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Data Shows Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly (kotaku.com)
submitted 1 year ago by nulluser@lemmy.world to c/technology@beehaw.org
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The new data also reveals that 45% of Xbox owners and 41% of PS5 owners are female, too

This really shouldn’t be news and it certainly shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, but yes, new data from Circana shows that—as we told you in 2017—women play video games. In fact, more than half of all Switch owners are women. And a very vocal bunch of idiots are reacting about as well as you’d expect to this “revelation.”

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[–] TheYang@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

basically just elaborating on this twitter thread.

And because Kotaku decided to play a >1min video ad while i was trying to read:

tl;dr:
According to Circana's PlayerPulse:
47% of console video game players are female (+1% vs YA)
50% of PC video game players are female (+1% vs YA)
54% of mobile video game players are female (+1% vs YA)

41% of PS5s in the US are female owned
45% of Xbox Series consoles are female owned
52% of Swich consoles are female owned
50% of gaming PCs are female owned

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That doesn't really seem right to me, at least in the US. Most female gamers I know are either married (so any consoles would be joint owned) or play mobile games almost exclusively. Some play on PC, and very few play on any kind of console without being married. Or maybe they just don't talk about it like men do.

If that's accurate, I think it's awesome! I'm more interested in methodology though. I'd love for this to be true since it means we've finally destroyed the stigma against women playing video games.

[–] raspberrybush@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The methodology is discussed in the article.

Here is a tweet embedded in the article that explains how the data was collected.

While reflecting on our personal experience is useful it is important to acknowledge that our experiences are anecdotal and do not necessarily demonstrate truth.