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40% of Adults Play Games

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-it dept.

Gamasutra reports on an AP Poll stating that some 40% of American adults play games. From the article: "The poll also yielded plenty of other results worth ruminating on - 45 percent of gamers play over the Internet, and those who do are notably more 'hardcore' than those who do not. Forty-two percent of online gamers spent four hours or more per week playing games, but only 26% of offline gamers did similarly. The AP/AOL survey also revealed that, of those who play online games, almost one in five said they had formed real-life friendships or relationships with those they play with online, showing the use of gaming as a social activity, even when playing remotely against others."

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  1. How do you define games? by Bongo+Bill · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many of these games are Solitaire and Minesweeper, or on Flash portals like PopCap? These are very clearly games, but to what extent can they be compared to what the average Slashdot user thinks of as games (Halo, Metroid, Final Fantasy, GTA, &c.)?

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  2. 9 out of 10... by truthsearch · · Score: 5, Funny

    9 out of 10 Americans hate the tenth for telling them about useless surveys.

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