Anyone have teens with no video gaming?

[Anonymous]

How prevalent is video gaming with teens these days?

Will kids raised without any kind of video game system be completely out of step with their generation?

[Anonymous]

My two teens, 18 and 16, boy and a girl don't video game almost at all. DS played a Wii game, once in the last month, and not for previous 4 years. DD never did.

[Anonymous]

I have two teen girls. One plays on occasion (maybe twice a month). The other has never touched the thing. My assumption is that video gaming is much more prevalent among boys.

[Anonymous]

While my DS has an old xbox system, he rarely has played on it. But he does enjoy playing games on his phone. Does that count as "gaming"?

[Anonymous]

DS 13 plays free games on family desktop and on his phone 1-2 hrs/day and maybe more on weekends, especially if he visits someone who has a console. We refuse to buy a console, much to his dismay. He is very social and would rather play with friends than anything, but most boys just want to stare at a screen. He finds friends to play with online - his favorite past time. He would probably do this more if we had a console (many of his friends have them). So he must play free games on the computer.

To offset the "consumption" aspect of gaming, we provide him with a midi keyboard and other accoutrements for creating electronic music, which he loves and spends as much time on as gaming. As well, we have provided him with a tutor so he can learn some programming basics, which seems more creative than consumptive, staying within our theme.

[Anonymous]

Kids are 17.5 (boy) and 15 (girl) and we have never had a video gaming system. It probably put my son a little out of step with his peers but we were very much against it. We did allow some ipad/iphone games (Angry Birds, that sort of thing) but nothing else.

[Anonymous]

There are lots of teens who do not play a ton. And it is more of a guy thing which from a tech standpoint is not great. There are some very good games that appeal to both guys and girls that are not war or shooting themed.

But, there is no doubt that video games are a, if not the, primary entertainment focus. A lot of music and pop culture are coming out of the gaming industry. Whether it continues to keep growing will be interesting to see. Some games are now being developed with an eye toward televised professional competitions. Just punching up Steams numbers for CS Go and there were, at that minute, just over 475,000 people currently playing the game. It would not be surprising to see high school and college teams in the next few years.

I do think gaming has made my two youngest, 16 and 19, more tech savvy. They both "built" there computers with gaming in mind. They have several game systems which get used when friends come over but rarely otherwise. Somewhat surprisingly the 19 year old says there is not a ton of playing in his dorm. To much other stuff to do.

[Anonymous]

I have 3 teens, 2 girls who don't play at all and can't understand why their brother is on his PS4 non stop. I didn't get it either until I went downstairs and spent some time watching. He has a mic and socializes with his friends while playing bright, fast moving, realistic shooting/hunting games. I am a woman in my 40's and I get the attraction now.

[Anonymous]

I have 3 teen girls who have no interest in video games.

[Anonymous]

We've got a Wii, a Kinect and Xbox One. My 14 yo DS would play all day, every day if we'd let him. However, we limit it to weekends as long as he keeps his grades up. He hasn't played since October when his grades dropped (he's got an IEP and a lot of support so he is choosing not to do his work and turn it in on time). My 7th grade DD doesn't care to play games. My 6th grader likes to play games and we limit him to weekends.

[Anonymous]

My two teen sons play games on their computesr, but we don't have any gaming systems, x-box, etc. Our teen daughter never plays.

[Anonymous]

None in my house at all for 2 out of 3 of our kids. We learned our lesson with older first child and got rid of them. My kids read constantly, play outside, sports etc...
Out of step with what exactly??

[Anonymous]

I think it is very prevalent with teen age boys.

My daughter (13) is not interested in video games at all... (maybe twice a year she'll play those xbox music dance games) My sons (10) & (7) would play non-stop if we allowed them. We limit them to 2 hours on weekends...

[Anonymous]

Yes. Not an issue at all.

[Anonymous]

My 14 year old DD isn't interested whereas her 12 year old younger sister loves to play games on either the computer or the new Nintendo the kids got for Christmas.