Now that you've made your personal attacks for this thread, would you like to add something to the discussion?

On-topic: I didn't realize the Gamecube had such a high female ratio.  I knew it was higher than PS2 or Xbox, but 42% is pretty damn good.  I expect we'll see the 360 and PS3 numbers rise as the price comes down.  Males are more likely to be early adopters, I think. 

Who need female gamers? We have the DOA girls, Tomb Raider and BloodRayne. Nintendo is destroying gaming. Yadda, Yadda, Yadda.

 My girlfriend's coming over tonight, of which she and I will most likely wind up playing a few games of Mario Kart before 'going to bed'.  She refuses to play Halo with me (likely because she doesn't want to invest the time to learn it - it's NOT FUN for her), but Mario Kart is just as fun.... even for me.

wii appeals to women in general and where you appeal to women and as a man you have a wii that means ur not a a guy that has no GF or woman and has a ps3 or xbox360. i know way too many guys with an xbox 360 and ps3 that has no woman and alot of guys with wii's that have women and are either engaged or married. my wife is even interested in the wii and she loves super monkey ball no matter what version it is.

I'd say you underestimate female gamers.  A lot of them like games just like "Core" gamers do.  My girlfriend does and she's new at it.  She's interested in just about anything... well anything that is well made and isn't just throwing in gore as it's only appeal (Manhunt) or sex. (DOA)  It's the same with my friend who is a girl gamer.

The only kind of game you need to appeal to girls are GOOD games. 

True story.

As a side note, shouldn't it be that way for guys as well?

For crying out loud, how old are you?  You have a serious chip on your shoulder thinking you are so much better than us "Kiddy gamers" don't you?  Too bad your "Elite, Hardcore PS3" is getting beat by something called Wii.

Here's something that might make you feel better:

I don't know why no one is mentioning how pathetic the 360 and PS3 is doing with female gamers, and how that's not really a good thing. And it's not girl gamers, it's female gamers, which include both girls and women, but most of that is women. So really macho male a-holes can laugh at this if they want, but many of the opposite sex do enjoy gaming, a lot. And their opinion on what makes a good game is every bit as legitament as any 30 year old guy playing Halo 3.

Shouldn't this make people pretty happy. I mean the idea that the market is expanding to include females is awsome I don't see the downside even if the females start to outnumber the males i still don't see the downside infact I only see an up side. If their are more female gamers then male gamers suddenly playing games will actually increase my chances of finding girl friends, up untill now it doesn't really help to be an avid gamer.

 So if anything the guys online should be screaming oh yeah Nintendo is attracting girls to gaming. The more girls in gaming the better it will never become a feminine industry so I welcome them with open arms. Of course this will broaden the target demographic to more Animal Crossing and less blood and gore (or maybe thats too biased of me).

Industry growth is never a bad thing and when more chicks game then guys that only makes being a guy gamer all that much better. I mean maybe one day girls will wanna hang out with the highest ranking Halo player in school rather then the football team captain. You never know so for the love of all that is good thank Nintendo for doing such a service to humanity. Making games coed can't be any worse then not being coed. 

It is pathetic. But its actually quite normal. There's segmentation in the interests of the two sexes. In Japan, its called shounen (action+fighting+leveling up+fighting powahh!!!!!) and shoujo (romance + love + magical girl transformations + I dunno it that well).

Gaming has leaned more and more towards shounen. We have rpgs, leveling up, strategy, fps, action, sports, fighting... all of these genres fit under Shounen. Hence it is normal to see a large population of males in the gaming industry.


Actually, Shounen is still only a fraction of males, hits hardest in the teens, and dies down when you turn twenty-two and enter the work force (on average). The same for shoujo and females. The majority of people have very little shounen or shoujo in them.

Nintendo's strategy for success is to blissfully ignore the extremes and to create games that cater to neither shoujo nor shounen, but rather something more universal. Their biggest hits are like that. What is it? Practicality? Pure Distilled Fun? Real life done right?

Who knows. What I can tell you is that because of the success of Nintendo in the older generation and in females, the Next-Generation after this will be very strange. And as long as game developers still rely on shounen as their selling point, Nintendo will continue to dominate software sales.