percentage of americans who play video games
More than 90 percent of American kids play video games. The number might be as high as 99 percent of boys and 94 percent of girls. Itâs not just kids playing, either â according to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), 58 percent of all Americans play video games, and nearly half of Americans over 50 play.
In what is described as the first nationally representative study in the United States on the subject, researcher Douglas Gentile of Iowa State University found that 8.5 percent of American youths ages 8 to 18 who play video games show multiple signs of behavioral addiction. For some kids, they play in such a way that it becomes out of balance.