Share of gamers skipping daily activities to keep playing in the U.S. 2021

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J. Clement,
Oct 11, 2022
During a January 2021 survey, 54 percent of responding gamers in the United States admitted that they had skipped sleep in order to keep playing a video game. Only 11.6 percent of survey respondents stated that they had missed work in favor of gaming.

Share of gamers who missed selected daily activities to keep playing a game in the United States as of January 2021

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Release date

March 2021

Region

United States

Survey time period

January 5 and January 12, 2021

Number of respondents

500 respondents

Supplementary notes

This survey was fielded by a third-party company with consumer panels in China, Germany, India, Indonesia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam. 500 responses were collected from each country for a total of 4,000 global responses. Survey responses were collected between January 5 and January 12, 2021.

Question: What daily activities have you missed due to playing a video game?

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