Posted Apr 5, 2008 3:52 am PT

What about the 100M southerners that live in shacks and cant read or write, they play loads of games, they don't own a console or computer, but they still play with each other

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Posted Apr 4, 2008 1:11 pm PT

Everybody thinks they're a "gamer" now-a-days, however, as soon as you start mentioning some games(past & present), they give you a blank look unless it's Halo you're talking about. try again NPD.

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Posted Apr 4, 2008 10:16 am PT

These stats and reports are always off. They'll always skew the figures to favor whatever point they're trying to make. I frequently submit / complete survey's for NPD, and I can't understand HOW do they get stats for game play for 2 year olds.

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Posted Apr 4, 2008 9:57 am PT

so asking 20,000 people out of 303,000,000 nation wide gives an accurate number? hmmm dont think so.

from wikepedia:
Based on a population clock maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau, the current U.S. population, as of 17:04 GMT (EST+5) April 01, 2008 is 303,755,27

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Posted Apr 4, 2008 8:23 am PT

That 42 per cent still seems a little high to me. I think they're padding it.

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Posted Apr 4, 2008 5:51 am PT

That sounds more accurate. I saw the story yesterday and my jaw hit the floor in disbelief. It will be 10 years before we get to 72% penetration.

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 8:59 pm PT

Since we're all gamers i guess like the rapper Akon sayz......."We Taking Ovaaaa!!!"

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 8:37 pm PT

72% did seem high if your counting everyone in the U.S. that would mean we would have a lot of casual, closet gamers and you would have to count people who've played a game once, seen a game, or know someone who plays (maybe i'm exaggerating) but this does seem right and 6-44 is still a big group

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 8:27 pm PT

What that survey "correction" says is that they missed a lot of gamers. There are a lot of gamers aged 44+. So, that makes 72% a bit low.

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 8:06 pm PT

O well doesn't really matter what the exact percent is because I think we all know that gaming has become an extremely popular hobby.

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 7:53 pm PT

Let's be honest now.. if you aren't betwen 6 and 44, who really cares? Amiright?

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 7:21 pm PT

Uh. I kinda don't really see the importance of this poll. I mean it's nice to have a percentage number to refer to and all, but does it really matter?

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 6:51 pm PT

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 6:48 pm PT

yeah this would mean middle aged people and some elderly people play video games noooooooooooooooo! not going to happen. The NPD is about has accurate as bush assuming theres weapons of mass destruction in Iraq!

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 6:43 pm PT

At this point, I rarely entertain these polls. It's like FOX News, Glen Beck or those "anylists". These people get paid (a nice little chunk, at that) to spew stats that are rarely accurate. Sometimes, it's best to just 'unplug' from these little 'insider' groups. They're less often about informing us, and more often about the interests of their insider cronies.

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 6:16 pm PT

Ah who cares!

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 5:41 pm PT

I used to work for a market research firm...people please...this is about as accurate as the information gleaned in political poling. It's garbage. I am going to give you a number that "could" very well be as accurate as this. 37%. Seriously the data can be skewed on so many levels its ridiculous. Let's hear more about this so called "consumer-panel".

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 5:40 pm PT

Well, it's still a very impressive number. Besides, 6-44 is a pretty wide bracket of ages considering that's the majority of gamers right there.

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 5:34 pm PT

I still think if you wanna make games bad enough, you'll find a way.

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 5:23 pm PT

I suspected 72% was a bit of an inflated number. Still though, 42% of everyone thats enormous... Gaming has come a long way, I still wish we could go back to the golden age though. Lower development costs enabled a couple people with a dream to do big things, something not even possible it today's market.

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 5:14 pm PT

so is it 72% or 42%?

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 5:14 pm PT

Not that this changes much. 72 percent in that age bracket is huge.

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 5:08 pm PT

I thought this was gonna be about the 90% of online players doing so on pc...

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