14 DAY TRIAL // Everyone knows about the Yogscast YouTube channel, UK's most watched, but not everyone knows that it has partnered with Green Man Gaming, an ever-growing digital retailer, in order to bring some neat gaming infographics.
Upon hearing the word "infographic," your brain's response is, no doubt, similar to that of a dog being asked whether he wants to go outside, "Oh boy, would I now?" Who doesn't like infographics? So let's see what this one has to say about the gaming world.
A staggering number of almost 65k surveys were completed in order to derive all this juicy information, and the results draw attention to some key motivations and habits of the so-called "millennials," as 70 percent of responses came from the 13-21 year old age range.
As such, respondents are predominantly PC gamers who are heavily engaged with YouTube as their main source of information about videogames, overall showing diverse gaming preferences.
They play across a wide range of platforms and they get their gaming info from an equally wide range of sources, from YouTube gaming channels to high profiles sites like IGN and GameSpot, but also from smaller ones and even lowly bloggers.
The super duper gaming special infographic reveals that half the respondents watch less than 1 hour of TV per day, and a quarter of them watch none at all, but they all play upwards of 7 hours of video games per week.
The survey also revealed that 78 percent of respondents watch Yogscast videos every day, with 43 percent of them doing it several times per day. The famous YouTube channel gained notoriety when becoming the first UK channel to reach one billion views, and statistics show that 60 years worth of viewing minutes are registered every day.
The statistics show that 27 percent of millennials are considering purchasing an Xbox One in the following year, with 19 percent opting for a gaming PC and 16 percent having their sights set on Sony's next-gen console, the PlayStation 4.
Their interests lie mostly with open-world games and role-playing games, which 50 percent of the surveyed individuals confessed they love, followed by strategy games and first-person shooters, and the millennials seem to be least interested in sports games.
Their purchasing habits seem to revolve mostly around sniping titles that are offered on sale (35 percent), with a sizable portion also stating that they purchase games when they discover something that they like on YouTube (29 percent), with 60 percent having spent more than $80 / €58 on games in the last 6 months, and 14 percent declaring spending over $250 / €180 over the same period.
