Online Gaming Habits Surveyed

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.")

Comments

emailing the survey

[adamshelley]

chances are if you are emailing the survey the person has a PC and has gamed on it online.

this is a flawed approach.

u need to find people without a pc (no email) and find out if they play online with a console.

no wonder PC won.

In other news

[Pluvius]

Scientists have discovered that water is wet. More on this as it develops.

Rob

In other news...

[MagicDude]

PlayStation 2 and Xbox skew heavily male, with approximately 88 percent being male and 12 percent being female

In other news, a study shows that 12% of video game players are habitual liars.

It's not there yet

[sqrt(2)]

I'm sick of watching or reading reviews for games and seeing that they took a big hit in the score for not having online play. When did online play become the deciding factor for console games, when the majority of console owners either can't use it, or don't want to? Fuck, I mean Mario Kart DD was marked down on that mindfuck G4 show because the one guy said that it had poor multiplayer. WTF, he thinks that online play is it when it comes to multiplayer.

Online play in the consoles has not yet reached the level of affordability and ease of use as the PC enjoys, so it's not time yet to be comparing the two in terms of popularity.