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I did a quick search and couldn't find anything that breaks down by age sadly. I really hope someone has the stats cause it would be fascinating to see.
I don't have the figures either but when I think which age group could have the money to actually preorder a game on a whim without knowing if it will be good, then it really isn't kids but working adults.
Could you share what you've found, please? What other category breaks are there?
The only thing I could find was a statista link that claims to show US gamer's proclivities toward preordering in 2016 based on a survey of 1560 people (https://www.statista.com/statistics/662626/game-pre-order-frequency-us-gamers/)
Everything other result seemed to be random news articles about topics tangentially related to preordering video games.