Are women over-represented in video games?

[HylianSwordsman]

DonFerrari said:

HylianSwordsman said:

But that's the thing. Phone games are usually shallow and dumb and whatever she's playing on the phone, there's almost certainly a more in depth and engaging equivalent on consoles. I could see the hormones making you like fashion and certain creative things a bit more, but it couldn't make you like phones over consoles, hormones don't make you like one electronic device over the other. It just means she might not like God of War and might be more into Animal Crossing, while some games will appeal to both genders like Mario Kart. The idea that an entire entertainment medium like games is something that only one gender wants to really get into just seems absurd to me. It would make as much sense to say that guys don't read long novels because there's not enough action in reading or something. Guys might like more spy thrillers on average and girls more romance novels on average, but they both read plenty, and the classics appeal to both, like Harry Potter or whatever. The same should go with games. The fact that so many girls turn up their noses at any game deeper than some bejeweled clone or dress the Disney character shovelware on a phone makes me think something is wrong.

I have bought plenty "everyone" game to play with her, she simply doesn't like it.

phone games may be shallow and simple, but that is what her and the majority of women like. There is very easy to check numbers, those researches that come with 50/50 gamers (sometimes even more women) also make it very clear that if you were going to look at console or AAA it would make like 80% males.

Hormones also explain the type of game your brain will preffer.

You're missing my point. I don't contest at all that a lot of women are like her, I'm saying something must be wrong that a lot of women are like her, or that console games are 80% males, because everything she likes on phones has a better game on consoles, if she'd just get over the device that it's on. Does she like bullshit Disney dressup games? 3DS has Disney Magic Castle, which is basically a Disney Animal Crossing and better than anything on phones. It's like the stupid bullshit she plays on phones, but with depth and an ounce of actual fucking effort put into it. It's not my thing at all, but from a pure game design standpoint, I can see that it is a good game, far above the crap on phones. Even if hormones make her prefer that style of games, she should like the same style but higher quality ones on consoles if she'd get over her problem with playing on a console. Same with other women. Why are they so afraid of consoles? Hormones don't explain that.