Joystick fans, their passion for controllers does not exclude a love of books or sport. And it’s quite the opposite. A recent study shows that gamers are far from popular clichés.
Their eyes glued to the screen, the controller glued to their fingers, yet these enthusiasts are more extroverted than they seem. Vincent plays video games competitively, a passion that does not prevent him from practicing other activities. “I very rarely see geeks who only geek, but there are definitely some, we shouldn’t hide it. If I take my own case, as a video game player, I also participate in competition or other , but when I’m not competing I do a little basketball, in the gym.”
“The image of the geek is false, it is that of people who are not very social who don’t leave their homes, who do nothing with their lives apart from playing, who have no culture apart from the culture of video games “.
“Video game players are more and more curious, they like to discover new things, to meet people like them.”
According to the annual video game barometer in France, gamers read more than all French people: 71% compared to 66%.
Players also play sports more often, at least once a month: 76% of them, or 6% more than the French average.
Video games are also about meeting people, 1 in 2 children say they have made friends thanks to video games. “There are people who find themselves a bit alone, who play online, so we can meet lots of people and make friends thanks to that” “Most of my friends I met through online games , notably a game called Valorant, where there is a voice and you can intervene with other people.
Increasingly popular games, more than 38 million French people say they have played a video game at least once last year, or 70% of the population.
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