So many PS4 games have female leads

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outlawauron said:

Turkish said:

-Gravity Rush

-Horizon (Amazon nr1 best seller in US, UK, FR, DE etc)

-Nier Automata

-Tales of Berseria

-Detroit

-Uncharted Lost Legacy

-TLOU II

Seems a far cry from last gen when it was sort of tabboo by marketing people to feature a girl character prominently on the cover because it would sell less. Was Naughty Dog that broke the trend by refusing to hide away Ellie on the cover of TLOU?

uh, what. PS3 had Valkyria Chronicles, Bayonetta, Folklore, Heavenly Sword, Mirror's Edge, Final Fantasy XIII, Remember Me, Beyond Two Souls, Lolipop Chainsaw, Tales of Xillia.

PS has a lot of Japanese games, and Japanese developers tend to have more female main characters than their western counterparts.

And let's add this from both last and this gen: