Britain has more online and console gamers than anywhere else in Europe, according to the 2009 UK National Gamers Survey.
- 73% of those questioned regularly play games
- Males 13-19 spend on average 11 hours per week playing games
- Boys as young as eight play games 7 ½ hours a week. The findings from
- 86% of girls play games
- 42% of people over the age of 50 now spend more time gaming than reading magazines
10% of gamers in the Netherlands admit to regularly making illegal copies of popular console games
- 4% of gamers in Britain admit regularly making illegal copies of popular console games
- In the UK, only 11% of gamers on social networks use them as their primary gaming destination – less than half that of the US
www.nationalgamerssurvey.co.uk
The 2009 UK National Gamers Survey (www.nationalgamerssurvey.co.uk) is part of a series of identical national nationwide surveys conducted by TNS and Gamesindustry.com in the Netherlands, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium and the United States amongst more than 13,000 respondents in total. The series is branded Today’s Gamers (www.todaysgamers.com). Five firms were partners in the survey’s launch: RealGames (Zylom), Keesing Games, RTL Group, GamePoint and SPIL GAMES. Both the national and international reports are available as of this moment as well as raw data for custom queries. The UK survey was conducted among 2,226 respondents aged eight and above from June to July 2009.