Always kind of weird to see averages split up like that, in seemingly arbitrary fashion. As if a 35 y/o has more in common with a 19 y/o than a 36 y/o (although I'm sure most 35 y/o would love to see it that way :D).

And what if the majority of players would happen to be e.g. 50, but their percentages would be drowned out by a majority of 55+ y/o not playing games?

36~49 immersed in work/family/kids
50 >= kids are on their own, can finally play like 20 years worth of games/retired old ass people.

When I'm old af and hopefully retired, I'll probably be playing some fun, easy 4D pokemon.
Who knows, maybe the new pokemon game is a reverse pokemon where we enter Kanto as humans and pokemon catch/train/battle human beings.

My 68-year-old dad mostly enjoys first-person shooters and war games, which always amuses me, because he was a hippy in his youth and the only one of his brothers not to join the military.

That said, it's probably his fault for getting me into gaming in the first place, buying an Atari 2600 when I was a nipper, which he played on more than me. He was also frequently glued to Harrier Attack on the Amstrad CPC464, when I had one of those.

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I found them and I'm keeping them!
That, plus it's interesting to see how people's views and preferences change over the course of a lifetime.

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About 70. It's true. Look it up.

Does anyone really believe that anymore?

We gamers should 'work hard' on the next generation and stop wasting time with our stupid video games. Otherwise that average age is just going to keep going up.

Then again, there must be a massive generation of mobile phone players just around the corner since they 'really work hard' on the next generation in those developing countries.

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Definitely. People who are unfamiliar with videogames and prejudiced against them often tend to think stuff like that, at least over here. It's not that they don't know that adults play games, too, they just regard it as immature behavior. Then again, I'm not sure that this will change anytime soon, as it's common for people to belittle things they don't understand (and it doesn't necessarily have to do with age or generation).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/722259/world-gamers-by-age-and-gender/ (from 2017)

https://www.gamesparks.com/blog/the-average-gamer-how-the-demographics-have-shifted/ (also very interesting)

I'm from the late Atari/Intellivision/NES generation. Gaming is just something that you tend to come back to, no matter what your age is.

My dad's been a rabid Civ/Settlers/Patrician fan since their inception. Before that, it was Sierra and Microprose games. He was never a big console gamer, that was more my mom's thing, as she enjoyed things like Tetris and Dr. Mario.

I'm never surprised to learn about elderly gamers either, because video games have been kicking since the 70s, and some people probably never walked away, or the guys/gals that were in the classic arcade era.