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BBC 'Who Plays Video Games' Survey

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:00 pm
by Grim...
BBC wrote:The detailed project, called State of Play, profiled UK gamers and non-gamers from 6 to 65 and found that almost 60% played games.

Of those, 48% are women and 100% of 6 to 10-year-olds play games.
48% are women?
<span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>, I say.

Linkage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/s ... html/2.stm

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:01 pm
by Grim...
From the last page:

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What's that?

Re: BBC 'Who Plays Video Games' Survey

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:28 pm
by Roja
Grim... wrote: 48% are women?
<span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>, I say.
Sorry, but its a consistent answer, and I think you are ignoring a huge chunk of "why".

Card games! Solitaire, hearts, spades, the list goes on. Women in card games are incredibly competitive. The Sims has something like 2-to-1 women v. men purchasing! Myst was virtually the same.

There are a bunch of games that you might not immediately think of as "gamer" style games, which are definitely not office software. Because they are so large, they offset the adrenaline-fueled twitch-shoot first person slaughter-fests that typically exemplify "games".

Women are definitely a large part of the market. Not to mention, almost half my guild on World of Warcraft are women in real life. Times they have changed.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:36 pm
by Grim...
I'm aware the market has changed, but 48%?

I'm not convinced.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:37 pm
by Grim...
Aha:
BBC wrote:A gamer is defined as someone who has played video games in the last six months on any platform, including interactive TV (iTV).
By that rational, my wife is a gamer :)

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:44 pm
by Roja
Grim... wrote:By that rational, my wife is a gamer :)
:) See? It all comes down to definitions. Define the terms of the debate (or survey, in this case), and you control the outcome.

But I will offer that women are definitely a larger portion of the computer gaming category as well - definitely over 1/3rd.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:10 pm
by BDKR
Grim... wrote: I'm not convinced.
I am! I know a large number of women that play. Of course, the bulk of those are younger, but it's there still. However, I also agree with Roja that most of those aren't playing FPS's or flight/war sims or other equally involved or violent games. Stuff like Zelda, Star Ocean, etc.... is huge with a lot of the girls I've come across as of late.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:13 pm
by John Cartwright
My girlfriend likes playing my games more than me :twisted: As a matter of fact I can name half a dozen girls that are pretty much classified as the typical PC gamer (not talking solitaire)

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:16 pm
by foobar
BDKR wrote:
Grim... wrote: I'm not convinced.
I am! I know a large number of women that play. Of course, the bulk of those are younger, but it's there still. However, I also agree with Roja that most of those aren't playing FPS's or flight/war sims or other equally involved or violent games. Stuff like Zelda, Star Ocean, etc.... is huge with a lot of the girls I've come across as of late.
8O Where do you come from? Over here, I haven't met a single girl who plays games regularly. Only the occasional Halo session with the boyfriend, etc.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:26 pm
by BDKR
foobar wrote:
BDKR wrote:
Grim... wrote: I'm not convinced.
I am! I know a large number of women that play. Of course, the bulk of those are younger, but it's there still. However, I also agree with Roja that most of those aren't playing FPS's or flight/war sims or other equally involved or violent games. Stuff like Zelda, Star Ocean, etc.... is huge with a lot of the girls I've come across as of late.
8O Where do you come from? Over here, I haven't met a single girl who plays games regularly. Only the occasional Halo session with the boyfriend, etc.
Lonely? :( LOL....

Where is "Over here"? I'm stateside. A lot of girls I've met in their late teens through mid 20's are down with it.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:31 pm
by foobar
BDKR wrote: Lonely? :( LOL....
Lol :lol: . Not really, I'm not much of a gamer, actually. :wink:
BDKR wrote: Where is "Over here"? I'm stateside. A lot of girls I've met in their late teens through mid 20's are down with it.
I guess the US is different. By "over here" I meant Germany*.


*) I'm Polish though! I always have to say this. I hate it when people assume I'm German. No offense, Germans. It's comparable to people assuming that you're Czech when you're actually German. Yea, I know... WTF.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:28 pm
by Roja
foobar wrote:I guess the US is different. By "over here" I meant Germany*.
I could make so many jokes about "the US is different". But on the Germany note, my Sister is deployed there (in the Army). Where in Germany are you?

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:41 pm
by foobar
Roja wrote:
foobar wrote:I guess the US is different. By "over here" I meant Germany*.
I could make so many jokes about "the US is different". But on the Germany note, my Sister is deployed there (in the Army). Where in Germany are you?
South-West. Stuttgart, to be exact.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:45 pm
by Roja
foobar wrote:Stuttgart, to be exact.
How far is that from Landsthul?

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:25 am
by Skittlewidth
Sorry to resurrect an old post, but I just found out what this picture was:
Grim... wrote:From the last page:

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What's that?
It's from the forthcoming Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the GameCube.
I have to say I was surprised, I thought it was off the Xbox 360 or something.