According to notes from the Nintendo Conference a few days ago "For each household, the DS has 3.0 users, the Wii has 3.5 users. DS has a 53% female user base. Wii has a 51% female user base." Yes ladies, we're playing it big, at least on Nintendo, which poses a slight problem really, it harkens back to the yawny view that those are the only sorts of games we play--Nintendo, pretty, bright, cute and 'fun'.Not to say it isn't great news, too long have female gamers been on the periphery. With this news, perhaps developers and publishers will take the female market more seriously than they have been. We've long known the surveys have come back with a 50 / 50 split over most gaming types, though usually it does lean slightly in favor of the male gamer, which makes this Nintendo news so amusing. Are the gaming tides a changing? Is the female gamer on the rise? And if so, where the hell is MS and Sony's marketing to that fact. Look out boys, we're a comin.
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