The new data also reveals that 45% of Xbox owners and 41% of PS5 owners are female, too

The new data also reveals that 45% of Xbox owners and 41% of PS5 owners are female, too

This really shouldn’t be news and it certainly shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, but yes, new data from Circana shows that—as we told you in 2017—women play video games. In fact, more than half of all Switch owners are women. And a very vocal bunch of idiots are reacting about as well as you’d expect to this “revelation.”

  • Spellblade
    40•1 year ago

    I don’t understand why they’re surprised. Gaming has been mainstream for many many years now and women are half the population.

    • noodlejetski
      22•1 year ago

      first they took our jerbs, then they took our 'obbies, what’s next, are they going to demand equal pay as well??!???!?!?!?11

      • tom
        11•1 year ago

        jerbs
        'obbies

        I admire your effort to seamlessly characterise misogyny on both sides of the Atlantic!

        • ElectronSoup
          4•1 year ago

          More Americans elide their haitches than brits, IME as brit that lived in the US for a while.

          • Pigeon
            1•1 year ago

            There are some words that don’t get h’s here, like herb (“erb”), but I’ve never heard anyone say 'obbies, at least on the west coast.

    • Zagaroth
      6•1 year ago

      Some of them have a sliver of an excuse, as from my childhood until I was at least in my late 20s, gaming was the realm of kids and geeks with no social life (according to populate opinion). And some people have trouble changing their understanding of the world after a certain point in their lives.

      They probably also have a lot of other issues as that kind of mindset can affect a lot of other things, but that is the way some people are.