Close of a French household on two is a player with 2 players on average per home. The PC is voted by plebiscite by the players who are 70% to use it (including 30% for the play on line). 20% of the players state to play on the portable telephones and PDA. As for the play on line, it allures 23% of the players. Always mainly played on a computer, only 4% of the players play on line on console of the type Xbox Live or PS2 Online

Popularity of pc video games

Deck prize list

More than one player out of 10 is older than 10 years... and 40% of the players are women. The players are 25 years old on average and are mainly men. The average player thus remains old in spite of integration this year of all the unbounded players of age. This average is particularly boosted by the players on PC and portable telephone - Only, the players on consoles and handheld consoles are younger (respectively 21 and 19 years). It is also important to stress that 12% of the players have less than 10 years! But nearly a quarter of them is 35 years old or more.

Gamers profile

Which is the profile of the player? Less "hardcore" and more open on his/her friends and his family Even if the players play on average 5h45 per week, the player hardcore is minority: almost half of the players play less than 3 a.m. per week. This important average is pushed by the years which pass more 6h to be played. The portable consoles and the play on line are also particularly played a lot - almost 7h on average per week. However, the old players of more than 15 years have a social life developed apart from the video games. 57% of them spend more time with their friends and their family that to play video games. More of the third to half of them listen to music, walk, look at television, surf on Internet, read books, look at DVD and make sport.

Players recreation

12% of the French hearths intend to buy a game console from here March 2007 More than one household out of 4 with the intention of buying did not make its choice yet.

With the intention of buying in the upcoming 6 months