Tue, Aug 03, 2010 | 22:14 BST
Report – Games account for 10% of online use in US
A new report issued by Nielsen shows Americans spend 10 percent of their time online playing games.
According to the report, online gaming made up 10.2 percent of time spent on the Internet in 2010, which was up 10 percent over 2009.
Compared to last year, online games “overtook personal email to become the second most heavily used activity behind social networks” which accounted for 22.7 percent.
Converted to millions of hours, monthly time spent on gaming came in at 407 million hours.
Funnily enough, the sector users spent the most time in – 34.3 percent – was in the “other category”.
Call it “other” all you like, Nielsen. We all know what it is: Mommy and Daddy pictures.
Thanks, GP.
12 comments
#1
CaptPierce
03/08/10, 9:27 pm
And by “Mommy and Daddy”, I am going to be a naive moron and guess porn, right?
#2
Redh3lix
03/08/10, 9:34 pm
That pic of a VG247 staff member I presume…. Stephany? raawr!
#3
LOLshock94
03/08/10, 9:47 pm
is that nick frost????
#4
Tallon 4
03/08/10, 9:56 pm
Pregnant and fixing the PC. Nice job!
#5
LOLshock94
03/08/10, 10:06 pm
wait thats a women
#6
Stephany Nunneley
03/08/10, 10:18 pm
OK. Pic changed to something more palatable.
#7
Stephany Nunneley
03/08/10, 10:20 pm
@5 NO. It was a very large man is all.
#8
Grimrita
03/08/10, 10:20 pm
haha love it
#9
LOLshock94
04/08/10, 12:51 am
awwwwwwwwwwwww please put nick frost back on old people arnt as funny as they were
#10
revsoul
04/08/10, 12:53 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you for changing the pic.
The first one was….. disturbing.
#11
LOLshock94
04/08/10, 12:56 am
3 men 1 hammer now thats disturbing
#12
DaMan
04/08/10, 6:12 pm
‘other’ is way too low on that list, it must be like 70% really.