Report: Salt Lake City has most gamers per capita

"Florida brings in the rear." :lol:

Nice, Shame on Florida :lol:

I live in SLC (well, West Valley to be more precise but it's all the same) and it's not too suprising. I own tons of game systems from the 2600 to the Wii and most everyone I know here has a couple of game systems in their home. It's pretty easy to find classic games in the thrift stores here. This also might explain why the arcade scene in the Salt Lake valley is pretty alive when in other places around the country it isn't doing that well.

Exactly Kfoss, that's exactly my point. What's the critieria? What age bracket was the survey done upon? Was the same amount of people chosen from every city surveyed? Etc...

netolic: 23 percent of LA's 4 million people is still over 800,000 people alone. I'm sure the survey didn't account every single household. I'd like to know how they gathered their data. Since right now it's all misleading. I'd feel different if we were comparing similar city sizes to each other. But their not.

DAMN!!! Chicago missed the top 10 by 1! :evil:

Whhhaaaaa.... what do they classify as a "video gameing system" and how is that baised on per capita population?...32% of what for SLC... what population number?..the people there or the same amount for all cities across the nation..and how many were polled...and who was polled...its not im surprised im just tired of studies that dont list there controls

SLC: More gamer per capita than any other city Utah: One of the lowest violent crime rates in the country Hmmmm, that couldn't have anything to do with that whole thing about Mormons teaching the importance of having a close knit family, could it?

Sounds about right I live in utah I have owned all game consoles since the atari 2600. Everybody I know has at least one and It is not hard to not see one somewhere. Every kid I knew in school way back had one. There is a game shop of some type nearly on every corner and even super markets sell and rent games here. Mentioning you have a game system get an excited look rather than stares and I have no problem finding people to play wireless with the DS at cafe. and most are not mormans I am not.

I guess louisville did good. Go Cardinals! But baltimore dissapoints me

"that's actually surprising. most mormons are against any kind of violence. they must really go for the nintendo." well at least the adults dont like violence in games. im mormon and i play all kinds of violent games but its prolly cuz im a teenager.

Wow...Utah? You would think of a more urbanized area. Though Salt Lake is a pretty big city

Yeah...I'm shocked that the mormons are playing the games!... Pardon me whilst I play me a little God of War 2. SLC for teh win.

I feel ashamed to live in Milwaukee / 23. I mean, I have a gamecube, xbox and ps3 as well as a psp, so I'm trying to do my part!!!!! :)

Hey guess what im a mormon and i live in SLC and im not against violence i do partake of video games, i own a wii adn 360 including gears of war, zelda, lostplanet, and alot of other games.

So it's agreed then. The LAN party will be in Salt Lake City this year. Actually I'm more surprised by those store numbers than the city rankings. Wal-Mart on top is not surprising. Their reach in small towns and rural areas is unmatched. That Best Buy had twice the percentage that Circuit City does *is* surprising. I've always found Circuit City more accessible in the places I've shopped. If I didn't pass a Circuit City on my way to Best Buy, there was one near the BB store. Seeing those numbers, GameSpot's decision to post sales data from BB doesn't seem so absurd.

i thought mormans dont partake in living ie games

Is anybody else surprised by Florida having the fewest? It's a known fact that most senior citizens don't care about these newfangled things the young uns play.

Sweet, I live in Toledo, OH.

The more boring the city is, more console per homes will be, within this cold and nothing to do cities consoles are a necesity, the other cities have beachs and girls walking wearing short skirts, who needs a console over there?

Woot for Greenville/Spartunburg/Anderson County. Thats weird seeing that up there. Who would of known, upstate SC.

#9 Atlanta! Sweet!! I live two hours away in Augusta, but yeah it's close enough.

wow utah. what a joke lol

Rochester #19 baby : P

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damn i live in ft. lauderdale. second to last lol

They have a lot of gamers cause their "beer" is only 2%! Can't drink real beer, so all that is left to do is game. :P

The lesson here is that old people dont care for gol-derned fancy contraptions like game-playin' machines

Of course Ft. Myers doesn't have any video game consoles, it's all snowbirds and old people, except for East Ft. Myers which isn't the richest place on earth by any stretch of the imagination. I'm also wondering if these numbers are for the city proper or the metro, because if it were the metro then Detroit probably would have ranked higher. I grew up in suburban Detroit and basically everyone I know had a video game system.

THATS INSANE!!!!!

SLC? I live there and it's hard to believe that we beat out NY or LA.

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that's actually surprising. most mormons are against any kind of violence. they must really go for the nintendo.

Its FT. MYERS not meyers =P Hooray im in the itsy bitsy minority, nice to see a shout out for Naples though. If any of you have ever heard of Naples then yes the rumors are true, snowbirds during season, ghosttown during the summer. I would like to meet the other 14 people that play games around here =P

WOOHOO! Go Sactown. Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto / 28

Heres to Denver(my new hometown!) in the top 6-YEA!! LEEERRRRROOOOYY JEENNNNKINNNS!!

Hey!, Im one of the 19 percent in the Miami/Ft Lauderdale area!!! Wooooot!!!

Good for them.

although it is interesting, the stats aint enough to change anything

Oh and west jordan is not even more than ten miles way from slc so it's pretty much all the same area.....SLC 4 EVA!!!!

Hey whats up everyone ....well me being from west jordan utah and thats where i currently reside, i will tell you that yes...it seems like everyone around here is a gamer ...i mean people everywhere are starting to play games, and thats cause it's just not like it used to be way back in 86.....games are much different now ...so yeah especially in the winter time i mean EVERYONE!! stays indoors and plays games ....it's either that or go snowboarding or ski'ing and stay in the warmth of your home and play your xbox or playstation thats pretty much it and im glad they posted this because it's the truth

Woah, I missed over another stat up there...Green Bay/Appleton (WI) is toward the top, too! I was born in Appleton. Man, everywhere I go, gaming follows :D

Puppy0: EXACTLY Oh, and whoever denies that there are sexy girls in Utah hasn't met a mormon woman yet. Holy s#!t

Wow, SLC pwning in the owning department. Who woulda thunk? WOW, and Fort Pierce, FL getting in an article for something other than murders and crack!? Unheard of! Fort Pierce, FTW! Looks like I'm in that 20%, w00t w00t!

While this indeed somewhat surprising. It doesn't mean there are more people who have video game consoles in SLC than a city like say, NYC or Los Angeles. Since these 2 cities are larger than SLC (I'm not sure about LA though :p) Nonetheless, pretty interesting stuff.

I would like to see some statistical explanation of this. Most people posting really don't understand 'Per Capita'. Out of every 100 people living in the city, X number of people own a console. As someone else said, it's simple math! :) I bet if you look at the percentage of people under 18, percentage of people from 18 - 24, etc.. you will find a high correlation between the percentage of young people and the percentage of console ownership. For example, in SLC (my hometown) 23.6% of the population was under 18 years old in the 2000 census. SLC has the youngest population in the nation! I don't think this study has as much to do with the the cities nightlife as it does with the cities demographic.

Plenty of good looking women here too, sigma8... come by and take a look sometime. And yeah, I am proud of it.

with so much drama in the SLC...

Honolulu / 26 so much for that beach comment

meh, thats just in America