wraggster
July 20th, 2020, 21:41
More than 214 million people in the US in 2020 play video games at least one hour per week, and three-quarters of all US households include at least one person who plays video games.
That's according to the ESA's 2020 Essential Facts About the Video Game Industry (https://www.theesa.com/esa-research/2020-essential-facts-about-the-video-game-industry/) report, which includes data from a July 2020 survey of 4,000 Americans conducted by Ipsos.
It concludes that 64% of US adults, and 70% of those in the US under age 18 play video games regularly, with 38% of all gamers falling into the 18-34 age range and 21% under the age of 18. 6% of gamers are 65 or older.
That makes approximately 169 million gaming adults in the US -- up from 164 million reported in 2019 (https://www.theesa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ESA_Essential_facts_2019_final.pdf).
By gender breakdown, the survey reports that 41% of all gamers in the US are women -- down from 44% last year and 45% in 2018.
The gender split seems to fluctuate evenly from year to year -- with additional data from the ESA shared with GamesIndustry.biz demonstrating that the percentage of women who play games in the US has bounced between 44% and 41% over the last five years.
And according to data shared by AbleGamers, there are around 46 million video game players in the United States with disabilities.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-07-15-three-quarters-of-all-us-households-include-someone-who-plays-video-games
That's according to the ESA's 2020 Essential Facts About the Video Game Industry (https://www.theesa.com/esa-research/2020-essential-facts-about-the-video-game-industry/) report, which includes data from a July 2020 survey of 4,000 Americans conducted by Ipsos.
It concludes that 64% of US adults, and 70% of those in the US under age 18 play video games regularly, with 38% of all gamers falling into the 18-34 age range and 21% under the age of 18. 6% of gamers are 65 or older.
That makes approximately 169 million gaming adults in the US -- up from 164 million reported in 2019 (https://www.theesa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ESA_Essential_facts_2019_final.pdf).
By gender breakdown, the survey reports that 41% of all gamers in the US are women -- down from 44% last year and 45% in 2018.
The gender split seems to fluctuate evenly from year to year -- with additional data from the ESA shared with GamesIndustry.biz demonstrating that the percentage of women who play games in the US has bounced between 44% and 41% over the last five years.
And according to data shared by AbleGamers, there are around 46 million video game players in the United States with disabilities.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-07-15-three-quarters-of-all-us-households-include-someone-who-plays-video-games