When are you too old to have a games console ??

Dave Herbal said:
So, before you’re old enough to legally play most popular games then?


You put it in the living room with a second telly and play it while your lass is on the other settee watching whatever shite reality tv women watch.

Anyone still trotting out the line that games are for kids is clearly still stuck in the last century.
21st century gaming as as much a valid past time as watching TV or going to the cinema. This is backed up by the huge sums of money spent on both producing and buying games, and by the average gamer’s age, which was 36 last time I looked. That means there are as many 56 year old gamers as 16 year olds.
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I am very sceptical of those figures mind. I've just went and had a look and some of them reckon that women make up almost half of people who play some form of video game, which means they're almost certainly taking into account things like games on smartphones and on Facebook and the like.

Sony themselves reckoned that a few years after the PS3 was released, 90% of console owners were men aged 18-35: Sony: Males 18-35 Make Up 80% of Home Users.

If you're talking console and PC gamers, they are overwhelmingly male and overwhelmingly under 40, though of course, the over 40s group is growing massively and will continue to do so as people who were young teenagers when the PS1 was released are hitting their late 30s now.
 


Frijj said:
I am very sceptical of those figures mind. I've just went and had a look and some of them reckon that women make up almost half of people who play some form of video game, which means they're almost certainly taking into account things like games on smartphones and on Facebook and the like.

Sony themselves reckoned that a few years after the PS3 was released, 90% of console owners were men aged 18-35: Sony: Males 18-35 Make Up 80% of Home Users.

If you're talking console and PC gamers, they are overwhelmingly male and overwhelmingly under 40, though of course, the over 40s group is growing massively and will continue to do so as people who were young teenagers when the PS1 was released are hitting their late 30s now.
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Aye, it clearly includes all the candy crush housewives.
 
Got a zx spectrum when I was 12, played until I was 14, stopped cos I preferred being out and about with mates. Bought a pc when I was 24 to do coding on and someone at work gave me a copy of Doom and I've been gaming since. I'm 49.
 
I'm 45 and have a couple of consoles. I play Mario games with the kids and a couple of games for the PS4. Work hard and provide for your family and the rest is plain sailing.
 
43 here, still love my PS4. Gaming is something I'll do for the rest of my life, it's been a massive part of my life up to now, can't see that changing. It's like any hobby, if it makes you happy, then you do you.
 
Mainze said:
Play mine for a couple of hours a day normally. It’s literally the only way my brain switches off from life. Think I would have lost my marbles without it in the last few years :confused:
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Same for me. 44 and two young kids (6.5 and 22 months). Literally have no social life at the moment so xbox on (got one in the living room and the kitchen) and it's an escape of sorts.
 
I’m in my 30s and have been playing since I had a Commodore and My Little Pony bedroom wallpaper. Still going strong now.

You’re never too old!
 
jedi_toaster said:
Only just in your 30s if you were playing on a commodore.....unless your parents were mean and wouldn’t upgrade you (I’m assuming by commodore you mean c64 rather than the Amiga....).
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Ha. I did mean the C64 yeah. In fact, I think it might have even been a C19! I’m not certain but I remember Mr Puniverse and Kickstart were my favourite games back then.
 

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