if these are the results, then most likely they're including mobile gaming
i'd like to know the results for games like cod, battlefield and cs
I wish statistics like this would stop including mobile gaming, it really skews the whole thing
[editline]22nd August 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=NitronikALT;45771218]if these are the results, then most likely they're including mobile gaming[/QUOTE]
They are
[quote]The leap in accessibility in recent years is a likely reason for these large numbers. With smart phones, casual and social games...[/quote]
I know this is just to be able to say "Gaming isn't just a guy thing!", but the problem is that everyone who actually is in a gaming community knows it's the biggest sausage fest ever. It simply shows a false reality, and I don't see how it's gonna help getting girls into the more "hardcore" genres.
Yeah here we are, this is from the whole study:
[quote]44% of gamers play on their smartphone
33% of gamers play on their wireless device[/quote]
Taking away 77% of this study, I wonder what the statistics would say then.
[QUOTE=NitronikALT;45771218]if these are the results, then most likely they're including mobile gaming[/QUOTE]
Facebook games most likely as well.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;45771281]I know this is just to be able to say "Gaming isn't just a guy thing!", but the problem is that everyone who actually is in a gaming community knows it's the biggest sausage fest ever. It simply shows a false reality, and I don't see how it's gonna help getting girls into the more "hardcore" genres.[/QUOTE]
It's not so bad in popular mmo's imho and I wouldn't say it's impossible for as much as a third being female. But yeah most "hardcore" games tend to be a sausage fest.
I'm pretty sure calling the people who play games on their smart phones games is like calling a person who occasionally sees a movie a movie buff.
This just in, people who text message are the largest part of the novel reading demographic.
I'm thinking that this is purely games not restricted towards console-only or PC-only or mobile games Only, so this could be a very wide yet not restricted demographic of all users playing any game, including games like hidden object games or match 3 games like candy crush or bejewel, or some time management game.
Normally like always I tend to not read much about this article considering that it's not really the infomation that I'm looking for, what I'm more curious is how many gamers of both gender play PC only games, along with Console Gamers, and give us some more interaction to located a specific group of people....
How many females play Counter-Strike: Going Offensive?
How many adults (21 or over) plays Dota 2?
How many female teenage gamers (18 or over) plays pokemon?
These are what I am trying to say, as I am always curious on things that does not scream "stereotypical" as I search for things that point out as odd and unique.
First thought was
"Wow the European Space Agency are doing some strange research."
When you factor out the fake results, I wonder what the percentages of real gamers are.
Instead of "real vs fake" game percents or whatever, I want to see gender results based on hardcore games VS casual games, seeing as that's a little more objective than "smartphone or console."
[QUOTE=Yogkog;45771290]Yeah here we are, this is from the whole study:
Taking away 77% of this study, I wonder what the statistics would say then.[/QUOTE]
Technically you'd need to take away only the people who do that exclusively, taking away everyone who plays phone (and possibly handheld console given the poor wording of the second part) games would likely get rid of a large amount of console/PC gamers as well. I play games on my smartphone too but I still got almost 200 games on Steam.
now is that including mobile games or not because women are also the largest consumers of iphones and itablets
I think this study could be improved by a gender and age breakdown by console/smartphone/computer but two things that were interesting from it:
1. Games sales on PC/Mac/Linux only made up 0.22% of the total games sales in 2013
2. Despite the huge success of steam the 12 top selling games are still either Blizzard games or The Sims games (though they have made the strange choice of counting expansion packs as games, meaning that The Sims 3 and its expansions take up 7 of those spots).
[QUOTE=Ardosos;45771859]When you factor out the fake results, I wonder what the percentages of real gamers are.[/QUOTE]
I would place my money around 25%-33%
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;45773089]I would place my money around 25%-33%[/QUOTE]
Well you got the money part right
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"Study finds that teenage boys are still the actual target market despite lots of female players"
You're not a gamer if you using a tablet or phone.
[QUOTE=Aide;45773686]You're not a gamer if you using a tablet or phone.[/QUOTE]
You are a gamer, you're playing a different kind of game and having a different experience.
[QUOTE=Swilly;45773856]You are a gamer, you're playing a different kind of game and having a different experience.[/QUOTE]
Basically this.
Different sorts of games for different sorts of people.
[QUOTE=Swilly;45773856]You are a gamer, you're playing a different kind of game and having a different experience.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, who cares what type of device the game is being played on, it's that it's a game that matters.
Is GTA on a tablet "less of a game" than GTA on a PSP? Is Tetris on a phone less of a game than it on a PSP or DS? etc.
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;45774512]Yeah, who cares what type of device the game is being played on, it's that it's a game that matters.
Is GTA on a tablet "less of a game" than GTA on a PSP? Is Tetris on a phone less of a game than it on a PSP or DS? etc.[/QUOTE]
That's the exception though. Would you consider someone who plays angry birds and solitaire casually a "gamer"?
[QUOTE=Korova;45774579]That's the exception though. Would you consider someone who plays angry birds and solitaire casually a "gamer"?[/QUOTE]
yes, because they are playing a video game.
I bet you nerds who call yourself "gamers" never even played a tabletop RPG before.
People who play games are gamers.
teen gamer here dont hit on me silly adults
[QUOTE=Korova;45774579]That's the exception though. Would you consider someone who plays angry birds and solitaire casually a "gamer"?[/QUOTE]
Casual gamers. (people that play casual games like puzzle, adventure and simulation games, Angry Birds and The Sims for example and doesn't want to play more challenging games)
Gamers. (people that play games)
Hardcore gamers. (People that mostly play challenging games and AAA titles, Call of Duty, Assasins Creed, Dark Souls and DotA2)
Indie gamers. (people that only really care about indie games and their qualities, be it for the retro, the art or the experimentation)
Obnoxious people (people that can't accept that gaming is a wider field than only the games they like and actually label themselves as any of the above in real life)
[QUOTE=Korova;45774579]That's the exception though. Would you consider someone who plays angry birds and solitaire casually a "gamer"?[/QUOTE]
Well considering that I play Angry Birds on my phone when I'm on the bus, I'm going to go with yes.
I find it really sad that this is the state but I know a few girls who play actual games, every single one started to impress a guy and only 1 of them plays for her enjoyment now (the rest still to impress). It's really fucking sad.
Also on what a 'gamer' is, to me it's always been someone who takes a further interest in gaming, that is to say they are genuinely interested in gaming. It's not elitist to say someone who plays only mobile games like Angry Birds and Candy Crush isn't a gamer (they're not interested by games, they don't talk about it with their friends they forget that they even own a game until the next time they have a bus journey over 10 minutes long), they wouldn't call themselves gamers either, infact most would probably be embarrassed if they were called gamers.
Mobile games and console/computer games don't share the same audience.
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