Are you a hardcore gamer?

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/study-extreme-gamers-play-48-hours-a-week/1400467

Think you're a big gamer? According to a new study from market research firm NPD Group, to be considered among the real hardcore you'll need to play an average of 48.5 hours a week -- nearly seven hours a day.

Even dedicated gaming blog Kotaku finds that "pretty extreme."

So-called "Extreme Gamers" average 29 years old, and -- perhaps surprisingly -- one-third of them are female. They're more likely to play on consoles than on the PC, and on average they've purchased 24 titles in the past three months -- a bill that could easily run over a thousand dollars. But dedicated though they may be, the Extreme Gamers are just a small minority: a mere 4% of the U.S.'s 174-million-strong gaming public.
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And though seven hours a day seems like a lot, it's only a little more time than the average American spends watching TV.

The figures come from a study which polled some 20,000 members of an NPD Group consumer panel. It broke the gaming population of the US into six other segments, including avid PC gamers (who tend to be older, and buy more games online) and young heavy gamers, the largest segment, who prefer portable systems like the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP.

Overall, time spent playing games rose from an average of 12.3 hours per week last year to 13 this year, the survey found. Both console and PC games posted increases, with the PC growing significantly faster than the consoles -- but portable gaming hours, on the other hand, dove 16%. The most popular platform overall, in terms of time spent, was the good ol' PC -- and if that surprises you, you probably haven't looked at Facebook lately.

lol the facebook hardcore gamer

wow, i buy a new game, get home, and get tired after 2 hours, then play the next day, but dang, nearly 7 hours a day?!, thats too much, they probably hate sunlight cuz there in there so long

Well, most likely the people in that study play WoW.

And I'd hardly call WoW hardcore...

Fuck I can only do that on All-nighters on the weekend, and not even 7 hours straigt!

That time could be spent doing other things like reading a book, playing outside, mast-ard on hotdogs, yeah that's it.

Mark_chaos wrote:That time could be spent doing other things like reading a book, playing outside, mast-ard on hotdogs, yeah that's it.

And looking for a job...which is what I'm doing.

. . . God damn Extremists . . .

SpaniardGamer wrote:. . . God damn Extremists . . .

i pitty them

TheLolzalol wrote:

JA!!

Where do they get the time?

soaringdive wrote:Where do they get the time?

They don't get it from anywhere, they just have no life.

How do they get money?

soaringdive wrote:How do they get money?

thats a good question. i know i dont play a game for 7 hours >.>

solidstudios wrote:

soaringdive wrote:How do they get money?

thats a good question. i know i dont play a game for 7 hours >.>

7 hours every day of the week >.>

i'm not hardcore or casual i can play and enjoy both kinds of games but i do prefer hardcore games the longest i've played is about 7 hours but it was the start of the summer holiday and i'd got super mario galaxy 2 it was so awesome i didn't want to stop playing it i beat it in about a week and a half with a total of 32 hours playtime

Bitch this is a mostly North American site, we are not South Korean.

Gyoza have you noticed there are a LOT of people NOT from North America......

Have you noticed that it was a joke...........