This statistic can have the exact opposite intended effect.īy bundling across platforms and genres, this 41% statistic doesn’t surface how the percentage of female gamers does or does not vary across genres, or how large that variance is. A game dev we recently chatted with mentioned that some designers she works with still assume that only 5% of core gamers are women, and that the quoted 41% of women are primarily casual gamers. Or that the apparent gender parity means there are no longer gender biases in game design. Some gamers argue that the study bundles gamers across platforms and genres, and is thus unrepresentative of the “real” PC/console gamers. Oddly, this statistic can have the exact opposite intended effect. This finding comes from the yearly ESA report, and has fluctuated between 38% and 48% in the past decade-currently estimated at 41% in the 2016 report. You’ve probably heard the often-quoted statistic that about half of video gamers are women, illustrating how gaming is now a mainstream activity enjoyed by both men and women.
