Some Gaming Stats...

According to ukie.org.uk  people in the UK in the age range 11 to 64 play on average 8.2 hours of games per week.

According to a dataset available on Kaggle, the most popular genre for video games is Action.

There are twelve genres of video game in the dataset. The table below ranks them from most to least common.

genre        number of occurences in dataset
Action               3316
Sports               2346
Misc                 1739
Role-Playing    1488
Shooter            1310
Adventure        1286
Racing             1249
Platform            886
Simulation         867
Fighting             848
Strategy            681
Puzzle               582

The different genres are not equally popular in different regions.

In the US the top five best selling games are:

game title                    genre
Wii Sports                   sports    
Super Mario Bros.      platform
Duck Hunt                  shooter
Tetris                          puzzle
Mario Kart Wii            racing

In the EU the top five best selling games are:

game title                       genre
Wii Sports                      sports    
Mario Kart Wii                racing
Wii Sports Resort           sports
Nintendogs                     simulation
Grand Theft Auto V        action

In Japan the top five best selling games are:

game title                                             genre
Pokemon Red/Pokemon Blue              Role-Playing
Pokemon Gold/Pokemon Silver           Role-Playing
Super Mario Bros.                               platform
New Super Mario Bros.                       platform
Pokemon Diamond/Pokemon Pearl    Role-Playing

Nintendo holds all five top slots in the US and Japan and four out of the top five in the EU.