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INTEREST: 90% of Crunchyroll Users Identify as Gamers

The title really needs to be changed... it's 90% of those polled, not 90% of all Crunchyroll users... :/ 10K turnout for a survey is kinda skewed though considering how many users they actually have...

Do 100% offline, retro game-players count as "gamers"?

I can't afford to keep up with modern consoles or current PC gaming rig requirements and have no interest in playing online but I still love playing Playstation 2 games and 10-to-15-year old PC games I buy from the thrift store.

I'm of the age where Playstation 2 graphics still look perfectly good to me for the most part because I'm old enough to remember when "3D" games were still just untextured polygons that numbered in the low hundreds at most that ran at single digit frames per second. Hard Drivin' was mind-blowing graphics when I was a teenager.

Ashley Hakker wrote:

90% of users identify as gamers, 46% female user base... But many people on the internet will still insist that women don't play games.

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With figures like this I wouldn't expect that stereotype of "women don't play games" to disappear anytime soon.

Do 100% offline, retro game-players count as "gamers"?

I can't afford to keep up with modern consoles or current PC gaming rig requirements and have no interest in playing online but I still love playing Playstation 2 games and 10-to-15-year old PC games I buy from the thrift store.

I'm of the age where Playstation 2 graphics still look perfectly good to me for the most part because I'm old enough to remember when "3D" games were still just untextured polygons that numbered in the low hundreds at most that ran at single digit frames per second. Hard Drivin' was mind-blowing graphics when I was a teenager.

It's a new console that most people I'd argue haven't bought into yet, and won't for a few years. I know I'm not getting one until there's actually a variety of games for it.

Well, apparently there's still a 10% that own Roku boxes or AppleTV's (do they stream CR?), or just chooses to watch it on their cellphone/tablets because they think that's where you have to watch all streaming.

Puniyo wrote:

It's a new console that most people I'd argue haven't bought into yet, and won't for a few years. I know I'm not getting one until there's actually a variety of games for it.

The Wii U and 3DS had a similar gender breakdown, and I'd like to think Nintendo is more female appealing than Sony and Microsoft are. I do remember reading the female 3DS owners spiked after Animal Crossing: New Leaf was released, though. Though with Animal Crossing now being a mobile title... sigh. Maybe when Pokemon Switch drops.

This infographic just leaves me with more questions. How was the survey conducted? That is a pretty good response. I never even knew about it. Is an active monthly user someone who watches at least once a month?

Other than the age demographic I pretty much felt before like I'm not like most of Crunchyroll's subscribers. I barely have time for hobbies period anymore. I usually try to make time for watching Detective Conan on Crunchyroll (or LoGH on HiDive) but, I can't even manage to do that every week. I haven't played games since I was a teenager and even then I hardly did. I don't even play mobile games now so it impresses me when I see adults whether they're in college or working that have the time for playing something. 48% polled can spend 20+ hours a week, 16% 40hrs? Sheesh.

Yeah, I watch anime and don't play video games. Nothing against them, I just can't get into them. Except for Ace Attorney and 2-3 mobage, but the writing in Ace Attorney got stupid after the fourth one.

Games should be developed without garbage politics, games should be developed in the vision of the creators whatever that is, they are not there to fulfill extreme leftists ort extreme conservatives progaganda of todays world.

This is the thing I don't get either. I remember when I played 20+ hours of games a week, and also had time to watch a few episodes of anime per day, but those days are long gone. And in those days, I certainly wasn't working full-time+. The only way I could possibly fit more than an hour of gaming into my day is if I sacrificed sleep, and I'm already not getting enough sleep, so yeah. It does really make me wonder how these people are able to find time and money to do that!

8 hours of sleep and 8 hours of work leaves 8 hours of free time a day, 16 on the weekend. That's about 72 hours of free time a week. 20 hours a week is pretty low, to be honest. Technically more for me since I watch stuff at work when its slow and have nothing to do.

Not really. Statistically, 10k is more than enough of a sample size for this. Just a few hundred would've actually been fine. Unless they totally screwed up on their polling demographic distribution, and I really doubt they did, this should pretty accurately reflect their entire user base.