Teenagers fed up with video games?

Piper Jaffray recently completed it’s bi-annual survey on youth habits and trends, which partly includes the topic of video games. 700 teens from 12 high schools across the US and Canada, along with an additional 1,235 students via online surveys participated. The results are, at the very least, pretty interesting.

While the results indicate a healthy 81 percent of student households are in possession of at least one video game console and 59 percent of students play regularily, the survey also asked if teenagers plan to change their game habits any time soon: A whopping 80 percent stated they won’t spend as much time and money on video games anymore. Almost 70 percent said their interest in video games in general is dying down.

So is this just a natural development or the result of more and more mediocre cookie-cutter games on the market? Too bad the article doesn’t say anything about the exact age bracket of the surveyed teenagers.
Piper Jaffray recently completed it’s bi-annual survey on youth habits and trends, which partly includes the topic of video games. 700 teens from 12 high schools across the US and Canada, along with an additional 1,235 students via online surveys participated. The results are, at the very least, pretty interesting.

While the results indicate a healthy 81 percent of student households are in possession of at least one video game console and 59 percent of students play regularily, the survey also asked if teenagers plan to change their game habits any time soon: A whopping 80 percent stated they won’t spend as much time and money on video games anymore. Almost 70 percent said their interest in video games in general is dying down.

So is this just a natural development or the result of more and more mediocre cookie-cutter games on the market? Too bad the article doesn’t say anything about the exact age bracket of the surveyed teenagers.