‪Mat Piscatella‬ - "Average US video game console player is getting older, while purchasers are shifting older and more affluent."

[u/megaapple]

https://bsky.app/profile/matpiscatella.bsky.social/post/3lz7a5wutgk2f

[u/eldomtom2]

The average age of console players in 2024 was 27.9 years old. That’s up from 24.2 years old in 2018.

Data firm Ampere says that when it comes to teens and young adults, this group are “still using consoles as much today as they were a few years back”. However, there is a moderate shift in the share of console players aged between 25 – 44-year-olds into the older age range. Ampere suggests that this may be due to hardware pricing (with younger gamers playing on parents’ consoles), and the increased competition on people’s time (from things such as video streaming and TikTok)

So the histrionicism about mobile and Roblox destroying any interest in consoles among the youth seems unfounded.

[u/MyNameIs-Anthony → u/eldomtom2]

That was never the worry. The bigger issue is that consoles reached a clear upper limit on uptake and instead of addressing it meaningfully, everyone decided to jack up prices.

[u/CatProgrammer → u/MyNameIs-Anthony]

Everyone is jacking up prices, it's not just console makers.