TOP 10 INDUSTRY FACTS


1. US computer and video game software sales grew six percent in 2007 to $9.5 billion %u2013 more than tripling industry software sales since 1996.



2. Sixty-seven percent of American heads of households play computer and video games.

3. The average game player is 33 years old and has been playing games for 12 years.

4. The average age of the most frequent game buyer is 38 years old. In 2007, 92 percent of computer game buyers and 80 percent of con More..sole game buyers were over the age of 18.


5. Eighty-five percent of all games sold in 2007 were rated "E" for Everyone, "T" for Teen, or "E10 " for Everyone 10 . For more information on ratings, please see www.esrb.org.


6. Eighty-six percent of game players under the age of 18 report that they get their parents%u2019 permission when renting or buying games, and 91 percent say their parents are present when they buy games.

7. Thirty-six percent of American parents say they play computer and video games. Further, 80 percent of gamer parents say they play video games with their kids. Sixty-six percent feel that playing games has brought their families closer together.


8. Thirty-eight percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (31%) than boys age 17 or younger (20%).


9. In 2007, 24 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.

10. Forty-nine percent of game players say they play games online one or more hours per week. In addition, 34 percent of heads of households play games on a wireless device, such as a cell phone or PDA, up from 20 percent in 2002.

http://www.theesa.com/facts/top_10_facts.php


Appeasing the minority of under 18 kids when they are not the primary purchasers of video games? This is a parenting issue and if the government has the itch to interfere it should do so with a parent education campaign and not try to pressure game creators, they have the freedom to create don't you think? Less..

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When I was a kid, I jumped off a huge cliff in Arizona because I saw Wiley E. Coyote do it.

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you got a point.

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These guys are onto something.. Billy The Kid, Ghengis Kahn, Hitler, Stalin were all inspired by Team Fortress 2.

jackholes.

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well its not the games fault its the parents fault for not monitoring thier own kids, just goes to show you how lazy parents are getting with thier kids.

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Sounds to me like poor parenting.

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lol yeah, there's always people that want to stop you from doing something fun - always in the name of the kids! The kids! One 5 year old moron burned his house cause he saw beavis and butthead do it, therefore control everyone! Fuck these fascist thought police

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snooze......snore...wake me up when something interesting happens.

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All this is, is a parent group looking for funding. Nothing more. I'm surprised the NAACP isn't claiming that video games are racist, and I'm surprised women's groups aren't claiming they aren't sexist.

Charlie Manson was inspired without Doom.

... We need to form an anti-parent group group that opposes the teaching children how to extort money from successful entertainment industries by using the media.

Who's with me?? Anti-douche-bag league? ADBL?

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how old is this? Video games, at least ones in America, have age restrictions for at least a decade now, no different than movies.

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Not the same as a 10 year old kid playing a game where he hacks someones head off or climbs into a care and mows down a bue que.......and gets rewarded for it.

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