Survey: U.S. gamers are mostly adults, who mostly don’t call themselves “gamers”
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More than three quarters of gamers in the United States are 18 or over, even if many don’t identify with the label of “gamer,” according to a new survey of the American game-playing population.
The data comes from an online survey of 5,000 kids, teens and adults conducted last October by YouGov for the Entertainment Software Association, the DC-based lobbying and trade group that includes most of gaming’s biggest publishers—Nintendo, PlayStation, Microsoft, EA, etc—among its members.
The ESA’s annual Essential Facts About the U.S. Video Game Industry survey can usually be boiled down to showing that: Americans love video games and find them a productive thing to do.
It also shows some post-pandemic dip in the U.S. gaming population.
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