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America’s gamer population is shrinking
The number of people playing video games in the U.S. is declining due to shrinking audiences in every gamer segment except for mobile and downloadable/online, according to the NPD Group. Gamer Segmentation 2012: The New Faces of Gamers, the market research firm’s latest report, estimates that 211.5 million people in the U.S. are playing video games in 2012 — that’s around two-thirds of the country’s population, but close to 12 million fewer (5 percent less) …




