Men in general also seem to play a wider variety of games while women enjoy playing puzzle games like Candy Crush and memory games on their mobile phones. Women and men also like different types of games, or at least to different extents: Most men prefer first person shooters, followed by role playing games and simulation sports games, while women’s favorite games are role-playing games, followed by first person shooters and simulation sports games. Men tend to play more than women: 41% of male respondents and 36% of female respondents respectively spend two hours a day gaming. Gamers below 24 years of age, however, spend more than 2 hours a day playing games. According to our research, American gamers spend an average of 1-2 hours a day playing games. This one is pretty obvious, but it’s interesting to see the exact numbers. We are happy to now be bringing the unique GX experience to macOS users. Ever since the launch of the Windows version during E3 in Los Angeles, we have been receiving many requests to add Mac support. Opera GX’s set of features is unique and relevant to every person who is serious about games. What this boils down to is that your machines are left with more resources for running games. The set of browser limiters, which includes a Network Bandwidth Limiter, as well as CPU and RAM Limiters, prevents the browser from becoming resource-hungry. Luckily, this is one of the areas in which Opera GX shines, on both Mac and Windows, offering a unique set of features that help resolve these problems.

We also asked about the technical issues people encounter while playing games.Īs it turns out, 49% of people experience some technical issues: 30% are troubled by network problems, 26% by memory issues and 14% run into CPU trouble. Opera’s survey shows the types of issues that US gamers experience.

Although not dominant on the market, Mac remains a relevant gaming environment. We started with operating systems and found that 14% of people play computer games on their macOS devices, while 82% use Windows machines, as you can see in the image below.

Recently, we conducted a representative survey in the US to better understand gamers, their browsing habits and favorite types of games, with some expected, and some interesting, results.

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