Xbox 360 Gamers

Xbox 360 Gamers

Fall largely into 7 th and 11 th grade categories. More boys (68%) than girls (32%) use Xbox 360. The Xboxers play computer games almost as often as Xbox 360 games (79% also play computer games, while only 58% use Wii, with slightly less using Playstation 2 (49%).

In a separate survey just for Xbox users, the fifteen year olds were the most interesting respondents. More than any other age group, they don’t want their parents to know what they are doing while gaming (10% of the respondents). Most teens indicated that their parents can know what they are doing (in the 80% range for all by the 13 year olds who said that they hadn’t thought about it before [44%]).

More of the fifteen year olds reported that their parents had talked with them about safe gaming than any other group. Across the board 90% said that their parents were not using Xbox family controls, but about 10% of all other age groups said they didn’t know for sure. And 4% of the fifteen year olds set them themselves. Between 25 – 30% of the 14, 15 and 16 year olds said that their parents monitor their play, generally when they swear too loud and parents can overhear them, or by looking over their shoulder casually. 62% of the fifteen year olds say that their parents know that Xbox 360 is interactive and are okay with it and 31% said that their parents just don’t care. And many fewer fifteen year olds use privacy settings on Xbox than their older and younger counterparts do.

Call of Duty was the overall favorite for all age groups other than the 13 year olds, at 56%, but particularly attracted the fifteen year olds at 75%. The thirteen year olds like Guitar Hero best (44%).

The fifteen year olds played Xbox 360 more frequently by half than any other age group, with 37% of them playing every day.