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outlawauron on 15 April 2015
AlfredoTurkey said:
Eddie_Raja said:


Yes anything you don't agree with must be fake.

He meant in context to console gaming. I too would like to see JUST console gaming study done. I'm pretty sure less than 5% of console gamers are women for example lol

It wouldn't be that low. PC/console have a much higher male/female ratio, but it's not that huge. I'd bet 80/20 if I had to.



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mornelithe on 15 April 2015
PwerlvlAmy said:
mornelithe said:

Well...I mean, 56% is higher than 44%...so technically it is true.  However, great gains are being made for the females, so we should see a parity soon. 


I'm referring to the people that cant possibly believe that a 44% is even fathomable and it has to be false

Ahh, well, I mean, it comes down to the finer details.  Some appear to assume that only women play freemium games (not true, I play the Simpsons Tap Out, but I don't pay for anything), but, I would be interested in delving deeper into the statistics.  And I think the question of those who identify as gamers, versus those who do not is also an interesting study too.



Volterra_90 on 15 April 2015
PwerlvlAmy said:
lol i see the ''female gamers cant possibly play games as much as men'' talk is still alive and well

I really don't know, but, in my personal experience, I've never met a woman gamer in my entire life lol. I've met a lot of them who play games (FB games, mobile games mostly), but, they don't call themselves "gamers". But, hey, my personal experience is not representative of the whole. 



PwerlvlAmy on 15 April 2015
Volterra_90 said:
PwerlvlAmy said:
lol i see the ''female gamers cant possibly play games as much as men'' talk is still alive and well

I really don't know, but, in my personal experience, I've never met a woman gamer in my entire life lol. I've met a lot of them who play games (FB games, mobile games mostly), but, they don't call themselves "gamers". But, hey, my personal experience is not representative of the whole. 


yeah i was about to  say what you wrote at the end,your life experience doesnt sum it up as a whole lol



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chocoloco on 15 April 2015

People older then fifty grew up before games were really a popular media. The first gen of gamers is growing up and continuing to play games to varying extents. So, it is not really a surprise to me. The average age will grow as more of population was born when video games became pretty big, and actually existed.



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Eddie_Raja on 15 April 2015
mornelithe 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.

That's definitely true, and it'd be an interesting study to find a linkage between freemium/social media games and those who go into gaming further as a result.  Much of the stigma could simply be lack of knowledge around others gaming habits.  Entirely plausible, but there's really not any studies that prove it definitively either.  What we do know is that your retail/digital $60 show nowhere near the kind of active user population as some of these freemium titles.   So, that would stand in contrast to assuming they're a gateway for a large portion of those individuals.


I would like to see that study...



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Proxy-Pie on 15 April 2015

Wasn't there a study that said more women played games than men? Why the inconsistent results?



NobleTeam360 on 15 April 2015

18-35 range hype!



AlfredoTurkey on 15 April 2015
outlawauron said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

He meant in context to console gaming. I too would like to see JUST console gaming study done. I'm pretty sure less than 5% of console gamers are women for example lol

It wouldn't be that low. PC/console have a much higher male/female ratio, but it's not that huge. I'd bet 80/20 if I had to.


I don't know much about PC gaming so I can't speak about that. But JUST console gaming? I doubt it's over 5%. I mean, I've met enough people to quanitify my own polls and it's probably BELOW that number. There are "gamer girls", but in my experience, they are very rare. And even then, most of them are sort of posers and aren't any good.

Finding a girl who is a hard core console gamer that can go toe to toe with a guy core gamer is like finding gold. I wish there were more.



AlfredoTurkey on 15 April 2015
chocoloco said:

People older then fifty grew up before games were really a popular media. The first gen of gamers is growing up and continuing to play games to varying extents. So, it is not really a surprise to me. The average age will grow as more of population was born when video games became pretty big, and actually existed.


You're spot on. My mother is in her early 50's. I'm 35 myself. She has NEVER understood gaming and I'm constantly having to remind her that it's because MY generation, the kids born between the late 70's and early 80's pretty much gave birth to the entire thing. I'm the first generation and I'll be gaming until I'm dead... 100 years old or not.