Skyrim Takes "Most Played Game of 2011"

By Steve Burke Published December 09, 2011 at 3:31 pm

Industry

In a recent gaming hours report put out by the gaming log website Raptr, we found that Skyrim beats out Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, Gears 3, and Bulletstorm in terms of the longest average gaming session (continuous sittings) and nearly dethrones MW3 for total hours played. The stats below show the most played video games of 2011, broken down into a few key categories and by hours. Here are the stats (more after th jump):

Average Playtime Per Person

Skyrim	24 hours
Modern Warfare 3	20 hours
Battlefield 3	17 hours
Dragon Age 2	16 hours
Gears 3	16 hours
Saints Row 3	15 hours
Deus Ex: HR	14 hours
Crysis 2	10 hours
Bulletstorm	9 hours

According to the report, Skyrim beat out all other major RPG competitors in total game play time by two-fold.

Average Session Duration

Skyrim	2.92 hours
Modern Warfare 3	2.2 hours
Battlefield 3	2.25 hours
Dragon Age 2	2.8 hours
Gears 3	2.3 hours
Saints Row 3	2.75 hours
Deus Ex: HR	2.5 hours
Crysis 2	1.7 hours
Bulletstorm	2 hours

You can view the full report here.

http://blog.raptr.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Raptr-Report-The-Most-Played-Games-of-2011.pdf

Last modified on December 09, 2011 at 3:31 pm

Steve Burke

Steve started GamersNexus back when it was just a cool name, and now it's grown into an expansive website with an overwhelming amount of features. He recalls his first difficult decision with GN's direction: "I didn't know whether or not I wanted 'Gamers' to have a possessive apostrophe -- I mean, grammatically it should, but I didn't like it in the name. It was ugly. I also had people who were typing apostrophes into the address bar - sigh. It made sense to just leave it as 'Gamers.'"

First world problems, Steve. First world problems.

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