Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson says his firm's 36th semi-annual survey of 8,600 teens shows that video game console ownership was up, with 83% claiming to own a current gen console or expecting to buy one. Spending on video games also increased, from 13% of male teen budgets in spring 2018 to 14% currently, Olson tells investors in a research note. Further, he points out that a growing number of teens watch others play games via YouTube and Twitch, while the number of teens who play mobile games fell from the spring survey. The analyst views the data as positive for the console publisher group Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Electronic Arts (EA) and Take-Two (TTWO), and neutral for mobile game companies Zynga (ZNGA) and Glu Mobile (GLUU).

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