At the tail end of E3 last week, the Entertainment Software Association released its latest fact sheet for video game usage. Every year, the ESA releases a detailed demographic and trend report for
the video game industry, and every year, the average video gamer's age seems to go up. This year, the ESA claims the average age of gamers (both online and console) is 33, and that 38 percent gamers
are female (a number that hasn't changed for ESA in the last few years). Is the average gamer really 33? What gives? Wasn't it 28 not too long ago? Does this mean that younger generations aren't
interested? What if video games will stay pegged to Gen Xers and those Gen Ys that grew up with the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis? ESA's data comes from a survey of 1,700 "nationally representative
households."
Read the whole story at CNET's Alpha Blog »
