lol gamefaqs forums disagree with these studies

How did they define gamer? I mean.. I could easily see an open definition including like 70% of the young-to-mid adult demographic.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it non-gamers.

the studys crap; any one who played Rockband,halo,gutarhero regularly consider them selves a "gamer" its the new cool thing kids being a "gamer"... fucking bandwagon

Personally, I'd like to see this information relative to how many hours a day the "gamer" spends gaming.

Perhaps in the form of a pretty graph. Or many pretty graphs.

@falinter:

Who is that directed towards, non-gamers reading Destructoid?

If the NARP's I've been to are any indication, I would say gamers are pretty social individuals... and very drunk individuals.

This is regardless of who they polled for this study.

I call bullSh!t. I agree with "Half left" that most gamers probably lie on surveys. I would like a Destructoid survey that first brakes down the type of gamer: Casual, Core, Hardcore. Or something like that.

Man, join the Dtoid NY group. Most of us hang out constantly, and we party HARD.

I swear, like every other weekend is a NARP. I need to hang out with them more often though.

I am getting married in 2 weeks....

The Cinema's hardly the most social environment, the idea of going to the effort of dressing up and heading to the multiplex for a quiet yarn instead of getting pissed with mates would say the opposite especially on a regular basis....

Plus...... Marriage? What? Any Mess can get married, it hardly implies that you are indeed a social champion! Its settling down, and at a young age it could be considered to be one of the most anti-social things you can do! Settle down, drop your friends and happily wave goodbye to awkward nights out at the club standing in the corner sweating for some attention. Eventually you get a girl and cling on for dear life! And the longer you hold onto your MRS the longer you can avoid such awkward situations again...... plus offering you that one person to talk to when you do venture your greasey ass out the door so you dont feel the urge to communicate with anyone else again.

In truth this survey proves nothing, its usually only the ignornat or socially over active that dont bother with gaming. Look around my man everybody plays games now, even if its just an exhibition match in FIFA every now and then.But that doesnt mean the stereotype will ever truelly go away, it'll be kicked around for generations to come, like the Irish drunk thing...... which I'm quite happy to self perpetuate! :D

how is that possible...

It's very likely that the majority of people they polled are people who only have Wii Fit and think it makes them "gamer", but regardless it definitely helps with the gamer public persona.