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
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.
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 is outdated and sexist.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.