Competitve sense declines with age, says study

Research firm Quantic Foundry has recently released the results of a survey they conducted with over 239,000 people that play video games. It revealed some interesting results related to competitive sense in games. The data shows that competitiveness declines most with age, rather than gender, with the sharpest drop between the ages of 13 and 35.

There are some variations between male and female players. Women appear to lose interest in competitive games earlier than men, about 15 years earlier. The biggest gender gap occurs at age 22, which is when female interest in competitive games drops slightly more sharply than with men.

However, the biggest factor in competitiveness is age and things level out later, and by 50 years old the level of competitiveness is largely the same for both male and female players, albeit drastically reduced compared to the youngs on the left of the graph.

You can take a look at the full graph below: