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Ckorik on 16 April 2015
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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.


ROFL Well - lets see - WoW has 10m subs - and they have always trended 50/50 female.  So there is 5 mil.

Outside of that I'm married to one - and my Ex is one - although neither plays consoles - they play PC - actually I will say that most hard core female gamers I know are PC based.

The only casual female gamers I know use consoles - although every gamer I know (male or female - I work next to a guy who is in the top 100 gamerscores for XBox live in the US - it got him a free xbox one at launch) - every one - has played farmville and candy crush.

 

WTF else are you supposed to do waiting at a dr. office for an appointment?

 

So lets see - wife - ex - and then out of friends close enough to actually chat on the phone it would be... 4 - although one of them is under 35 so mabey she shouldn't count according to you eh?  That total would be 6 - and that's just my little circle of the world and I'm anti-social.

 

None of them are 'casual gamers' - a couple of them ran in world first everquest guilds back in the day.   My wife for example plays diablo 3 - world of warcraft - archage - civ v - tomb raider - left for dead 2 - etc.