The New Video Gamer Is a Chick

What they don't seem to realize is that the PSP, DS, and Wii are now exclusively for those so-called pink gamers... If thats how they want to make money go right ahead, but xbox and PS3 will be there with actual games, and make more money to boot... Reply

Whoopee! Hope to see the end of the 1000th clone of the race and shoot games. Xbox and PS = same old same old = b-o-r-i-n-g. Reply

I feel it should read "rolling out new products catering to their stereotype of women" There are a lot of female gamers in the traditional realms of games. (eg. halo wow c.o.d prince of P ) We just don't announce yourself for the reactions we get are usually crude at best. Would you openly announce yourself if you knew the major reactions are " you are lying or TGTFO"? Reply

Perhaps the video game industry needs to pay attention to this ~ current female gamers are playing the same games as the guys. I've been gaming both on platforms and online for years. I lead a community on an MMORPG, maintain a website, and get in there and kill the bosses with everyone else. So do the other women in my group. We solved the OMGitzagurl problem by kicking ass in-game and booting people that can't learn not to hit on us. Oh, and we don't accept the immature, however old they are. Where does that leave us? In the top 5% of the god-killers on our server. Along with several other groups with female leadership. This is so obvious, why is it taking years for the industry to catch up? Reply

I would say the only reason there is market growth in female-targeted games is because parents are buying them for their children. No girl who considers herself a gamer buys that juvenile crap. That being said, while I have noticed the increase in female gamers, I have also noticed that most of them play for all the wrong reasons. I say this as an online girl gamer... I am tired of female gamers who play games for attention from the male gaming population. Most of these girls and women tend to be unskilled at playing the game itself, and are just attempting to remedy a lack of self-confidence, friends, positive attention, or something else missing in their lives. That behavior encourages the rampant sexism that exists in the gaming community and makes it harder for true gamer girls to be treated equally. Many of my female gamer friends who love games (and are worth their salt) pretend to be male in online games, just because it's the only way to get fair treatment. The fact that this is the norm is ridiculous, but I understand why they do it. As a girl gamer who doesn't deny her sex or femininity, I am constantly belittled, harassed, scrutinized at a higher or unfair standard by male gamers - then even stranger, am treated with great hostility by other female gamers who I have no association with. I can only speculate what motivates this behavior but it reminds me of high school. Despite my complaints, if I couldn't handle all this shit then I would hide under a male guise like my friends, but just because I can take it doesn't mean it's acceptable. I completely support a female presence in the gaming community and gaming development that considers female players - provided it's positive and progressive. Reply

geez, women don't just play games for just girls, they play games that are for everybody like Nintendogs and Wii Sports Resort. also there are many females in competitive gaming playing MMORPG's and FPS games. the female gamer that stands out the most in my mind though is Old Grandma Hardcore (google) Reply