People gaming for longer, ‘extreme gamers’ averaging 48 hours per week


Industry analysts are forecasting lower videogame sales this year, but people are playing games for longer than ever.

A new online survey of over 18,000 people by the NPD Group shows gamers in the U.S. spend an average of 13 hours per week at their PC, on their game consoles, or with a handheld device in their mitts. That’s up from from 12.3 hours in 2009.

So far, so mildly interesting, but the NPD also divided survey participants on how much time each spent playing.

They found a minority at the top, labeled by NPD as “extreme gamers”, who averaged 48.5 hours of playing games per week – close to seven hours a day. Oh, sure, mock all you want, but these are the zombie-slayers and robot-killers of tomorrow, and they’re more prepared than you for when it all goes tits up in the real world. Heroes, the bally lot of you.

[Via Gamasutra]

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