subject: The New Gamers: Mom, Dad, Gran [print this page] 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?
My parents income was supposed to support my gaming habit. It is not supposed to support theirs. I don't want to play my parents and just imagine the horror of playing your grandparents soon. This will be a nightmare. It is definitely time to wake up from this one. Nothing good can come from it.
Make it stop! Since you are handling this so well, I will not even discuss the over 65 PC gaming crowd, even that's way too much for me to come to grips with. So, please tell me all this is a very bad hallucination within a bad nightmare. Sorry, this is not a nightmare.
The scariest statistic that I have heard to date is that around 26% of all gamers are over 50. In years. With the old ones entering the fray the average age of a typical gamer has jumped up to 34 now. What are they doing here. They should be bowling, playing charades or bingo or something like that. It is supposed to be for kids, or those who missed out on their childhood and want to catch up. It is not food for your midlife crisis. Get that new bike.
Okay, so now they have taken up a quarter of the gaming market. Next up would probably be taking over kids cereal to leave us with nothing. Many adults are eating that now as well, so that has gone out the window. So if you see a 50+ guy browsing through the games at the game store he is quite possibly not looking for something for his kids. Great so now we are sharing that as well. It gets a little worse. Wonderful some more bad news. Can't wait.
Chances are that there would be a great increase in the number of over 60 gamers in the coming years. This is largely due to a move to incorporate PC video games into senior centers and nursing homes. These will become part of the senior's activities, which is aimed at helping to keep their brains active and stimulated.
