snowfi6916 said:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/female-adults-oust-teenage-boys-largest-gaming-demographic/
The schadenfreude here is so sweet. And I am glad there are going to be whiny male gamers crying into their soup over this.
The 21st century is here. Get on board or get out of the way.
I think people might need to re-read the article before rejoicing
"both consoles and mobile devices"
"The spike in the number female gamers is likely tied to widespread smartphone adoption. In addition to traditional PCs and the Nintendo Wii game console, women were more likely to game on their mobile devices"
I'm all for more people in gaming but not through Candy Crush Saga.
snowfi6916 said:
Least now we don't need to hear about how girls aren't a major force in the game industry. The majority I would say has a pretty big voice.
The whole "we are the biggest demographic so there shouldn't be more female representation in games" etc. argument was getting old.
Except it's in the mobile market. This won't influence AAA PC and console titles if an audience is a major force on mobile.
Thebazilly said:
But it clearly doesn't count, because they're filthy casuals playing mobile games, and are not true for-realsies hardcore gamers.
As a side note, what does "casual" even mean any more? I saw a thread a while back calling Assassin's Creed "casual." I guess people just want to feel even more elitist about liking Dark Souls?
Casual = you play games merely for fun and don't try to look at or learn far deeper aspects behind their mechanics.
Being casual is fine to an extent. you don't have the drama or have to care about gaming you just see one you like and buy it then play it.
Aiddon said:
hoo-boy, I can already see people trying to find ways to discredit this. Of course I very much doubt game makers are going to start diversifying as they've shown they're comfortable jerking off the "hardcore" for all eternity despite it being a shrinking demographic.
Thebazilly said:
But it clearly doesn't count, because they're filthy casuals playing mobile games, and are not true for-realsies hardcore gamers.
As a side note, what does "casual" even mean any more? I saw a thread a while back calling Assassin's Creed "casual." I guess people just want to feel even more elitist about liking Dark Souls?
I have no idea; I think it mostly just means any game that isn't stuck up its ass. I don't get what the elitist attitude gets either. Any sort of opening of the "white, male, heterosexual club" is seen as some sort of attack on "traditional" gamine, unaware that stuff like Pong was catered to adults in bars and in fact was a hit with women due to females having better control over minute finger movements. I think gamers still don't GET that "casual" gaming is not some sort of danger to "hardcore" gaming. They don't get that all it means is we're going to have these games in ADDITION to those we've always had. I think that's ultimately the thing; it's not about TAKING space it's about them having to SHARE space and nerds have repeatedly shown to be greedy, selfish twits who refuse to share or tolerate newbies.
If anything the industry isn't casual and inclusive ENOUGH, way too complacent with just selling the same titles to the same customers despite that pool steadily shrinking. Not a good way to expand the industry. And it looks like the industry is going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future
What it is, is a relation to "Call of duty Syndrome".
People are concerned one game will be a success and then rather than diversify companies will focus on that aspect.
e.g. Call of Duty influencing Kaos studio (makers of Frontlines fuel of war) to have Homefront more like Call of duty with killstreak rewards etc.
Modern Military shooters being the reason Timesplitters 4 wasn't picked up by publishers.
Yes it's stupid but unfortunately so is the AAA industry as their previous obsession with rhythm games shows.
I'd suggest it's not that people don't want diversity it's that people don't trust the AAA industry to provide it.
I mean even films have that a bit. Godzilla had to have a human interest love story thing as did Robocop because it's the thing to do now. Even the Expendables film has a love story in it.
I'm not saying don't have a love story but so often it feels forced in because it needs human interest rather than trying to actually portray it's themes more.