E3 08: E3 in numbers!
The offici𒀰al stats meet the GR realness. Can you tell the difference?
The average game player age is 35.
14 is the average number of horrible over⛦ 🀅chilled, free, boxed lunches the average games writer consumes during E3
In 2008 26% of gamers were over the age of 50.
13 is the average number of years adult gamer𝕴s have been playing computer or video games.
74% of these have never known love.
At E3 2008 48% of attendees smiled and nodded at people while surreptitiously trying to glance at their name badges to figure out why they think they ꧋know them.
59% of gam🧜ers pla꧑y games with other gamers in person.
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89%𝔉 of E3 attendees are op♔erating under the influence of alcohol after day one.
Best selling video game genre in 2007 is the action genre accounting fo💎r 22.3% of units sold.
18% of E3 attendees experience tummy trouble and are forced to spend 2% of their E3 time sitting on the toilet trying to stifle the cracking and popping noises emitting from their anus.
The average age of the most frequent game purchaser is🎀 40♌.
The average aඣge of the most frequent video game pirate is 16.
63% of parents believe video games are a positive par🦹t of their children’s🐻 lives.
63% of p﷽arent aren&r✱squo;t really aware of the kind of content contained in their children’s video games.
44% of online game players are female.
38% of these are men.
E3 is populated by: 14% attractive PR girls.ꦉ 27% marketing/sales men sweating in heavy wool suits. 9% TV men dragging camera equipment. 40% games writers. 10% clinic☂ally obese games writers.
37 is the number of times per day that the average games writer imagines hiꦑmself in coitus with a booth babe.
38% of E3 attendees don’t want to be here.
Jul 17, 2008