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Posted by Zonk on from the and-easily-referenced dept.

Vodoo Extreme has the results from a recent study that looks into the spending and playing habits of gamers. From the article: "Gamers spend more than $700 a year: $341 on console titles, $233 on PC games and another $140 for accessories."

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  1. Not too bad by SunFan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If gamers use games as their main source of entertainment, $700 isn't so bad. It is easy to spend that much just on a cable TV subscription.

    Of course, it would be better to spend a little less and save that money, but, hey, Social Security will still be there...right?

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  2. Info from the survey: by Golgafrinchan · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Gamers play an average of 20 hours a week; ten percent spend 40 plus hours a week.

    Based on this, I'd say it's pretty clear that teens and college students are overrepresented in the survey relative to the true gaming population. I don't know anyone in their mid-20's or older who can come close to averaging 20 hours a week. At the same time, nearly every male I know that's my age games on a reasonably frequent basis. So I'm guessing not many of them responded to this poll.

    This would've been more helpful if they'd have published an age breakdown of survey respondents. I think it'd be interesting to know, for example, how many hours per week 25+ year olds can play.

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