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Aeolus451 on 15 April 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Most popular genre? Social games...

Instantly invalidates this.


i bet that if they excluded mobile statistics from it, the "game stats" would be completely different.



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Dunban67 on 15 April 2015
chocoloco said:
Dunban67 said:


I clicked on theESA.com to read the study and get more detail-  althogh they had more detail than what the cited article for this OP inclded, i was disapointed with the amount of specifics and depth/detail of context.  There were some of both but not nearly enough overall-    So some of the statistics they presented that might seem surprising at first become less so 

I wish they would have added % s (age, gender etc)  re the top 20 console games in 2014 and top 20 PC games (they had stats for both of those but did not have top 20 mobile games or similar )  

So most of their stats combined people/their gaming habits  who play games on devices that were primarily purchased for NON gaming reasons with people who play games on devices that were purchased primarily FOR gaming reasons- which makes a big difference

Honestly i was expecting a much better, more in depth and detailed study with far more definitions and context-  They surely had the ability to do one (maybe they did but have not published it - who knows) 

 

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It seems to have the data under the description of member benifits, and the only way listed to join is to call a specific person. It seems to target people in the gaming industry. Interestingly, it is run by the people that own and operate E3. 

I did notice  The ESA s supported by a Who s Who of games companies so the study is going to lean to their common interest both business and politcal no doubt-   I m sure they published what tehy wanted to and may not or will not let some of the more in depth data out to the public



Normchacho on 15 April 2015
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.


What? Of course there aren't going to be as many older women gamers, the medium didn't really open up to them until way after guys started playing video games. My brother is by all accounts a "hard core" skateboarder, but you're saying if he ever out of it he was never really that into it? Why do you have so many qualifiers for what makes a woman a gamer? 

 

P.S. My sister turned 25 today, guess what her BF bought her. A N3DS XL.



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The_Yoda on 15 April 2015
ganoncrotch said:
mornelithe said:

I really don't get how people can go so long without running into a female gamer...boggles the effin mind.  I literally went to Blizzcon w/ my Guild Master from WoW last year (and we're going again this year) lol.  My world would be lesser without good folks like her around.


Like I said earlier in this thread I do believe wow's population to have a large number of females in it, at a point during pandaria we raided with 4 girls on a 10 man team. That's "hardcore" raiding btw endgame mythic stuff, not just bouncing around goldshire pet battling like some people seem to think girl gamers do :D

of course you always have the models bringing the side down!

http://weknowmemes.com/2012/12/video-game-models-are-so-bad-they/

Damn it that N64 is sexier than she is.  It makes her look better.



Eddie_Raja on 16 April 2015
Normchacho said:
Eddie_Raja said:


Maybe not with that game, but that is in many ways a "Gateway Drug."  It may be candy crush now, but it could possibly opens their mind to other gaming possibilities they would have previously written off.

People said the same stuff about the Wii, and yet it brought gaming to a lot of "Non-Gamers."  That is never a bad thing.


You want to go ahead and ask Nintendo how that worked out for them? It wasn't a gateway to gaming at all, they bought the Wii, and then never bought another console after that.

I would be willing to bet that the stats on people moving from mobile gaming, to "hardcore" gaming would show very little movement at all.

Yeah because Nintendo did such a great job capitalizing on their new users /s



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Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

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outlawauron on 16 April 2015
aikohualda said:
ganoncrotch said:

Think she earned 100m+ from that sadly enough.

i doubt... i am not sure what is her net worth but even if she have 200 million which is very unlikely i am pretty sure that half of it came from that game...

100 million from the game is a pretty conservative estimate. People forget that the top grossing iOS and Android titles are huge. Like, bigger than 99% of all console/PC video games.



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Ganoncrotch on 16 April 2015
outlawauron said:
aikohualda said:

i doubt... i am not sure what is her net worth but even if she have 200 million which is very unlikely i am pretty sure that half of it came from that game...

100 million from the game is a pretty conservative estimate. People forget that the top grossing iOS and Android titles are huge. Like, bigger than 99% of all console/PC video games.


Yeah I was thinking about the numbers from the links I put in http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=7223535 post and if you would compare those numbers to Candy Crush users of whom 97% do not pay any money to play the game just enjoying the free parts of it. So if you look at the daily user figure at 2.5m and go for 3% of that you still have 75k people per day who play it and would spend cash in it, massive numbers if you were to think those users even spent a dollar per day that's be $525000 per week from it. Crazy money.



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Ganoncrotch on 16 April 2015
The_Yoda said:
ganoncrotch said:
mornelithe said:

I really don't get how people can go so long without running into a female gamer...boggles the effin mind.  I literally went to Blizzcon w/ my Guild Master from WoW last year (and we're going again this year) lol.  My world would be lesser without good folks like her around.


Like I said earlier in this thread I do believe wow's population to have a large number of females in it, at a point during pandaria we raided with 4 girls on a 10 man team. That's "hardcore" raiding btw endgame mythic stuff, not just bouncing around goldshire pet battling like some people seem to think girl gamers do :D

of course you always have the models bringing the side down!

http://weknowmemes.com/2012/12/video-game-models-are-so-bad-they/

Damn it that N64 is sexier than she is.  It makes her look better.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-64-Limited-Edition-Gold-Console-Zelda-OOT-MM-Bundle-Lot-N64-System-2-/331174686602

costly bugger too. (tis just the console, ebay still don't ship video game models sadly)



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outlawauron on 16 April 2015
ganoncrotch said:
outlawauron said:

100 million from the game is a pretty conservative estimate. People forget that the top grossing iOS and Android titles are huge. Like, bigger than 99% of all console/PC video games.

Yeah I was thinking about the numbers from the links I put in http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=7223535 post and if you would compare those numbers to Candy Crush users of whom 97% do not pay any money to play the game just enjoying the free parts of it. So if you look at the daily user figure at 2.5m and go for 3% of that you still have 75k people per day who play it and would spend cash in it, massive numbers if you were to think those users even spent a dollar per day that's be $525000 per week from it. Crazy money.

$1/day seems quite low. As someone has recently quit a very competitive game that was freemium, I know people who were spending $50/week often. During big events, I had allies spending more than $500 for a single event. These games have their whales.



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chocoloco on 16 April 2015
Dunban67 said:
chocoloco said:


It seems to have the data under the description of member benifits, and the only way listed to join is to call a specific person. It seems to target people in the gaming industry. Interestingly, it is run by the people that own and operate E3. 

I did notice  The ESA s supported by a Who s Who of games companies so the study is going to lean to their common interest both business and politcal no doubt-   I m sure they published what tehy wanted to and may not or will not let some of the more in depth data out to the public

That sounds paranoid.