B
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55%
55% -- share using gaming to socialize with friends for US gamers (2020)
55% of US Americans who played video games or watched esports during lockdown use gaming as a way to socialize with friends.
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Value
55%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2020
Entity
Sample Size
500
Geography
US
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Savanta
Primary
Tier A
https://savanta.com/knowledge-centre/view/gaming-and-esports-an-escape-from-reality-for-americans/ ↗
Source Article
Gaming and esports an ‘escape from reality’ for Americans - Savanta
Fans of video games take several forms – there’s the hardcore gamers who play into the night, those who treat gaming as a competitive sport, and there’s some who just play occasionally e.g. when a brand-new game is first released.
more than half (55%) have spent more than $50 or more on games since …
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Savanta
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Methodology
Savanta lockdown survey
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Industrysports_fitness
RegionUS
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US gamers: 55% share using gaming to socialize with friends. Source: Savanta (2020). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/gaming-socialize-friends
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/gaming-socialize-friends" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>55%</strong> -- share using gaming to socialize with friends for US gamers<br><small>Source: Savanta (2020) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/gaming-socialize-friends" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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