Girl gamers like the same games as men.

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JayWood2010 said:

I've seen two threads like this in the last week about how kinect and now the move are for girl gamers......Im sure you all have seen plenty of casual guy gamers.  I don't know what it is about gamers that thinks women don't play games just like men but they do. Not only are they shunned from playing online because of some kind of harassment (Usually sexual harassment) but many people consider them not as much of a gamer as men. Wrong.

Hardcore girl gamers typically like the same games that male hardcore gamers like. You know women and men really arent all that different like some of you guys are acting like(this goes for the real world outside of games as well). Guys play casual games just like girls do, and girls play hardcore games like men do.

Sony - Will have Hardcore and casual games for different audiences.
MSFT - Will have hardcore and casual games for different audiences.
Nintendo - Will have hardcore and casual games for different audiences.

Men - Like hardcore and Casual experiences
Women - Like hardcore and casual experiences.

Women and Men believe it or not are very much alike personality wise.  Physically we may be different but our personalities are human on both sides.

If you look at movies you'll see many like The Notebook, Pretty Woman, and The Proposal aimed directly at women.  The same with books but there's really nothing like that in gaming.  I'm not saying that all women are like that, my girlfriend for example is a big horror movie fan, but for women that do love those kinds of movies they won't find much of anything like it in gaming.

It's not just those types of movies either.  Imagine standing in front of some people and lhe only thing you know about them is that they loved the movies Dances with Wolves, Amadeus, The Sound of Music, and other Oscar winners.  What would you recommend to them for games that would give them that same kind of experience?  There are studios like Naughty Dog saying they're raising the bar for game writing but their hands are still tied by being forced to appeal to the same group of core gamers that almost all AAA games are aimed at.

I think it would benefit everyone if games evolve to where those kinds of gaming experiences are included.  I think the single biggest reason we see gaming fatigue/boredom is because games don't cover the same breadth of experiences that movies and books do.