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53% of gamers prefer single-player games (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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A new survey has found that over half of gamers prefer to play single-player titles.

According to Midia Research, this game mode is most popular across all platforms – particularly on mobile, with 58% of respondents saying they preferred single-player games.

The data from the survey was collected from Midia Research's Q1 2024 and Q1 2023 consumer surveys across the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Poland, Turkey, and South Africa.

Research found that older gamers were more drawn to single-player titles, with 74% of gamers aged over 55 choosing to play games solo.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is gamer defined here? I don't have access to the full report but apparently it mentions Candy Crush, so I wonder how the statistics would look like if you removed games like that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sure, and if you remove games like Fortnite, it would skew the numbers the other way. It strikes me as an arbitrary distinction.

But, I think what you point out is important, because based on the above replies it seems most people are interpreting this as their desire to play rpg games is what they are saying is more popular, when what is likely really happening is that there are just a lot of casual gamers playing CC type games.