Sales tracking group NPD has announced the results of a new gaming study, showing that 72 percent of the U.S. say they played games, online play still lagging behind offline, and an overwhelming minority owning more than one next-gen system.NPD says the number of game-players has grown from its last study, up from 64 percent the year prior. More than half of that 72 percent, says NPD play games online, but relative to "total U.S. population," online gamers have only risen slightly from 40 percent in 2007 to 42 percent.
90 percent of online gamers said the PC was their platform of choice, compared to 19 percent for console and portable systems, and 3 percent for cell phones. Younger players make up a good percentage of online players, with 40 percent of online gamers between 2 and 17, with 18-24 year olds only making up 10 percent.
As for online console players, 50 percent were Xbox 360 gamers, who spent the most time per week playing online compared to PC and PS3 owners. Finally, NPD says only three percent of respondents said they owned two of the three next-gen consoles, and only 2 percent said they owned all three.
Said NPD analyst Anita Frazier, “Despite the buzz in the industry regarding online gaming, it is still relatively small compared to offline gaming. There is still a large, untapped market for gaming in general and online gaming in particular.”
POSTED: 09.57AM PST, 04/02/08 - Brandon Boyer
Source: gamasutra.com
I would have to say I am within that 2-3% of multiple console owners, a great question to ask would be which system gets the most play time. Right now my Sony PS3 gets a lots of love. My Xbox360 may get the RROD due to jealousy.
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We have Xbox 360 and Wii. We just seem to upgrade every time Nintendo comes out with a new system...we've had them all since the beginning. Xbox was just becasue our daughter requested it. Wii, definitely gets the most play time here. We really don't play online games as I'm usually hogging the computer for blogging. I think it would be interesting to know which game console gets the most play time when people have more than one...put up a poll, would ya! :)
That a great Idea DiamondDigger. I will put a poll up. I want a Wii but it makes not sense that there is still a demand or Nintendo is not making enough to go around. Thank you the comment.
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