Gaming officially mainstream

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Dec 082008
 

We always said that it would happen, that eventually the non-gamers would start to age out of the population, and we would be at a place where games would be more accepted as a mainstream entertainment medium simply because most people would have engaged in gaming. Well, we’re officially there now with the news that over half of American adults are gamers.

More than half of American adults play video games and one in five play just about every day, according to a survey released Sunday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The survey of 2,054 U.S. adults was conducted late last year, with a margin of error of about 2 percent.

People from all walks of life play, though younger adults are far more likely to play than seniors, proof that video games are mainstream entertainment for the generations that grew up with them. In all, 81 percent of respondents between 18 and 29 said they play games, compared with 23 percent of people 65 and older.

–breaking news – national news – world news – azcentral.com.

There are additional interesting stats in there — higher education seems to be correlated with more play, not less; and basically all teens are gamers. There’s also interesting stuff around gamers with kids.

  9 Responses to “Gaming officially mainstream”

  1. David Sahlin says:
    December 8, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    Victory!

  2. Liz Dorland (Chimera Cosmos) says:
    December 8, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    Very cool. But how did azcentral.com get to be so prominent in your linkage? Not my experience that they were on the breaking edge when I lived in PHX. LOL (still do get their email updates for old-times-sake and kids living there tho)

  3. Raph says:
    December 8, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    It popped up as an AP link, and when I clicked on it, that’s where it sent me.

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  6. mandrill says:
    December 8, 2008 at 4:59 pm

    Let the shouts of W00t! and OMGWTFBBQ! ring out from the rooftops. Maybe now they’ll take our art seriously.

  7. Yukon Sam says:
    December 9, 2008 at 6:33 am

    Damn. Mainstream? I’ve been an oppressed geek for so long, I don’t know what mainstream means. Do we have to wear ties?

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