Comments on: Women outnumber men in online games, survey finds

New study on gamers reveals Playstation 2 as the most popular console, but PCs are the platform of choice.

[darkane]

nope

This number is WAY off. It becomes especially obvious when you're talking about games like FFXI and WoW, where the ratio of men to women is something closer to 25:1. Maybe even higher.

"Just two years ago, according to the Nielsen report, many game industry analysts wondered whether computers would be able to compete with game consoles and handhelds."

That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Gaming started on computers. There has -always- been more PCs than console gaming systems in homes. A majority of the top games at any given point are first person shooters for the PC. The two most popular games ever are FFXI and WoW, which are both PC games (yes, I know FFXI is on PS2 and 360, but the vast majority of players are PC).

It looks to me like Nielsen either need to: survey a larger group of people, or just stop wasting everybody's time altogether.

[cryforlife]

They didn't say MMO's

Look at sims online, look at online card games, online puzzle games. Professional women who play mainstream casual online cardgames on their pc on their lunch break could easily outnumber the population a non-mainstream niche gaming genre like an MMORPG.

[untethered]

interesting dev

the trend will probably accelerate.

[untethered]

connectivity

The plethora of devices and anywhere connections, coupled with quick access without downloads fuels this growth...


http://cognitivelabs.com

[cryforlife]

Um...

Online games are online games, it's not misleading, rather hardcore gamers are biased toward their particular favorite genre at the expense of casual gaming.

[jion]

surveys

Smaller survey sizes are actually more acurate. Strangely enough the more random the survey is given out the more accurate too. Don't flame me to much if your a Statistics magor and you think I am off base. Anyway I would love to see the methodology for this survey since it was targeted at gamers according to the article.


But hey, I am a long time single male, online gamer so if there are more women playing, my phone number is xxx-xxxx. Call me. LOL.

[supertard]

** NEWSFLASH **

Nobody cares.

[beverins1]

How did these researchers conduct their survey? Did they ask people in person, face to face... or did they ask them from behind the anonymity of the internet?

Something people from Neilsen have to learn is that lots of MALES play FEMALES in online games. They do it for a variety of reasons. I do it because I don't LIKE looking at a MALE AVATAR. I prefer to look at something I find ATTRACTIVE rather than staring at a male posterior all day (and thanks to the way these games work, for the most part you will be looking at a butt all the time you are playing. I'd rather it be a non-male butt).

Other males have discovered that playing as a woman opens some doors to them. Humans are still very visual beings, and the appearance of the AVATAR does MUCH to influence the behaviour of the participants. All the player need to do is inflect a little bit of role-play and Presto! You have a successful female avatar which fools other players (it doesn't take much to fool other players because of the visual basis. They are SEEING a female avatar. All it takes is a little additional clever dialogue and behaviour and your illusion is complete).

The other nonsense in the survey is the "surprise" that the COMPUTER is the most popular platform. I mean, comon, guys. Read up on the history of games before you do a survey like this and stop behaving like games only came into existence in 1998 or something, OK?

So, essentially, I call ******** on this survey. Sorry, I'm sure some people worked hard on it, but... you people FAILED MISERABLY. Your data is worthless because you failed to account for people LYING on the survey... and it seems your past data on "gaming platform popularity" is based around a complete disregard for knowing your subject.

[h4mx0r]

OFFLINE GAME PUT ONLINE IS NOT AN ONLINE GAME. There is no multiplayer cooperative nature in many of the games in this survey. Its the same false as cooking a turkey and stuffing at home then taking it to macdonalds and saying you ordered turkey and stuffing from macdonalds. Those offline games are merely STORED online, they do not require at all any constant data sending. For the sake of reasoning its probably even better if you exclude all browser games from the mix since those statistics would be extremely flawed since the internet is unending where as games aren't.