Is a typical dude, a gamer? (mainstream question)

MysticLTT · May 25, 2017

When you think of an average guy, is his favorite pastime, playing games or do non-gamers still outnumber like they did in 2000? In real life I meet a lot of people who never heard of games or own any sort of meaningful hardware, maybe a laptop for Netflix and email, they work, make money, go out with the boys etc., but online, it looks like everyone is a tech gamer type.

divito · May 25, 2017

I would say it's probably fairly even, depending on how exactly you classify it. If someone primarily has sports as a hobby, whether league or high school etc... does playing a game once or twice a week with buddies constitute a "gamer?" What is the threshold that constitutes a gamer? Once that's defined, it's probably fairly easy to figure it out.

MysticLTT · May 25, 2017

12 minutes ago, divito said:

I would say it's probably fairly even, depending on how exactly you classify it. If someone primarily has sports as a hobby, whether league or high school etc... does playing a game once or twice a week with buddies constitute a "gamer?" What is the threshold that constitutes a gamer? Once that's defined, it's probably fairly easy to figure it out.

A non-gamer, someone who never played a video game, except maybe as a child, and don't have a way of doing it, don't buy the hardware. I'd say 80% of my acquaintance are hard non-gamers, which makes me feel like a sleeper agent, I only come to forums to enjoy tech talk.

yathis · May 25, 2017

6 hours ago, MysticLTT said:

When you think of an average guy, is his favorite pastime, playing games or do non-gamers still outnumber like they did in 2000? In real life I meet a lot of people who never heard of games or own any sort of meaningful hardware, maybe a laptop for Netflix and email, they work, make money, go out with the boys etc., but online, it looks like everyone is a tech gamer type.

What age demographic?

Dude · May 25, 2017

Nearly all of my friends are at least casual gamers, they love FIFA and Call of Duty and to be fair, who doesn't? So for me, the average guy is a gamer. That being said, I'm surrounded by gamers, so it would seem like most guys are gamers, however, that isn't always true. Go to any gym and you'll find that, at most, half of them play games. They're usually too busy either working out or with their jobs or take other interests, like I do.