40% of gamers are women? uh huh....

[CoffeeShark]

According to an ESA study, 40% of gamers are now women!

And the average age of gamers is .... 35!!!!

Yes, the PacMan and Galaga players are kicking ass on you youngsters.

more:

Women age 18 or older represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (33 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (18 percent)

WomenGamers

Obviously they've categorized "BeJeweled", "Catz", "The Sims" and "Hello Kitty Island Adventure" as games...

[DennyCrane]

Imagine how much more thrilled those 3 chicks would be if that XBox was plugged in.
But yeah, I believe those numbers... I remember reading that the majority of "gamers" were women. But like you said, it's garbage like Word Zap and other free games on Yahoo or AOL.

[DWall]

thats like categorizing my dad as a gamer over 50, just because he plays spider solitare in his office all day instead of working.

[DennyCrane]

Well, that passes the criteria most of these "polls" use.

[Ruxor]

I emailed them and asked where the information was taken from. What sampling was used etc. Polls and statistics from "Associations" such as this are not normally worth shit. We shall see.

[CoffeeShark]

The data included in the 2008 Essential Facts was gathered in an annual study conducted by Ipsos MediaCT for the ESA. The study is the most in-depth and targeted of its kind, gathering data from over 1,200 nationally representative households that have been identified as owning either or both a video game console or personal computer used to run entertainment software. The complete 2008 Essential Facts booklet is available online at The Entertainment Software Association - Home Page

You have to be careful with any of these studies. Many people who would say they are "gamers", are the bejeweled/tetris kind, and that's not what WE'D consider a gamer.

We all know that, in our type of games, women make up roughly 5% of gamers - TF2, Source, Doom, Halo, you name it. Sure, there are always the exceptions, and the really good female players, but 40% in no way applies to hardcore gamers.

Casual gaming, in all honesty, should have its own category. I think you'd see very different numbers if you discounted Wii Bowling, Smack-the-Penguin, and Hamsterz.

[Tulkas]

LOL, pretty sure my mom considers browsing the internet as "gaming"

My dad on the other hand, who is over 60, has played under my name a bunch of times, and killed a bunch of you guys. I love watching it. He is becoming more and more of a gamer as he gets older. Today he was whispering to me "I woke up early, so I decided to play that game (Combat Arms, which is pretty fun actually). He said he didn't want my mom to know, and that he was almost late for work and almost forgot to eat.

When he got home, instead of jumping into the shower like he should, he kicked me off the computer for "work" and proceeded to load the game. Damnit. He also plays a bunch of other games and i find that awesome.

[Wallpaper]

Such lies!

[Bojingles]

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Originally Posted by Wallpaper

Such lies!

[ech0]

i cant believe it