NPD Group: 87 percent of online gamers play on PCs

by News Bot on Mar.12, 2009, under PC Gaming News

While there has been a huge jump in the number of online games played on various enabled game consoles, the PC still holds a huge majority chunk of gamers who play online. This is according to the results of a new survey of over 20,000 gamers by the NPD Group.

The survey, conducted last January, does say that PC gaming has shown a slight decline compared to the NPD Group’s previous study (Shacknews reports that the percentage went down from 90 percent to 87 percent) but it still overwhelms those gamers who play online with consoles. That percentage went up from 19 percent in 2008 to 25 percent in 2009 Younger gamers (ages 13-17) who played online went up from 17 percent to 22 percent while gamers in the 18-34 and 35-54 age bracket decreased their online gaming slightly.

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