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About 20% of game console owners buy TV shows or movies once a month

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gamers are paying for TV shows and movies on their game consoles, but not as much as the movies companies might like. A survey of thousands of viewers shows that about 20.2 percent of game console owners purchase TV shows and movies on a monthly basis.

That’s up 1.5 percent from a year ago and up 4.1 percent over two years. But the number of purchases are relatively low. About 16.2 percent of respondents who own a game console purchase about one to three videos per month. Only 14.2 percent of respondents access their pay-TV provider’s app on their gaming device, down 1.9 percent from the previous quarter.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.