Oct. 8 (Portaltic/EP) –
The Spaniards dedicate almost 660 hours a year to play video games and it is the users belonging to the Z generation (those born between 1995 and 2010) who access them more than three hours a day.
These are two of the conclusions reached Time2Play in a study that has recently been carried out, which analyzes how much time users in Spain spend on screens and what are the your worst habits around the use of consoles.
To carry out this study, the company carried out a survey last August, in which the 1,050 Spaniards who admitted playing video games regularly.
First of all, the report points out that, in total, Spaniards spend an average of 659.6 hours a year on video games, just under two hours a day, and non-binary people are the ones who spend the most time with them.
In total, this group of people dedicates 877.40 hours of their time per year to videogames, compared to 739.12 hours spent by men playing and the 550.87 hours per year played by women.
Although the average is less than two hours a day, the study also reveals the percentage of users who play more than two hours a day. In this sense, non-binary people continue to lead this ranking, with 27 percent, followed by 19 percent of men and 10 percent of women who play more than 180 minutes a day.
By generations, generation Z is in first place, where 22 percent exceeds three hours of gaming a day, followed by Millennials (12 percent), generation X (7 percent) and the so-called ‘baby boomers’ ‘ (5 per cent).
In the survey carried out for this report, Time2Play asked a series of questions to find out what players had come to do to spend time playing video games.
First of all, this web page asked if the players had they ever pretended to stay at home and being able to continue playing video games indicating being sick. In this case, 7 percent of Generation X and 5 percent of Baby Boomers said yes.
The percentages increase in the younger generations, since 30 percent of the respondents belonging to generation Z, as well as 23 percent of the ‘millennials’ confessed that they had ever done it.
Another of the scenarios raised by the survey is the one that refers to canceling plans or lying to friends to continue a game or continue playing a video game. Of the total of the players asked belonging to generation Z, 55 percent assured that they had ever done it, followed by the ‘millennials’ (23 percent), the generation X (25 percent) and the ‘baby boomers’ (15 percent).
THEY PREFER TO PLAY THAN SLEEP OR EAT
The study also raises what are the preferences of the players and if these have sacrificed some of their basic daily needssuch as eating or sleeping, in favor of continuing to play a title.
Generation Z also tops this list, as 88 percent confessed that he had gone to sleep late, even though he had to get up early, to continue playing. So did 84 percent of millennials, as well as 70 percent of Gen X users and 55 percent of baby boomers.
Eating occasionally is also not one of the priorities of a good part of the players, since 47 percent of the respondents belonging to ‘millennials’ said that they have forgotten to do it or skipped a meal on purpose to play to video games.
So did 37 percent of Gen Z respondents, as well as 29 percent of Gen X and 15 percent of Baby Boomers.
