We really need to stop believing the "50% of gamers are women" horseshit, and we should have stomped that lie into the ground over a decade ago:
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Whenever this discussion comes up because of a bunch of whiny, bitchy feminists and their little lapdog sexual predators, sorry, "MaLe ALLiEs" it is always in the context of female character design in AA or AAA games and using it as an excuse to make them look like mutants. Women do not make up a significant portion of these games, period. Excluding their shitty mobile games, most women make it a weird sense of self pride to hate video games in fact. Here's the actual breakdown of genre statistics if we take out their mobile game trash. This is from 2023:
https://newzoo.com/resources/blog/s...rs-and-how-they-play-and-spend-on-video-games
The most important statistic is this quote right here:
"Nearly half (44%) of female players play only on mobile platforms (
exclusive mobile gaming is more popular among women than men)".
Not only that but here's this as well:
"As shown above,
36% of women players consider themselves gamers, while that figure jumps past 50% for male players. Also, 44% of male players are referred to as gamers by others, compared to 31% of female-identifying players".
Even more damning is this:
Going a bit further into gamer identification,
44% of women gamers consider themselves "casual gamers," 16% more than the share for men. Conversely, 37% of men who play games view themselves as "core gamers."
Under a quarter of women who play games share this sentiment".
When conducting a survey of college aged females in 2015,
45% of them spent literally 0 hours playing video games:
Now I probably don't agree with their definition of "core" gamer, but that's beside the point. Even going by the normie definition of "core" aka console AA and AAA landfill games like sportsball and COD, women do not play them in significant numbers, nor do they consider themselves hardcore gamers going by their own admissions.
According to a 2024 Statista chart that examined gender breakdown on gaming habits on PC/consoles in over 20 countries, (excluding mobile), this is the most important stat:
https://www.statista.com/chart/3406...-Aj840ubwRkhUTmq--sgmK5OhAd4fz1WS-rGNYo_lwanR
"Of the 21 countries polled in this survey, an average of
28 percent of female respondents said they regularly played on PCs while an average of 22 percent said the same for game consoles".
2017 Quantic Foundry survey with over 200,000 participants:
https://quanticfoundry.com/2017/01/19/female-gamers-by-genre/
Big fucking surprise. The meme of "women only play Bejeweled clones" is literally true. 69% of them (nice) consider that kind of bullshit the most engaging and interesting video games to them. It's of course followed by Casual/Puzzle, Atmospheric Exploration, Interactive Drama, and finally MMO's, the only real core game genre at 36%. The funny part is that it probably isn't even for the gameplay but for the socialization elements as we can see from the preceding Atmospheric Exploration and Interactive Drama genres they love so much. JRPGs and WRPGs are next up for actual games worth a damn at 33% and 26% respectively. The beautiful irony of this split is that apparently women prefer playing games starring those icky, "problematic" waifus more than Western RPGs with their busted up "realistic" women lol.
Even for Nintendo, women overall only make up 25% of their most valuable consumer base, with only Animal Crossing having a majority and Kirby skewing slightly for women:
Oh, and let me destroy the argument that women are actively asking for masculine and ugly female characters too while I'm at it:
Goddess of Victory: Nikke, a game with waifus so sexy that the Soul Calibur and Senran Kagura cast look like nuns in comparsion apparently has a 40% female fanbase to the point where the game rakes in millions like its chump change:
In a study wherein female participants were asked to choose between playing as an ugly female or a sexy one, the female participants said they "''disliked""" the sexy ones, but overwhelmingly still chose them lol:
Finally, in a poll conducted by Capcom of over 200,000 fans, both male and female, the second most important feature in a game is unique/ATTRACTIVE characters. Not realisic, not ugly, but explicitly stated ATTRACTIVE. Granted, the majority of Capcom fans (like just about every major gaming company fan is male), but it shows that no, there isn't this massive crying for busted up female charcters:
TLDR: majority of women hate video games and being called a gamer, most of the games they like have literally nothing to do with AA or AAA games, and even if they did that doesn't mean they're asking developers to make these ugly mutant characters for "RePrEsEnTaTiOn". Activists are bald faced fucking liars.
