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Videogames Attract More Women Than Boys?
Thanks to Yahoo!/Reuters for their story about a new Entertainment Software Association poll showing the demographics of gaming. According to the poll, "...26 percent of game players are women 18 or older, while 21 percent are boys 6 to 17", and the survey also revealed that "...the average gamer spends 6.5 hours a week playing games... while boys 6 to 17 average 7.3 hours per week of game time." Explicit games are also on the increase, as "13.2 percent carried a "Mature" or "M" rating, up from 9.9 percent in 2001 and under 8 percent in 2000."
We are mainly a Microsoft shop, so most of the folks I work with are heterosexual.
The rest are slashdotters.
Except me, of course.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
I mean, that is the only game I have ever seen an adult woman play...
I don't read or respond to AC posts
Slashdotters with girlfriends? My world is crumbling! Ahhhhhh!
aren't we all just playing games with each other?
All it takes to fly is to hurl yourself at the ground... and miss. -Douglas Adams
Laura Croft was the only girlfriend i ever had.
there has to be some underlying fact here, (camps of korean chicks forced to play videogames to skew poll results)
My girlfriend's Sims get more action than we do.
AND they own all this cool stuff in their house.
On the bright side, those bastards can't own cars, so I guess it evens out. Plus, my girlfriend can't turn off my Free Will. (usually)
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
It's a joystick envy thing.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
No wonder I can't find a date - everyone compatible with me is inside playing violent video games! I'd network with them, but they'd laugh at the speed of my dial-up modem...
Matt Fahrenbacher
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
BTW, this game is really good. Not your average rts/fps clone, but for those who like different games, worth a try .
More surprisingly, only 14% of male gamers live in their mothers' basements, whereas 82% live in other rooms in their mothers' houses.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
My girlfriend's Sims get more action than we do.
Plus, my girlfriend can't turn off my Free Will.
Correlation, meet causation.
Hey, let's trot out some boring stereotypes with no justification behind them.
btw, do you really think playing a FPS is "being masculine"? Sitting in a chain and twitching a mouse? Next thing you'll be playing SimBuildYourOwnLogCabin.
People who play a lot of video games are basically androgenous, and fortunately they probably won't breed (or will allow their kids to die accidentally while they stare at the screen, mesmerised - close enough).
Try going to the mall, go to the games stores and talk to a few female clerks. You'll find the type I mean without that much trouble.
/. pickup strategy. Any female into computer games is halfway home to stealing the average geek's heart!
Hmmm. I'm seeing a new
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I think they have it wrong. Playing mind games is not a subset of playing video games. This planet would be a great place to be if women in those numbers played games. The HIP culture would move from racy two-door booming modded cars to the best counterstrike and warcraft players.
Even including games like Sim Online and cell phone games doesnt give you stats like those. Remember EVERY kid under 16 in the western hemisphere plays video games.
But then, if you consider playing mind games in relationships, that about includes all women in the western hemisphere above 16. Hmm.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
What have I been doing with my life! I can't believe that! Do you know what this means?!?!?!? My chances of picking up a gamer chick have just gone WAAAAAY up! All I have to do is figure out what game...God I hope it isn't the sims....
"On the Moon, we have advanced far beyond rules, and manners..."
Why can't all fpga/microcontroller manufacturers just release free optimizing compilers???
72 percent of all statistics are made up.
If it were joystick envy they would all be stuck back in time playing The Games: Summer Edition.
I know for sure that game prepared me for my current sex life!
You're both wrong, since the original poster obviously meant Boulder Dash.
Or maybe Balderdash, the online edition. Whatever.
Maybe the guys my age (17) are too busy being addicted to the game to fill out these sort of surveys? Or maybe they have their mom buy them if the survey is counted by who buys the games...
"You can make up a statistic to prove anything. 14% of all people know that."
--Homer Simpson
but women attract more boys than video games :)
The remaining 3% have morphed into an unidentifiable classification.
Uhhh you mean the 1-5 year olds you left out? Though sometimes they DO act like little monsters....
They are incidentally the female analogue of male slashdot posters. They aren't getting laid either.
"You know why you do not see me styling wit my homies? Because I have no homies!!" -Mojo Jojo
Maybe the women polled in this study considered solitaire and minesweeper to be video games.
*ducks*
Too busy staying alive... ~ R.A.
How DARE you, sir!
I as an 18 year old female with measurements of 36-24-36 take offense to this! I do because I am not a teenager who is just taking on a role, but a real live woman with actual breasts! I have two of them! Actual, live, real breasts, and not just something I'm thinking about right now and wishing were in my immediate vicinity because I am a real, live actual woman and not at all made up.
If there was one word I would use to describe myself it would be this: "totally real and not made up." Of all the nerve - I suppose next you're going to be claiming that I'm not actually a vampire.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
"13.2 percent carried a "Mature" or "M" rating, up from 9.9..." The extra 3.3 percent is SOLELY from Dead or Alive: Extreme Beach Volleyball...
Now if more women were attracted to video games than men, that would be a problem.
Damnit! you almost fooled me, until I realised
your nick was Fireboy1919.
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as social beings, they play "I have more friends than you do"... no, they don't try to outdo each other... not at all...
:)
then again... there are those who just try to do each other... and sometumes i get to watch...
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That's why we're seeing so many women take up gaming.
I should get mod points for being well hung.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Who said anything about relationships? He said "getting laid."
The Geek Dating Show!
...and on the right we have the Girl-Geeks...
...that would be the people on the other side of the studio... ...oh, come on people it's not that hard... ...look they're over there. No, not the floor, the other side of the studio. For goodness sake! They won't bite! Just look them in the eyes! Ahem. The EYES are a bit further up. Dammit! Go to commercial...
Hi, and welcome to The Show! Whether its hardware or software you're after THIS is the show for YOU! Hah ha!
So, without further ado, lets get on with the show!
On the left hand side of the studio we have the Guy-Geeks...
(cut to scene of large mass of desperate-looking guys)*applause*
(cut to scene of smaller group of desperate looking girls)*applause*
Some of these lucky geeks will leave together for a night of gaming, while the others will leave... alone.
Now to the first round - the personality check: If all the geeks would start by making eye contact with members of the opposite sex...
Hmmn. Maybe it wouldn't work after all...
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