BrutalTruth_
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damn kids today are stuck watching tikkity tok videos for hours so they don't have time to game.
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Millennials Spend More Time Playing Video Games Than Gen Z and Teens
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Deerock71
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TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Millennials aren't an untapped market.
Millennials was kids when the NES,MS, SNES,MD, GB,GG was out and were Teenagers when the PSX,SS,N64 was out and were young adults with the PS2/XBOX & GCN was out.
They was in their late twenties when the PS3/360 & Wii hit.
And were in their 30's with the PS4/XBO & Wii U.
Now in their late 30's, early 40's they're buying PS5/XSX & Switches.
As much as and maybe more than Gen X, they are the market.
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SirTerry-T
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SteelCurtain 59
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How long was your childhood if you consider the best moments in gaming to be in your childhood? Unless you're just so filled with nostalgia
SteelCurtain 59
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Younger millennials were also born in the mid-late 90s, making the market even bigger ( I honestly think the younger millennials are an even bigger part of the market imo)
Also I really don't understand how they think there's a generation "below" Gen Z that is in their teens. I'm pretty sure anybody that's 13 would be considered a young Gen Z (or the absolute oldest Gen Alpha, but there's no way their poll of "teens" is 100% 13 year olds
Haha ok buddy. Back to work. I never left. That's our point. I am management. We don't need to be in an office anymore.
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bobone
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I'm just mind blown people my age are averaging 3 hours of gaming every day.
Do they not have a job, house, wife, kids; are they just ignoring all the things it takes to be an adult?
If I got home from work every single day and said to my wife; I'll be upstairs for the next 3 hours playing a video game; I wouldn't have a wife for much longer.
Do they not have a job, house, wife, kids; are they just ignoring all the things it takes to be an adult?
If I got home from work every single day and said to my wife; I'll be upstairs for the next 3 hours playing a video game; I wouldn't have a wife for much longer.
TheInfamousKira
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Fuck yeah, my generation is hopeless and depressed, barely kept in check by piddling hand to mouth paychecks and antidepressants in conjunction with becoming a symbiote with our couches while endless streams of escapism flow into our brain until It's time for an unrestful slumber atop the head of another mundane period of time wasting, until we can go back Home and waste time in a slightly more sugary flavor.
That's today's motivational kernel. Stay in drugs, don't do school. Look both ways before running someone down on the street, etc.
That's today's motivational kernel. Stay in drugs, don't do school. Look both ways before running someone down on the street, etc.
Edgelord79
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I’m a team lead in my company and we’ve actually encountered the issues you were talking about as well. 6 of my 7 staff work from home as we are digital and there is little point to make them come into the office. Also with the employee market if we want to retain employees we need to be able to offer these things.
The option to work in the office is there, but offices are not as “maintained” as they were before covid. More workspace sharing less privacy now. I work for a large AEC firm and have corroborated the same things with equivalents in other firms in the same industry.
As an employer, not having a flexible work plan where it makes sense means you didn’t learn anything from the pandemic.
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Phase
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Exactly the same for my sister's two daughters. It's really sad actually. Just scrolling 4-10 second clips forever.
Phase
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When I was working 60-80hrs wks a few years ago I was able to get about 1-2hrs average, and that was with a gf. I probably could have played more if my girl liked games, but alas. You just have to be efficient with your tasks throughout the day.
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nial
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Werewolf Jones
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Yeah I play video games at least 6 hours a day and don't have kids to distract me.
Griffon
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Thinking about it... it kinda make sense.
The single most entertaining thing I could do during my teenage years was playing video games. No distractions from it, no alternatives. No social media, no youtube and no streamers/influencers vying for my time.
I've become conditioned to pay proper attention to the games I play over long periods of time.
The single most entertaining thing I could do during my teenage years was playing video games. No distractions from it, no alternatives. No social media, no youtube and no streamers/influencers vying for my time.
I've become conditioned to pay proper attention to the games I play over long periods of time.
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Lady Redfield
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Astral Dog
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That's because they waste all that time protesting
Sojiro
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It always puzzles me that the millennial time frame is so fucking large. I was born in 82, and resonate more with the Gen X crowd than all the people born in the 90's, but whatever.
I can't imagine spending more time with TikTok or other social media platforms than games, but hey, whatever floats your boat. I guess we see why companies focus so hard on remakes from our teenage years, they know who to target.
Nydius
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That's just it, it really isn't.
Silent Gen was a 20 year generation (1925-1945), Boomers were a 18 year generation (1946-1964). After that, they seem to have gone to a 15 year standard. Gen X is 1965-1980, Millennials 1981-1996, Gen Z 1997-2012.
I think what makes it so different between X and Millennial is how much the world changed digitally within the millennial generation. As you've pointed out, someone born in 81/82 still spent some of their early years in an analog only world, at least in elementary school whereas a Millennial like my stepson (born 1992) has never known a time without a computer.
Alas, I've long felt like these generational labels are far too broad. My older half siblings are early Gen X and they are decidely closer to Boomers in their attitudes and beliefs than I am as a later Gen X'er. My oldest sister in law (born 1969) is the epitome of a Boomer Karen archetype. I've pissed off more than a few fellow X'ers by suggesting we split X down the middle and give the front half to the Boomers and the back half to the Millenials.
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SteelCurtain 59
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It obviously depends on what source you use for defining generations (as they're rather arbitrary start-end points), but generally all generations are roughly the same length in years, usually ~15 years
like based on the source below
Silent Generation 1928-1945
Boomers 1946-1964
Gen X 1965-1980
Millenial 1981-1995
Gen Z 1996-2015
I've seen places where millenials stop at 94, some at 98, so it depends on your source,
Also that always how generations will work, they're arbitrary grouping which have some vague similarities based on certain events (9/11) or technologies (home computers, internet etc.) affecting us during our younger years, but when you're close to the edge of a generation you're going to relate just as much, if not more, with somebody in a different generation, being born in 93 I relate more to the older Gen Z (late 90s) than the older millennials (early 80s). They're more for historical context of a general idea than actually something that's supposed to affect our everyday lives, and like they definitely shouldn't be used for mass generalizations like how people constantly blame boomers, millennials, and now zoomers, for all of their problems
EDIT: I agree with you on the not understanding being on social media more than games though
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Neo_GAF
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gaming has never been better.
f2p, roms more easier than ever to download and even better: you can still play old shit in a legal way on so many platform.
i remember being interested in sonic 3 back in the day and only one friend had a mega drive.
he did own the game.
we went to 3 different rental shops to finally rent the game over the weekend, only to play it during the 2 hour window when his parents allowed us to hook up the system to their tv in the living room.
we had planned that for one week during schhol only to play the game for 2 hours.
nowadays 10 year olds can watch hardcore p*rn on their smartphones without moving an inch.
Drizzlehell
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Just wait for those GenZ-ers to hit their thirties. They're gonna want to escape the reality of their shitty lives too, lol.
Lucifers Beard
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Not surprised. They’re either too busy scrolling through social media or watching playthroughs of games rather than playing through themselves.
Wildebeest
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Gen Z don't want to end up like Geoff Keighley obsessed with AAA sad dad games at 40.
Raven117
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Knew it. Kids are stupid.
Raven117
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Gen X, bro. Still have that guns and roses tshirt?
MALpractice311
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I'm not surprised by this, having friends with young kids and having been a middle school teacher for a few years. Tik Tok is their entertainment, almost exclusively. If they have any interest in video games, they're not playing them. They're watching other people play them on Youtube and Twitch. Call me old, but I just don't get how watching other people play games is as engaging as actually playing them yourself.
Regarding the Gen X/Millenial split, I'm a firm believer in the the "Xennial" half generation (from 1977 to 1985), because older Millenials have very little common with younger millenials due to having had an analog childhood.
Regarding the Gen X/Millenial split, I'm a firm believer in the the "Xennial" half generation (from 1977 to 1985), because older Millenials have very little common with younger millenials due to having had an analog childhood.
RickMasters
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This....and cheap mobile games ...and occasionally fortnight (on a tablet or phone no less!) if their fav youtuber is streaming it. Gen Z are a different breed, and the exact reason I think consoles will become niche. they have next to no interest. and when they are interested in something..its not for long...they wont be playing big RPGS and dont care much for fancy 4K graphics and linear stories...they barely sit through a whole movie.
Whats kind of sad is that one day the gaming biz will cater to them, most of all. what kinds of gams they make to appeal to them will not appeal to....traditional gamers. I dont think Gen Z people even like that term.
GutsOfThor
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Fuck them kids.
Skifi28
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Sleepwalker
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I agree, I'm a younger milennial (30, born 1992) and have little in common with people born in the 70s and 80s. I actually have more friends that were born closer to the 00 mark.
Games of Today
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A hippy child.
itsjustJEFF
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deadass cap, bet!
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Kacho
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Agreed. I'm technically a millennial being born in 82, but I have way more in common with the Gen Xers who listened to GnR and attended Woodstock 99 than I do millennial's born in the 90s that came to age when Angry Birds was the shit.
Fuz
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I'm X and my brother is millennial, and your statement is TRUE.
MALpractice311
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Same here. Born in 83 and I feel much closer to Gen X in tastes, attitudes, and experiences, than Gen Y.
Demigod Mac
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Being conditioned from an early age to a dopamine feedback loop on purposefully addicting social media apps will do that.
Thirty7ven
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Kids can’t hold their focus for long enough to play games. It’s tik tok scrolling all day everyday and YouTube. Kids spend more time watching streams of somebody else playing a videogame than playing. It’s already hard for older people to watch a movie or play a game without looking over to your phone every few minutes, how do you think it’s like for younger people?
I know people that as soon as the conversation dials down for a bit they pull their phones and start scrolling. Watching kids out in the open sitting around looking at their phones is normal, and they won’t walk anywhere without spending most of their walk looking at their phones.
It’s fucked up out there.
I know people that as soon as the conversation dials down for a bit they pull their phones and start scrolling. Watching kids out in the open sitting around looking at their phones is normal, and they won’t walk anywhere without spending most of their walk looking at their phones.
It’s fucked up out there.
Gorgon
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Why millennials aren't having sex
The numbers are in, and it’s official: The Millennials are having less sex than any other cohort of homo sapiens that has ever lived
nationalpost.com
Torrent of Pork
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Zoomers would rather be miserable on social media than have fun, news at 11.
_Ex_
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These studies always forget we exist. It's part of what drives our perpetual angst.
Shadowstar39
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40 something, gen Xer reporting in. Seems to be consistent with what i seen my son and friends play. He was all into Gary's mod, roblox, minecraft, then got into fortnite, Rocket Leauge, COD , pubg, and Siege.
I never got the appeal, as i stopped multiplayer gaming on Battlefield4, Quake3, UT, team fortress, and eq2, lotro, diablo2. The microtransaction world of mobile influenced shyte.
Oh and they would rather watch twitch than actually play most of the time which was just sad.
I have always preferred CRPGs (think Baldurs gate/Might and magic), JRPGS, SRPGS(ff tactics/disgaea/Fire emblem), Strategy games (CIV, Homm3, Homeworld), Action Adventure(Castlevania, Zelda, GOW), Fighters (Mortal Kombat, soul calibur), Racing (NFS, GT7), FPS(borderlands, BFBC, Half-life, Doom), Platformers (mario, crash, sonic), Stealth (MGS, Thief, Splinter Cell), Survibal Horror (Resident Evil, Silent Hill), over any of the crap fps/gaas, stuff of today.
Yet gen z and many Millennials, will eat up the "buy our gold to level up with real money" bs. If you are asking for real money, it better be for an expansion or new single player game. Always shocked me how most of them weren't into mario and zelda but loved pokemon (something I was too old for when that came out and still don't understand the appeal).
I never got the appeal, as i stopped multiplayer gaming on Battlefield4, Quake3, UT, team fortress, and eq2, lotro, diablo2. The microtransaction world of mobile influenced shyte.
Oh and they would rather watch twitch than actually play most of the time which was just sad.
I have always preferred CRPGs (think Baldurs gate/Might and magic), JRPGS, SRPGS(ff tactics/disgaea/Fire emblem), Strategy games (CIV, Homm3, Homeworld), Action Adventure(Castlevania, Zelda, GOW), Fighters (Mortal Kombat, soul calibur), Racing (NFS, GT7), FPS(borderlands, BFBC, Half-life, Doom), Platformers (mario, crash, sonic), Stealth (MGS, Thief, Splinter Cell), Survibal Horror (Resident Evil, Silent Hill), over any of the crap fps/gaas, stuff of today.
Yet gen z and many Millennials, will eat up the "buy our gold to level up with real money" bs. If you are asking for real money, it better be for an expansion or new single player game. Always shocked me how most of them weren't into mario and zelda but loved pokemon (something I was too old for when that came out and still don't understand the appeal).
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Shadowstar39
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Your a Gen Xer like me
HazukiSensei
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Really? Im a millenial and I played/bought more games when I was young and living with my parents than I do now lol
