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[tontod]

Female gamers outnumber boys

:Q😉

 

[DAWeinG]

I call BS.

 

[dolph]

😕

A poll released by the Entertainment Software Association and conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates found 26 percent of game players are women 18 or older, while 21 percent are boys 6 to 17.

i see it, but i don't believe it. is anyone else highly skeptical?

 

[Ranger X]

<-- skeptical

 

[edmicman]

and 53 percent are guys 18 and up?

 

[isasir]

It's all Anna Kournikova's fault!

 

[datalink7]

The largest group of gamers, at 38 percent, is men 18 and up

^ From article.

Misleading headline.

 

[PatboyX]

yeah, the numbers are being compared in strange ways.
i mean, its true that "females" outnumber "boys" but not "males"

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: DAWeinG
I call BS.

Exactly - though all I play are console RPGs which we all know "promote" the 2 player experience 😉

 

[Joemonkey]

I can believe it, chances are the females are playing bejeweled and mah jong while the guys are playing UT and quake

 

[Booster]

Heck I've never seen a girl, and, of course, a woman play any computer games, buy them or talk about them. I call BS. Guys, they don't play games, believe me. Of course, there a a few excpetions to this rule, but so few they're not worth to mention. BTW, that's the exact reason I quit playing games, long time ago. I was asking myself... If girls don't play and they do better, so I must be the stupid one.

 

[radioouman]

One of my girlfriends used to love to play the original Super Mario Brothers while we were in college. .. Somehow, I thought that it was really cool!! Of course, she always kicked my butt.

 

[DurocShark]

My old roomie met his wife on a Quake server... 😛

 

[moonshinemadness]

So that gal in UT who keeps killing me is really flirting?

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
I can believe it, chances are the females are playing bejeweled and mah jong while the guys are playing UT and quake

 

[Judgement]

Yeah, this is a stretch I think.

 

[usualuse]

Originally posted by: RishiS
It's all Anna Kournikova's fault!

True true

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: DAWeinG
I call BS.

ditto

 

[spidey07]

Look at the demographic. Very misleading.

Women 18 and older - women 18-25, 25-35, 35-50, 50-65, 65+ (large sample of population)
Boys 6-17 - pretty small (small sample of population)

 

[nitsuj3580]

Originally posted by: radioouman
One of my girlfriends used to love to play the original Super Mario Brothers while we were in college. .. Somehow, I thought that it was really cool!! Of course, she always kicked my butt.

hahaha....how do you get your butt kicked in SMB? Did she beat the game before you in two player mode or something?

 

[MartyMcFly3]

you know why the guys numbers are so low in the poll??? They were too busy playing video games to even TAKE a poll....