{"id":4969,"date":"2009-12-04T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"82-of-us-kids-are-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4969-82-of-us-kids-are-gamers","title":{"rendered":"82% of US kids are gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report posted by global market research company The NPD Group roughly 82% of children aged between 2 and 17 in the United States are gamers. This amounts to 55.7 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Within this demographic gaming is most popular among those aged 9-11 (roughly 12.4 million) and least popular among 2-5 year olds. 51% of all &lsquo;kid gamers&rsquo; play online.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-14 age group spent the most time playing games &ndash; spending roughly 10.6 hours a week on their consoles or PCs, with males aged between 9 to 14 being &ldquo;more inclined&rdquo; to play online. In addition to females, teenagers between 15 and 17 were &ldquo;most likely to report spending less time gaming and playing online this year versus last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decline in teen usage of video games is likely due to diversifying, maturing interests, which translates into stiffer competition,&#8221; postulated analyst Anita Frazier, adding that the data suggests parent-imposed time limits, more school work, activities, and other forms of entertainment &#8220;may be contributing to this dip in older teen engagement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With regards to what these children are using to game on NPD reported that on average each respondent used 2.5 dedicated gaming systems or devices, with those between 9 and 12 using &#8220;about 3 system\/devices on average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report gives insight into gaming habits in the US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}