Online Gaming Habits Surveyed

Posted by simoniker on Monday August 16, 2004 @11:52AM from the person-versus-person dept.

Thanks to Business Wire/TMCNet for its press release summarizing the details of a new NPD survey about online gaming. It's noted that "the overwhelming majority of today's 13-to-44-year-old gamers have the ability to play games online and a good portion are taking advantage of it, but it's dominated by one platform - the PC." Other statistics include online console demographics ("PlayStation 2 and Xbox skew heavily male, with approximately 88 percent being male and 12 percent being female") and the mobile gaming market ("Roughly 10 percent of those who said they play online are strictly mobile-based gamers and do not use any of the three online-capable systems.")

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Online gaming huh.. by Turn-X+Alphonse · 2004-08-16 12:22 · Score: 3, Interesting

Does this mean 1 time online? 2,3,4 or what?

I used to play FPS games (Half-life mods) and Diablo 2 online alot, but in the last 6 months I've lost the urge to play any more. Does this mean I'm an online gamer or not?

I play my GBA more then anything these days (pokemon is to blame..), but I have played online. Do I get stuck with the "played online" group, or with the "I dont" group?

I'm neither yes or no, I'm more "meh"

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