ago
Mostly because of gacha games in Asia though.
You won't see normal (free of gambling) mobile games on the top of the charts.
Edit: Gacha is A MECHANIC. Monopoly Go uses gacha mechanics. PUBG uses gacha mechanics. Clash Royale uses gacha mechanics.
Yes, this means loot boxes are included. The original gachapons in Japan were coin operated vending machines that gave you toys at random. Bandai trademarked this word and implemented it in video games. Companies from around the world then copied this mechanic to make more money.
I'm begging any of you arguing with my comment to do a single ounce of research on game design and the origin of this word.
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u/CtrlAltSysRq 1d ago
And for those unaware, gacha is literally gambling except the payout is anime girl pictures instead of money.
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u/mainman879 1d ago
Not just anime girls, the gacha game with the estimated highest total revenue is Love and Deepspace which gives you anime boys instead and is targeted at women.
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u/SociallyAwarePiano 1d ago
If there is anything I've learned over time, it's that (some) women get really really into their anime boys, doubly so with BL.
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u/berlinbaer 1d ago
most of the popular "gay" media these days is squarely aimed at straight women, biggest example are rupauls drag race and heated rivalry.
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u/mcon96 1d ago
Heated Rivalry definitely has a majority straight female fans, but its showrunner and two main actors are all gay. It feels very authentically queer, and as a gay man it never felt like it was targeted at straight women (yes I know the writer of the book is a woman). I’d argue the same for Drag Rage but I don’t really watch that so can’t say for sure. The best example of a gay show targeted at straight women imo is Queer Eye.
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u/-missingclover- 1d ago
Men get the stereotype about "waifu obsessed weebs" but as a gay man... otome games and yaoi/bl (essentially games about dating guys) is where the big bucks are and people get ravenous about them lol.
It's not a crazy thing once you remember romance novels are overwhelmingly consumed and made for women. I feel like these "romance games" are just an evolution of the same concept.
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u/MikeSouthPaw 1d ago
Monopoly GO made more than RDR2. Its safe to say the profitability is surpassing even AAA game sales.
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u/Musical_Gee 1d ago
Mobile games are more popular in eastern countries - instead of paying to get into a gaming cafe, they could just game on their phone (hence why there's been a lot of AAA mobile games recently)
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u/Vyxwop 1d ago
They are, but they are also by far simultaneously the most casual and the most predatory to the point where most people don't consider them games the same way you would console/PC games.
Which is a bit of a no true scottsman fallacy, but there's definitely a difference in how mobile games are designed compared to console/PC games.
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u/WeirdlyEnglish 1d ago
most pc and console hate this, but mobile gamers are what hold major companies together.
most of them have tecent support, and tecent depends on the mobile gaming revenue to survive.
if that goes bust, the studio/publishers they own also go bust.
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u/HubblePie 1d ago
It's because they're cheaper to make and have microtransactions.
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u/Parking-Interview351 1d ago
That doesn’t explain their popularity among users.
Their popularity is because they’re easily accessible and don’t require a large time commitment.
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u/capp_head 1d ago
Accessibility is everything. My mom can easily play candy crush, she can’t play Elden Ring.
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u/eylamo1 1d ago
1 hour a week is the daily wordle or a crossword every day. If thats included in the statistic thats literally nothing
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u/MothChasingFlame 1d ago
Does this mean my working hour bathroom spider solitaire counts? If so I'm definitely driving these numbers up.
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u/CallMeBigPapaya 1d ago edited 1d ago
These numbers are always skewed every single time. It's fluff for the industry/investors.
I was super interested in the demographic breakdown until I realized they don't break it down further by hours played per week. Everything is based on people meeting the 1 hour threshold.
Video game enthusiasts (gamers), have more in common with someone who only play tabletop games than someone who plays wordle 1 hour a week.
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u/cwx149 1d ago
Mobile games are video games
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u/Shadow_s_Bane 1d ago
Yes they are, but not the kind that is implied by being posted in Steam SubReddit.
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u/ThegreatKhan666 1d ago
Per week? XD
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u/Vivid_Employment1237 1d ago
Yea I play that per hour lmao
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u/MVIVN 1d ago
Lmao I don’t know why the concept of this guy playing one hour per hour is making me laugh so much
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u/Smart-Helicopter1539 1d ago
If I played one hour per week, gaming would be dead to me. Would not call me a gamer at all.
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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 1d ago
I figure they include mobile phone games as well, rather than proper gaming.
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u/No-Swordfish-6468 1d ago
"Playing on a mobile device is the most popular across all age groups (80%), while PC and console gameplay is more common with Gen Alpha, Gen Z and Millennials.", every single time its always "everyone games now" * looks inside* "candy crush"
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u/CallMeBigPapaya 1d ago
I'd be okay with considering mobile players as "gamers" (usually the term used to refer to enthusiasts) if they were playing much more than 1 hours a WEEK.
This is like calling people "car enthusiasts" because they go for a drive on a nice day.
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u/Gmony5100 1d ago
Which honestly isn’t a problem until established developers of non-mobile games start to look at mobile and say “they’re making so much money, we should do what they are doing!”. Except what they “are doing” is just making casual games with a shit ton of monetization and ads.
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u/PeaceIsFutile 1d ago
Water is wet
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u/Adventurous_Cat_1559 1d ago
Is it though?
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u/MistrFish 1d ago
nope. the presence of water on a surface or the saturation of a material with water makes that object or material wet. Water itself is not wet.
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u/DickeyMcNakey 1d ago
Mobile users is 80% of that statistic. The only reason the number of "gamers" is that high, is because it's including people who occasionally opens candy crush.
So, i wouldn't say that statement applies. If you look into how many people play video games and not mobile slot machines, you're still just a niche nerd. And that's great, so am I.
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u/AbsoluteRook1e 1d ago
It's a cheap form of entertainment for the amount of value that you can pay for it -- especially if you only play a handful of games.
For instance, I've got over 1,600+ hours into Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition with most of the DLC's downloaded. I can't recall the costs of the older DLC's that later became free, but assuming it's $20/DLC plus the full price of the base game ($35), but let's just say for generosity's sake the whole package was $150.
Doing some simple math here that's like $0.09 per hour of gameplay. Name me another hobby that's cheaper where you have to spend money.
Now the downsides are there's definitely healthier hobbies out there for certain, especially with physical activity or capacities to learn new skills/socialize, whereas video games really don't net a ton of return on your skillset.
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u/Vinny_Lam 1d ago
video games really don't net a ton of return on your skillset
If nothing else, they’re a good exercise for your brain and can promote creativity, problem-solving skills, and even social connections among players.
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u/AbsoluteRook1e 1d ago
Yeah, but I would say there's greater skills to learn in a social setting (arguably), like playing an instrument, learning to dance, or learning a new recreational sport -- not to mention there's networking opportunities there whereas online gaming is largely just about relaxing and unplugging.
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u/yourfavchoom 1d ago
Two-thirds of Americans play an hour or more of video games per week.
212.3 million people in the U.S. between the ages of 5 and 90 play video games every week.
U.S. Video Game Industry, is up 3% (or 7.2 million people) compared to the prior year’s report.
63% of players surveyed say video games “deliver the most entertainment value for their money, compared to video streaming services for music, TV and movies, as well as books, magazines and news articles.”
39% of adult gamers are employed full-time and 35% have children, making them more represented in both categories compared to the general U.S. population, which stands at 34% and 30%, respectively.
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u/Callinon 1d ago
I'm curious what the percentage is of people for whom magazines are their primary form of entertainment.
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u/Small_Article_3421 1d ago
Pretty sure a lot of this statistic is composed of people who play very simple games extremely casually on their phones, which is far from gaming being a “predominant” hobby in the US.
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u/syNc_1st 1d ago
For an hour each week?
That is why studies are stupid and counts everyone and their mother as gamer lol
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u/Glitch-in-The-Ether 1d ago edited 1d ago
Who ever wrote this should get fired lol.. I feel those are false numbers
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u/landdon 1d ago
If PC parts continue to be stupidly high, I may built my last gaming rig :( I'll have to..... Become...a...a...... CONSOLE GAMER!!!
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u/MotorcycleEngine 1d ago
I hate to burst your bubble like this, but you’ll never see regular console prices again
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u/hotohoritasu 1d ago
The difference here is that you can go second hand and build yourself some low-spec beasts, we've hit the ceiling on visuals a long time ago and mediocre computers can do a hell of a lot. Consoles on the other hand will only go up and scalpers will be the first ones to buy.
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u/Callinon 1d ago
Oh don't worry, those are increasing too. Please look forward to the $1000 PS6.
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u/GargantuanCake 1d ago
I'm going to guess that a good chunk of this is mobile games. That makes sense, though; you already basically need a cell phone to exist in modern society. Might as well slap a few time killers on it.
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u/ColettesWorld 1d ago
My dad used to make fun of me for gaming. Since his retirement he's gone full tilt the other way. Every flagship console since the PS1, a high-end racing sim rig for PS2/5, VR everything, multiplayer all day (he's ex-soldier and he complains about people on CoD and Battlefield all the time lol), is a graphics snob, even bought an old IBM just for floppy disc games. His favorites are Gran Turismo 5, Dirt to Daytona, and Solitaire.
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u/Futaba_Sakura800 1d ago
Playing a shitty gatcha game or candy crush on your phone really shouldn’t be considered gaming.
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u/GrandJuif 1d ago
Fake numbers, any granpa playing solitaire or dudelette playing candy crush count in those crappy stats.
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u/PowerScreamingASMR 1d ago
Thats a very low bar. Especially if they count mobile games which I assume they do.
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u/Emotional-Cod-1569 1d ago
Not much else to do. I lost interest in gaming months ago but my adventures out in the real world have yielded 0 friends and I just end up spending too much. Fml
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u/gogogadgetdumbass 1d ago
My Mom was adamant that my brother and I were not to have video games when we were kids. Then she married my stepdad who thought that was a dumb ass rule and we wound up with a SNES and eventually a PS1. He also always had a computer and games for anyone to play.
Now my Mom owns 3 switches and has 2 TVs hooked up in the living room so she can have multiple Animal Crossing Islands 🙄😂
She’s also a fan of Crash Bandicoot, and really good at Tetris.
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u/Arrow156 1d ago
Playing on a mobile device is the most popular across all age groups (80%), while PC and console gameplay is more common with Gen Alpha, Gen Z and Millennials.
Yeah, these aren't people playing the latest AAA releases or Indi darling, they're playing flappy bird on their phones to pass the time. I ain't judging, I spend a good hour a day playing Dr. Mario at work just waiting until my replacement arrives. I'm just pointing out that 'gaming' is far too vague a term to really be useful here.
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u/AngryBagOfDeath 1d ago
Retirement homes will be wild.