It doesn't hold a huge amount of relevance, however it is easy to see the greatly increasing female population of gamers through MMRPGs. A female friend of mine recently got World of Warcraft, and the 3rd thing she did imediatly after setting up her account was running around asking everyone if they were female in person, and upon finding all the ones that were in her area continued to attempt to band them all together. Online gaming is slowly begining to reflect a major female quality of sticking together due to the common tie of sex, as opposed to most guys who just grunt and join the union.
I would have to say 700$ a year is an extremely low estimate for anyone who reads slashdot. However, when taken under consideration that the majortiy of slashdot readers hold themselves to be geeks, you are only accounting for about half of the people who play video games. There are still many people who only lightly play video games. This part of gamers are skewing the result of yearly cost, atleast in the eyes of a good majority of hardcore gamers who happen to read slashdot.
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It doesn't hold a huge amount of relevance, however it is easy to see the greatly increasing female population of gamers through MMRPGs. A female friend of mine recently got World of Warcraft, and the 3rd thing she did imediatly after setting up her account was running around asking everyone if they were female in person, and upon finding all the ones that were in her area continued to attempt to band them all together. Online gaming is slowly begining to reflect a major female quality of sticking together due to the common tie of sex, as opposed to most guys who just grunt and join the union.
I would have to say 700$ a year is an extremely low estimate for anyone who reads slashdot. However, when taken under consideration that the majortiy of slashdot readers hold themselves to be geeks, you are only accounting for about half of the people who play video games. There are still many people who only lightly play video games. This part of gamers are skewing the result of yearly cost, atleast in the eyes of a good majority of hardcore gamers who happen to read slashdot.