Average Gamer 35 Years Old, 44% Female, Plenty of other Stats - ESA Releases Game Stats

[Normchacho]

AlfredoTurkey said:

Normchacho said:

I think I know why you're having such a hard time finding "girl gamers"...because you have weirdly strict qualifiers. Why does she need to be good? I know several girls who play console/pc games regularly.

Even if the average is lower than in my personal experience, I bet between 10-15% of "gamers" are girls.

How many 35 year old women do you know that are hard core gamers? Be honest now. How many 35 year old women, who grew up playing NES as little girls, stand in line at launch to buy a PS4 or Xbox One... just for themselves? Do you know of any? Because I don't. The only 30 somethings I know are all males. By this point (my age) women have all "grown out of it." And if you can grow out of it, you weren't really hard core to begin with imo.

I may be wrong about 5%... but it's somewhere near the basement. It could be 10%... 15% maybe, like you said But it's low if I had to guess. I'd like a real poll and study done though so we could see.

What? Of course there aren't going to be as many older women gamers, the medium didn't really open up to them until way after guys started playing video games. My brother is by all accounts a "hard core" skateboarder, but you're saying if he ever out of it he was never really that into it? Why do you have so many qualifiers for what makes a woman a gamer? 

 

P.S. My sister turned 25 today, guess what her BF bought her. A N3DS XL.