NPD: Xbox 360 seems to be the biggest draw for players' time spent online!

According to an NPD study, the XBOX 360 plays host to the highest online gaming community with 54% of of it's users playing online:

Xbox 360 seems to be the biggest draw for players' time spent online, with the respondents reporting an average of 7.1 hours per week spent playing games online on the console. The PlayStation 3 ranked second with an average of 6.1 hours, while PC/Mac users reported spending an average of 5.8 hours a week on playing games online on those platforms. All other systems were found to account for less than four hours a week of online gaming.

The most popular genres found by the report were card, puzzle, arcade and word games, which 44 percent of those surveyed noted as their most played game types. Family-oriented games ranked second among players' interests with 25 percent, while massively multiplayer games took the third position with 19 percent. Online gambling games also proved most popular among 17 percent of those surveyed.

women make up a large number of the overall online gaming community as does the middle class:

According to the report, women accounted for 42 percent of online gamers, while a majority of online players were found to be between the ages of 25-44, be console owners, players of casual games, and live in middle income households ($35,000-$75,000).

You can read the statistical breakdown between all the consoles, including the PC by clicking here!