Category Archives: Market Research

For an update analysis for 2024, see: U.S. Gamers Prefer the Familiar. The “cult of the new” is the obsession with new titles, which makes hobbyist gaming much like the movie industry. The online site, Yucata.de, offers free online games with human players. Here are the plays averaged across 111 games, relative to when each game was first introduced to the community. You can see that a new game peaks in 3 months, then gradually declines to half its peak after 2 years, dropping only slightly after that for the […]

Update: See our most recent research, Most Played Board Games and Card Games. Researchscape conducted a series of one-question polls as background research to its survey of Kickstarter backers. In a poll conducted March 23, 2016, half the U.S. online consumers interviewed had played a game this year: 18% in the past week, 17% within the past month, and 16% earlier in the year. The other half had played in 2015 or earlier or couldn’t recall. How long has it been since you played a card game or board game? (In real life, […]