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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] 35 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I recommend taking a look at the full original article, the summary linked here may be a bit misleading. https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/most-gamers-prefer-single-player-games

This breakdown chart, in particular is very interesting. https://www.midiaresearch.com/storage/uploads/paragraphs/dbdbaba91de72cd615d8be1a0119cfca

Turns out that yes, slightly more than 50% of the people they surveyed prefer solo, but that's distorted by older people going HARD towards that option. Every segment below 45 years old skews slightly towards multiplayer, although the split between what type of multiplayer is pretty even.

Gotta say, I HATE that PvP is the preference across all age groups among multiplayer fans. Outside of asynchronous competition, leaderboards and fighting games I profoundly dislike realtime PvP.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Understandable if you grew up playing CoD/Halo, or even follow scrubquotes on twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well that graph sums my situation up. Got old, had a kid, don't have the time nor inclination to get all sweaty playing against those half my age.