In Brazil, women have a greater habit of playing digital games than men. However, more men are seeing themselves as “gamers”. According to the PGB Brasil Survey 2021, 72% of respondents said they used to gamble. Of this total, 51.5% are women and 48.5% men.
However, when asked if they considered themselves’PlayersOnly 61.6% said yes. Among the men, 65.8% identified themselves this way. Among women, the number has decreased to 57.5%.
In the digital gaming environment, the term gamer is used to always play, or even enter contests and earn money from them (either by broadcasting their matches online or participating in tournaments).
The survey also draws that 78.9% of people say digital games are among their greatest forms of entertainment. 68% are the main source of entertainment.
Respondents who Play every day 45.6% of the total. 20.5% play between three and six days a week, and 14.4% at least once a week.
The survey also showed that Players between the ages of 20 and 24 account for 22.5% of the totalto. Then there are those in the age group from 25 to 29 years (18.6%) and then from 30 to 34 years old (16.7%).
Curiously, Young people between the ages of 16 and 19 were the lowest, at only 10.3% of the total. Those between the ages of 35 and 39 account for 12.9% and those between 40 and 49 years old account for 12.2%.
According to the survey, 41.6% of respondents play on their smartphones. 25.8% already use video games; 18.3% computers; 9.2% laptops; 2.2% on tablets and 2.9% on smart TVs or other devices.
However, these numbers change according to the gender of the player. Among women, 62.2% play on smartphones; 40.4% play computer and 38.1% play video game.
Men prefer the video game: 61.9% play there. Then comes the computer at 59.6%, while the smartphone appears at 37.8%.
Responders About the environments they use to play, 97% mentioned their home; 28.4% other people’s homes; 15.5% play at work and 13.7% play in traffic or when they are moving somewhere. Only 5.3% mentioned environments such as residential homes.
Normal x Hardcore games
According to the survey, preferences change when profiles are filtered.
Among the “casual players” 55.8% are women, 36.2% are between 16 and 24 years old, and 58.3% use a smartphone as their preferred platform.
However, just because they are a “regular player” does not mean that they play a little: 29.7% said they play daily in sessions of up to one hour.
You are “Hardcore PlayersIn this group, however, they play more. 55.4% said they play every day, in one to three hour long matches.
In this group, men are the majority: 52.9% of the total. 37.8% of them are between the ages of 25 and 34 and 31.2% of them use the smartphone as their preferred platform.
Scanning also set that 46% of players consider themselves white, 36.7% brown; 13.6% black; 2% yellow and 0.6% original.
Is the total, 34.4% live with their parents; 30.9% live with their children; 20.2% live as a married couple without children at home and 10.8% live alone.
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