Source: http://essentialfacts.theesa.com/mobile/
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Also, 67% of parents play games with their children at least once a week:
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ESA: 37% of the most frequent US game buyers are female, gaming age breakdown
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Source: http://essentialfacts.theesa.com/mobile/
Edit:
Also, 67% of parents play games with their children at least once a week:
It actually says a lot.
charlequin
Banned
Well the stat is for game buyers so probably a lot of parents buying games for their kids?
only one post before the "but are they real gamestm BS. amazing.
What percentage are dads buying for their kids? Or are you only interested in being certain that the female percentage of Actual Game Players is lower than reported?
Gotdatmoney
Member
Are you fucking serious?
There was a study done last year or something that delved into that. I think there was a GAF thread too.
I've heard women say that mobile games aren't really the same as video games because they don't want to be associated with that demographic.
We are growing older, us, the pioneers of pitfalls and bombermans.
Also get out 😄
I'm not trying to say girls aren't a significant part of the market, I'm just curious what the ESA counts as buying a game. Do IAP count? If you seriously think 50+ grandmas are (regularly) buying stuff like CoD you're delusional. I just want to know what the breakdown is. Of course, that's much harder to gauge.
both sides add up to 100% together (well, technically 101%, but they obviously rounded), the circle graphs are showing the split for gender.
KillerMan91
Member
When you compare price of games to Blu-Rays or movie tickets that value breakdown really doesn't surprise me. I have paid for like 60 for all of Civilization V content I have and have played it for 1100h. I just bought Persona 5 for 60 but played it for 85h. Still under 1/h value. Movie tickets cost nowadays like 12 and movie takes two hours by average. Horrible value.
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The latter, I assume. I've noticed a bunch of similar sentiments in regards to the topic before. Seems to be a common sentiment among the GG/v/Kotaku in Action groups.
That sounds about right for developers, though - in terms of what a national average salary would be.
lucebuce12
Member
This is always nice to hear. I do like to think that we've learned from the way too frequent cases of sexism and racism in the games industry and are now a more inclusive community for all genders, creeds and sexual orientations.
Obliterator
Member
As someone who works for a major retailer whose clientele skews more female than male this actually doesn't surprise me.
I fairly recently started working there and I was shocked how many women buy games there for themselves in comparison to a company I worked for previously. There are a ton of "core" female gamers out there but they don't necessarily skew towards the places you expect "hardcore" gamers to visit
I fairly recently started working there and I was shocked how many women buy games there for themselves in comparison to a company I worked for previously. There are a ton of "core" female gamers out there but they don't necessarily skew towards the places you expect "hardcore" gamers to visit
I hope i'm still gaming well in to my 50's, will be interesting to see how the figures change over the years. Kids born around the start of the NES era are in their thirtys now (likely why the average gamer age is mid 30's) and I envisage those still playing in to their 30s will be playing in to their 50s as well.
Keep in mind that a lot of employees live in expensive areas. so cost of living and all that.
Younger children often only get a few games per year due to income limitations.
Well, these days they get a zillion free mobile apps, but those aren't purchases.
Those of us in our late thirties buy lots of games, we just don't have time to play them
There's probably something in that we're the people still used to the industry model of the £40 game, as opposed to younger players growing up on FTP mobile/online/service games. I certainly would have played those if they'd been around when I was a nipper in the 80s.
On top of that, lots of the most popular AAA games are 18-rated- that will also push the average age of purchaser up by setting that as a minimum for a lot of titles.
SuperBanana
Banned
Does this include mobile games? I'd be interested to see a breakdown of each platform.
it was at around 20% a year or two ago. Internet infrastructure is still bad or limited for most of NA.
Interesting. I get that you don't want to disclose your employment history, but are you in more of a big box store now as opposed to a specialty gaming store? I imagine stuff like that varies a lot from location to location, but I find this stuff fascinating.
From my own anecdotal experience, the local mom and pop shop skewed way more female & older than the gamestop.
30% of the most frequent gamers.
ScatheZombie
Member
Yeah... that's definitely got to be skewed by the executives making mid to upper six figures (or more). Because, personally, I worked in AAA development in LA and SF (two of the three highest paying locations) for quite a long time and I only started to get close to the average after I had a Lead title for over a year (there were also people on the the team with my exact title making $55k because... reasons).
And of the 200+ people on the team, there were only maybe a 20-or-so people at or above my own pay scale that were actual developers and not corporate suits.
It's also highly dependent on job title. Programmers are definitely hitting upper five, low six figures pretty easily, but designers and artists are usually way below that. It's pretty common for the Salary Survey to come out and everyone in the office wonder who the fuck is making all this money, because it certainly isn't us - this was true at five different studios across four different publishers.
Anecdotally, the annual Salary Survey has skewed about 10-15% higher than I have actually experience in the industry. Which makes sense when you consider that the survey itself tends to skew slightly towards start-ups (who pay more to acquire talent) and people with higher salaries - because both of which are more likely to share salary information than established studios or average-pay developers.
Lister
Banned
"Developers" Is a very broad term. It cna mean the lead engineer with a lot of experience in charge of making sure your engine's 3D rendere is well optimized and using latest technology and it could mean a Q&A guy playing the game looking for bugs, or could mean a 3D artist creaitng a model, or a junior programmer writing ascript for a trap on a game's level, or the game's director.