• @phario@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Women also make up 50% of PC video game players and 54 percent of mobile game players.

    I find a lot of these figures really hard to believe, to be honest.

    Looking at the link, there is little I can find about their methodology.

    • Helldiver_M
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      11 months ago

      It looks like the data comes from Statista. After a quick google, they look to be credible. Though, they require a business solutions license to see the source, which is a cool $490.

      In other words, looks legit imho.

    • @Andy
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      2911 months ago

      I understand being skeptical, but there’s no reason it should be hard to believe…

    • @Greenskye@lemmy.world
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      2011 months ago

      Sims is pretty popular and the main version everyone plays is PC only, but can be run on laptops and other low end PCs. There are a lot of ‘I only play Sims’ people out there. Could account for some of the numbers

    • @nachom97@lemmy.world
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      1211 months ago

      50% of video game players makes sense to me, depending on what you count as a video game player. If, say, it was anyone who’s played any video game in the last year, I believe be about right. Sims, among us, the dinosaur game in chrome, wordle, etc. it adds up

      Men probably dedicate more time to gaming and make it a bigger part of our lives, hence why it would seem more common.

      • Flying Squid
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        2011 months ago

        I hate it when people gatekeep what a game is. I’m a guy. I play Word Cookies constantly. Does that make me a gamer? Because I can literally play it for hours. I don’t play Call of Duty or whatever, I play Word Cookies on my phone. I would say that still counts.