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14 thoughts on “Gaming Stats Infographic”

  1. Katey Springle Lempka
    April 22, 2012 at 10:01

    I won­der where they got their stats. I’d like to believe 44% of gamers are female now, but it seems hard to believe. Maybe their def­i­n­i­tion of “gamer” is dif­fer­ent than mine.

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  2. Eoghann Irving
    April 22, 2012 at 10:08

    Well I don’t think they’re lim­it­ing it to hard­core gamers.

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  3. Kristin Moran
    April 22, 2012 at 10:09

    I have a LOT of female gamer friends, fwiw.

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  4. Cathryn Orchard
    April 22, 2012 at 10:10

    It seems fair to me. I know as many female gamers as male.

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  5. Katey Springle Lempka
    April 22, 2012 at 10:18

    Agreed, +Eoghann Irv­ing . I guess I don’t think of play­ing Wii as being a “gamer” but hey… they’re games. :) And I do real­ize the num­ber of female hard-core gamers is ris­ing, I just didn’t realize/think that we were close to 50/50.

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  6. Eoghann Irving
    April 22, 2012 at 10:26

    Wii gam­ing is about the only sort I do. Any­thing else is just too time con­sum­ing these days.

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  7. Keith Wilson
    April 22, 2012 at 10:36

    I know guys (and gals) who will spend hours gam­ing. They get home from work and spend the next 4 – 5 hours gam­ing. They spend their entire week­end gam­ing. That level of gam­ing just isn’t for me at this stage of life. I like some­thing that I can play for 30 – 60 min­utes at a time and then go do some­thing else. I’m not look­ing to mas­ter a game, I’m just look­ing to have fun.

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  8. Cathryn Orchard
    April 22, 2012 at 11:02

    Play­ing Zelda on a Wii is equally ”gam­ing’ as play­ing it on any other console.

    And it seems per­fectly nor­mal for a lot of peo­ple to sit them­selves in front of the tv for 4 – 5 hours in an evening.

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  9. Keith Wilson
    April 22, 2012 at 11:13

    +Cathryn Orchard Yes, many peo­ple do spend 4 – 5 hours in front of the tv every evening. I’m not one of them. I watch about 5 – 7 hours of tele­vi­sion a week, includ­ing what I watch on Net­flix and Hulu. I have noth­ing against hard­core gamers. I’m just not one of them anymore.

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  10. Eoghann Irving
    April 22, 2012 at 11:14

    I’m sure I spend more time watch­ing tv than gam­ing, but part of that is because the TV doesn’t require the unin­ter­rupted con­cen­tra­tion that more seri­ous games require.

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  11. Cathryn Orchard
    April 22, 2012 at 11:15

    Not to imply that you were one of them Keith :)

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  12. Katey Springle Lempka
    April 22, 2012 at 19:33

    Zelda is a fan­tasy game, of course it “counts” on any plat­form. :) I was think­ing more of my Mommy friends who play Wii Fit or Wii Sports, but do not label them­selves “a gamer.”

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  13. Keith Wilson
    April 22, 2012 at 20:34

    I think there’s some snob­bery in the gam­ing com­mu­nity. If you spend 5 hours a day gam­ing, you’re a gamer. If you spend 5 hours a month gam­ing, you’re not a gamer.

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  14. Cathryn Orchard
    April 23, 2012 at 03:19

    My mum prob­a­bly plays around 3 hours of Bejew­elled sytle games in an evening and I am sure she wouldn’t con­sider her­self a ‘gamer’. I am going to make her a ‘hard­core casual gamer’ t-shirt since I like the seem­ing contradiction.

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