| Jaicee said:
2. Games for other players have to be made in the first place before they can sell or fail. The point here isn't that most gamers are male (that's obvious), but WHY that is so. If developers and publishers make more effort to appeal to different audiences, perhaps gamer demographics will change over time. |
Are you saying that if developers made exclusively female leads, that the trend would change and video gaming would be a female-centric activity? That seems like a huge leap of logic.
Let's take the most outlandish of examples. Sports games - replace male teams with female teams and watch the sales plummet from millions into thousands.
It's a difference in interests, not in lead characters. If your train of thought would be appropriate, then strategy games would need to be split 50/50 in popularity as there is no male or female lead, but as this graph shows, it's one of the least popular genres at 11% and 7%.
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