For way to long, the PC gaming market was for people under 20. Then it moved to people under 30, Then to under 40, then to under 50 and now under 60. Tell me it's not true, please! When the under 40 group started playing we could tolerate it because there weren't that many, plus we could destroy them in competition and make some money off of them. We never felt guilty about taking money from them. But now it is mom and dad playing! Are you kidding me?
I thought their income was for my PC gaming habit. I don't want to share! And I hate to say it but I could be online gaming against Grandma and Gramps soon. This must sure be a nightmare. Please wake me up, please! I will never mix energy drinks with booze again.
The hope is that this is just not true or a passing phase. Just a bad dream. Now lets take it a few steps further. The over 65 gaming crowd is growing. This can not be. What are they doing where I am playing?
I heard a shocking statistic about gamers over the age of 50 years. Currently they make up around 26% of the PC gaming market. The result of that is that the average age of a gamer jumps up to 34 with the old people taking up over a quarter of the market. They are not supposed to be here. Isn't there a bingo hall calling them over or a bowling team needing an extra member somewhere? They are supposed to leave our toys alone and get themselves a huge bike for their midlife crisis.
But 26%, say it isn't so! The only thing left for kids is some sort of cereal but I heard more adults are eating that again. Come on adults, leave us kids alone! Or was that teachers, sorry flashback there. Let's move on. So if 26% of all 50+ adults (and I use that term loosely) are gaming, are they the ones buying the games with the "INmature" rating? Get it Mom? Dad? Gramps? But sit down because there is more. Oh great, why don't you just shoot me now.
All the latest projections indicate that the over 50 and over 60 gamers (oh yuck, how can an over 50 adult be called a gamer, it makes me ill) will increase in numbers significantly over the next 10 years. Nursing homes and senior centers throughout the United States are now incorporating PC video games into the senior's activities.
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