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The average age is  29.
The average age is  29.
The average game buyer age is 36.
The average game buyer age is 36.


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*'''What where the best selling videogames for gameconsoles this year?'''
*'''What where the best selling videogames for gameconsoles this year?'''
Family entertainment:      4.7%<br>  
Family entertainment:      4.7% <br>  
Fighting:                  6.9%<br>  
Fighting:                  6.9% <br>  
First-person shooters:    8.6%<br>  
First-person shooters:    8.6% <br>  
Action:                  27.1%<br>  
Action:                  27.1% <br>  
Role-playing:              8.7%<br>  
Role-playing:              8.7% <br>  
Racing:                  11.3%<br>  
Racing:                  11.3% <br>  
Sports:                  17.6%<br>  
Sports:                  17.6% <br>  


Top 5 selling video games of 2003:
Top 5 selling video games of 2003:

Revision as of 20:34, 24 March 2005

Year 2004:


  • Who plays computer and video games?

Age of players: under 18 - 34%
between 18-50 - 46%
50+ - 17%

The average age is 29. The average game buyer age is 36.

Gender: 60% is male 40% is female


  • Will these gamers keep playing?

53% of gameplayers expect to be playing as much or more ten years from now as they do today.


  • What where the best selling videogames for gameconsoles this year?

Family entertainment: 4.7%
Fighting: 6.9%
First-person shooters: 8.6%
Action: 27.1%
Role-playing: 8.7%
Racing: 11.3%
Sports: 17.6%

Top 5 selling video games of 2003: 1. Madden NFL 2004 2. Pokemon Ruby 3. Pokemon Saphire 4. Need For Speed Underground 5. Zelda the windmaker


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