When I was still working at GameZone, I wrote an article about the female population being inflated, and how the "52% of gamers are female" misconception came about. I revisited the topic recently, due to the ESA's horrribly biased information, and said we needed real numbers on the demographic. "Certain people" acted like I was trying to start a freakin holocaust by asking for factual information that would help improve the gaming industry's reception of female gamers.
When I said Switch was the new big competitor for the PS4, Sony fans acted like I had attacked their wives and forced myself upon their cats and dogs. It struck me as weird, because I thought XB1 fans would be most defensive over it since the platform is in a bad place and asking the MS equivalent of a Steam Machine to save it, but they were relatively nonchallant. I thought Sony fans would be the relaxed ones, what with their console of choice being 60M units ahead of the Switch. I know sometimes people get into console wars like sports, with personl investments, but does being at the top make them act like jerks because they're getting big egos, or are they experiencing the same deeply rooted fear sports fans feel when someone starts to mount a late game comeback? (Falcons fans can tell you all about it.)
They kept screaming the switch was a different market, nintendo is kids only, they only appeal to casuals, etc. Armed with this information I tried to quash that myth, but when you're dealinng with fans that have become actiual fanatics, no amount of well thought out, logical discusion will reach them. Please note I'm not talking about all fans, I'm specifically talking about -those- types of fanatical platform warriors.
Gaming content for gamers, by gamers. It's just common sense.
