Sony Interactive Entertainment (abbreviated as SIE onwards) has published the results of a survey comparing the playing style of American gamers with their European, Asian and Japanese audiences.

Sony was present at this year’s CEDEC, a computer entertainment conference, and video games are part of that genre. Here, SIE presented the results of a questionnaire conducted in four regions, giving us the number of games played, playing time, trophy acquisition rates and some other data on gamers with a PlayStation 4 and/or PlayStation 5.

According to a tweet, on average, US gamers play the most games in a year (10.7), followed by Europe (9.6), Asia (8.2) and, quite far behind, Japan (5.9). Genki_JPN (from whom we have taken the data we have just heard) also translated further information from a presentation by SIE Senior Director Kenjo Akiyama, which was no easy task at a good 47 minutes. He also talked about the habits of PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR users.

With the Japanese, in general, playing few games a year due to JRPGs, MMORPGs and mobile gacha, it’s no wonder they play so few games, but the trophy data was interesting: Japanese gamers have the best rate of the four regions, with the US bringing up the rear in this regard. Asia and Europe have the most platinum trophies, with the Americans in last place again. On the other hand, the Japanese are savvier: they are more inclined to buy physical, disc-based editions of games, i.e. they don’t buy digitally from the PlayStation Store and are therefore able to trade in used discs. In contrast, US gamers are likelier to purchase games from PlayStation Store.

It’s interesting data, and who knows what this might do to Sony’s strategy. They have increased the price of the PlayStation 5 virtually everywhere except the United States.

Source: PSL