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The average video gamer is now 36 years old — but Gen Alpha and Gen Z are most likely to play games.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 31 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Yeah the NES came out when I was five, and all my friends kids and my family's kids are out of high school now. You can casually tell people you play video games and no one bats an eye anymore. More often they'll ask you what you're playing. It's nice.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I find it odd when i go to a random barber who is 19-25 or so asks me what i like. I tell them video games, but it never results into anything, because to them videogames are usually fifa or call of duty. They have never even heard of the games i play. Compared to when i was like 10, everyone seemed to play the same games.

[–] Paranomaly@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

It was more niche when you were 10 so if people were playing games they were probably playing similar games. Plus, the people you were meeting probably had a higher probability of the same interests at that age

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