Noctis23 said:
How many of these women only have consoles for the sake of Netflix, Hulu, etc?
45% is a HUGE number. It's hard for me to believe that's accurate. I've played thousands upon thousands of multiplayer games in Halo (3, Reach, and 4), Mass Effect 3, etc and I've only come across a handful of female gamers. Only 1 female on my friends list and the rest are male. It may be anecdotal but I think it's enough for a decent sample size. Edit: If you're going by Xbox Gold numbers, you have to have that subscription in order to watch apps such as Netflix, Vudu, Hulu, Crunchyroll, etc.
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Ever think women gamers may avoid you because you are the type of guy that finds objectified women sexy?
I know a lot of women who play videogames... generally not the sort of thing they mention casually though because well, when they do it either results in Tits or GTFO or the men just fawning over them... or both.
These numbers are just going to get bigger as well. SInce 70% of women between 12 and 24 play videogames.
Also, it's not Xbox gold subscribers no... it's about half a dozen specific research studies done on the topic.
Xbox actually lags behind as far as women partly due to it's pairing as part of the "dudebro" culture.
As for volume.. that 43% of women buy 46% of the games sold. The casual male market is greatly underestimated due to a general belief that people that hold the same demographics as us much match our behvior paterns. Since videogames were seen mostly as a boy thing (though this is changing see the above demo) tons of guys mostly grew out of it, and just keep their systems around for the occasional sports game, huge blockbuster like COD or sentimental favorites (Zelda).
