Ah, surveys. Is there anything you can't tell us that we don't care about? The NPD Group has conducted a survey on game packaging that managed to yield one interesting factoid: 11% of all households own games that are still shrink-wrapped.

According to Gamasutra, the study was a poll of 562 gamers who had bought a game in the past six months. Unless my Windows calculator is on the fritz, that means there's at least 61.82 gamers out there with unopened games. Not sure what's sadder - the fact that there's so many people with unopened games or that there's someone out there who's only considered .82 of a person. Poor guy.

11% doesn't sound like an outlandish figure, though. People get crappy/duplicate games all the time during the holiday season. Gotta be a few rare game collectors out there, too. Personally, I own a shrink-wrapped copy of the 1997 real-time strategy game Total Annihilation. Picked it up with the remaining balance on a gift card I used to buy Alpha Centauri. Will I ever play it? Meh. Too lazy to install it and too lazy to sell it - woe is me.