64% of Online Gamers Are Female

[JKKDARK]

64% of Online Gamers Are Female

 

You wouldn't realize it while playing with most of the jerks that play Halo 2, but 64% of the nation's 117 million online gamers are actually women, according to Nielsen Entertainment's third annual Active Gamer Benchmark Study, released this morning.

 

The study's announcement release doesn't break down what games they're playing, though we expect sites like pogo.com, which feature a multitude of Flash-based, more simplistic games, are rather high on the list. Even more surprising is how many older gamers are playing. While the teenage market dominates in numbers, the study says more than 15 million gamers, about 8%, are actually at least 45 years old.

 

Americans have luck, they have a lot of girls gamers. I wonder if there are girls in this forum..

[Diso]

My guess is that the majority of them play MMORPGS rather than the standard FPS. In the FPS world, There aren't that many (Or I don't look that hard for them)

[Rag]

64% are most likely men who choose female characters. Only maybe 10% are actual women

[garyoak99]

64% are most likely men who choose female characters. Only maybe 10% are actual women

 

So you are saying the study is flawed because the researchers didn't even check the players' actual genders and they just took the characters' genders as fact?

[megaman_zer0]

64% are most likely men who choose female characters. Only maybe 10% are actual women

What about the women who choose male as their gender

[Smilee]

It didn't state it was a census as apparently they conducted the study with 2,200 "active" gamers. Also how did they conduct the study? By player response or by survey? Extraneous factors have been stated that the study does not specify which games they have looked on, they should have categorized certain game categories and survey those gamers within that game type. All of this is kind of hard to believe as plenty of extraneous factors are apparent.

[Rag]

64% are most likely men who choose female characters. Only maybe 10% are actual women

 

So you are saying the study is flawed because the researchers didn't even check the players' actual genders and they just took the characters' genders as fact?

 

That or the men who chose the women characters played the MMO so much that they are convinced that they are women and filled that out anyway

 

 

64% are most likely men who choose female characters. Only maybe 10% are actual women

What about the women who choose male as their gender

 

I guess you never know who you are playing with

[Devia Eleven]

64% of Online Gamers are not female, I refuse to believe that.

[Wizard]

There are no girls on the internet.

 

There are no girls on the internet.

[JKKDARK]

There are no girls on the internet.

 

There are no girls on the internet.

 

I'm a girl

[Private Biscuit]

There are no girls on the internet.

 

There are no girls on the internet.

 

I'm a girl

 

Well, there's one.