72% seems incredibly unlikely considering the gamer market mostly consists of the 13-30 year old age group – and they alone don’t make up 72% of the population. So even if everyone in that age group played, you wouldn’t get near that figure.

I am in that agegroup and I know that not even half the people my age play games online, I think your source of statistics is somehow skewed – as if you ran a poll on a gamer website or something.

If your thought is that no one over the age of 30 plays games you’re blind.

We run an online gaming company. We host several games and are growing at a rate of over 250% a year. Our average player is in his late 30′s or early 40′s. We host several kinds of games – mostly first person military shooters (Call of Duty, COD – United Offensive, COD 2, Call of Duty 4) but we also run Flight Combat simulators (IL-2: Pacific Fighters, IL-2: 1946, Air Attack) and Poker based gaming and it’s all free. We host only PC based games, no console games what so ever. Our membership is growing weekly. Our site visits have gone from 100 a day 2 years ago to +/- 1000 a day now. Online Gaming is growing, and it is growing quickly. We currently have 70 dedicated members who play on our game servers and design customized maps and games for us. We are projecting that by the end of the year we will have approximately 125 active and contributing members and be close to 1/2 million page visits for the year.

If you would really think about it: The internet are becoming fierce in competition each day, as more people are realising it each passing day. Every newer generation will become fanatics over these type of things. From cellphones, games, computers, you name it!