HollowNotionWomen Continue To Represent More Of The Gaming Audience, Especially On Switch
Women also make up 50% of PC video game players and 54 percent of mobile game players.
I find a lot of these figures really hard to believe, to be honest.
Well if they’re including mobile gaming, I can see it.
But 50% of PC gaming? I know a lot of women hide the fact that they're women to avoid sexists, but I just don't see that figure being accurate, especially if there's no reporting on how they came to that number
I know a lot of women who have played sim/management games like The Sims, Zoo Tycoon, Stardew Valley, etc.
A lot of this comes down to the actual survey questions that were used. If the wording of the survey questions was “Have you ever played…” as opposed to “Do you regularly play…” for example, then the numbers could be quite skewed.
Yep, plenty of girls/women out there who don’t really consider themselves “gamers” who will put multiple-digit hours into those management types of games. I personally know several like that. I would imagine a lot of women don’t really get into direct PVP online gaming due to the online environment and lack of attempts to appeal to female gamers with the designs of such games, but would probably play a lot of single-player in a bunch of different genres and series. As the article implies, Nintendo IPs in particular would be appealing due to lack of pandering to either the common “gamer” demographic or to what many other publishers think women want in games (overly stereotypical “girl stuff”).
NepentheI think this especially stems from how those games are seen by some more asshole-ish people. Few would disagree that strategy RPGs are not gaming, but I've had a clerk at gamestop lecture me about how my then-favorite title wasn't a "real" part of the series. So it's still my favorite, but I don't bring it up anymore.
For much the same reason, there's an internalized mental block concerning whether or not something like The Sims, Stardew, Animal Crossing, etc. are "real" games because they don't really have a goal or require the same level of skill. If someone asks me what I play, I'm going to mention Hades before I ever breathe a word about Slime Rancher because one of those is going to get me insulted. If all I played was a "girl game," I just wouldn't say anything.
NOT_RICKMy wife has solo four stars in every single overcooked map. She still doesn’t think she’s a “gamer”
they are including majong and card games. my 75 year old mother plays those on her ipad all frickin day.
Action Brother, pretty much every single woman I know under the age of 40 plays, at the very minimum, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, and Terraria. Most of them also play other big games, like Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc.
The genre that the mostly don’t play though are modern “arena” style shooters like Call of Duty, Halo, CSGO, Rainbow Six, etc. They’re far more likely to play something like Fortnite or Hunt or something where you can have a small squad to roll with. Typically because it means they don’t have to deal with anywhere near the same number of toxic random assholes.
Nah they likely included mobile brainless games which everyone male or female downloads to pass the time
We don’t only exist in cute little spaces like mobile gaming. We’re all over the place. If you haven’t met many of us online it’s 100% because we didn’t like your vibe and never spoke or divulged that we were female to you specifically. There can’t even be an article about female gamers existing without you dweebs writing it off as probably just mobile game players ffs. Grow as a person. Please.
A lot of dudes in here accidentally revealing themselves to be fucking losers.
“Girls don’t play real games. Only mouth breathing, basement dwelling neckbeards like me play real games!”
Hi, woman under 40 here. I'm AFKing at a mob farm I built in Minecraft right now as I browse Kbin. I create mods for Stardew Valley. I have a lot of management games and the big-name singleplayer RPGs. I also avoid multiplayer unless I know I'll only interact with a small closed circle of my real-life friends because I hear about how awful and bigoted people will act online. These people are also why I am not going to try those arena style shooters on the off chance I fall in love with the genre. People being awful is a near-certainty in those games, while me turning out to love the gameplay is just a chance. I've got other things I can play that won't expose me to this and that I already know I enjoy.
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Almost all of my female friends game. The youngest is 29 and the oldest is 54. They… WE! play the same game franchises that my male friends do: WoW, Diablo, Guild Wars 2, Pokemon, Dark Souls, Battlefield, Warframe, etc. etc. ad infinitum. (One friend, she’s 38, is a huuuuuuuge Destiny nerd. A walking Destiny-opedia.)
We had a watch party for the last Game Awards - Me, my husband, and two other couples. Everyone was completely into it, male or female, rooting for their favorite games and getting excited over new game announcements. (Then after, we had a Bill Clinton meme party).
The idea across this thread that women only play specific genres of games (word games, mobile games, freecell, etc.) is outdated and sexist. Women are playing the exact same games that men are. I personally have about 300 games in my Steam library (and I’ve even played around half of them LOL) and I have a single game installed on my phone (The Room 4, to be precise) that I play every few months or so when I’m stuck somewhere bored and only have my phone with me.