Capcom just WRECKED the Video Game Industry with Facts
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Link to Capcoms survey?
Is this what a pedagog looks like? Imagine becoming the meme because you don’t have a personality 😂 or hair line ☠️
Is there a link to this study?
Yeah 50% of gamers are women, the same way in their delusional women carry society in their back.
If 3% of females play anything thats to much.
Women: WHY ARE THERE MORE MALE GAMERS THAN FEMALE GAMERS!
Me: Did you play any of those games?
Women: No but-
Me: There's your answer.
TRUUUEEE. It's not men's fault that women don't want to buy something, it's the bill burr WNBA issue all over again.
Question to those woman 'gamers': "Did some boy/man in your household buy the console/computer you have played games on and did you only play a few games because an active, enthusiastic gamer boy/man had set things up for you?"
Woman 'gamers': "Yes, but I've played a few games a few times on that boy/man's console/computer so I need to be treated equally as an enthusiastic gamer!"
@@pistonburner6448 I bought both of my consoles and set them up. Being housebound due to disability meant I had to find something to fill my time. My favourite game series is Yakuza, it would be very immersion breaking if the lead was suddenly a middle aged Scottish woman.
I was literally introduced to video games by women. Educational games, SEGA games, PC games, everything from Frogger to Sonic to Sims. But I noticed growing up that despite game dev teams having women, my generation (Millenials) rarely had female gamers. There was a shift where girls were more interested in fitting in than having fun, making them more boring and less able to find a wavelength with boys.
As time went on, this got worse with Gen Z. Girls played games, but more and more they focused on just games aimed towards them like Bejeweled. It's not that girls didn't play games, but that they were less willing to play games that boys played. Girls stopped playing fighting games, MMOs, platformers, and RPGs.
Eventually, though, girls started getting back into the habit of trying new things. When covid hit, and even a little before that, there was a boom in cross genre play. The problem is that girls still feel like video games are a waste of time and a male space, even though it was never true. I don't know how we can solve that.
@@ca_kay So you're saying that most gamers are women and most gamer-men get introduced to gaming by women?
But above all your attitude is that the world must fit your world view and ideology, and since it does not conform to your personal (or party's/"ism's") wishes right now the world must be forced to conform to your ideals...by harming those living their natural lives and at huge cost to them and society?
Why do so many leftists think that their made-up ideology must be forced on the world, and that they have the right to decide how everyone must live? Who do you people think you are? Who gave you the right to force others, tell everyone how to live, take away whole industries and wreck everything, cause absolute chaos?
4 percent? Did we just find elusive modern audiences.
Or just people who wanted to keep it hidden...
They are alienating their actual audient to make the 4% to the 41%
If that's it, it's about 16 times bigger than I thought.
4 percent of gamers have aids.
That percentage actually makes sense.
Making a multimillion dollar game for 4% of the audience and a secondary 14%. While the 82% take it or leave it. And then they wonder why the whole industry is dying. Smh
Wait, there's more: Out of that small number of girl/woman "gamers" many are recorded as such only because they live in a household where very active gamer boys/men have bought consoles/computers for gaming. Those girls/women have played a few games a few times (with very little enthusiasm) just because the boys/men have set everything up and introduced them to gaming.
Without enthusiastic, very active gamer boys/men in the household most of those girls/women wouldn't have even tried gaming the few times they have and thus were recorded as "gamers".
Here's the thing. That 4% and 14% doesn't want any of that garbage either. The people who scream and rant about it aren't buying games. They just know that gaming is a male oriented space and they want to their opinions to be included so that they can change that space to suit themselves even if they aren't going to do anything with it. This opinion is coming from that 4%
@@celestirr Yes, exactly: this is marxist agitation.
There’s enough people outside the 4% hate-buying or hate-watching media “for modern audiences” for them to continue this trend. It’s a war of attrition; as they continue to indoctrinate younger kids on all fronts, who will invariably self diagnose autism and trans, the percentages tick upwards. These companies are considered too big to fail now and can wait as long as they need to for “the message” to get through to everyone. It’s literally the red scare all over again, but they’re winning this time.
@@celestirrThat's disingenuous. And you know it
And yet Capcom is still implementing more "modern audience" bs which no one is asking for.
Thats Capcom . Even when they are doing and saying something right, they screw themselves over at the same time that results in a worse outcome .
Not shocking overall , just the same capcom stuff like always .
Dat Bl@ckrock/Vangu@rd zero percent DEI loan money calls.
Remember, this is a recent poll, so we still have to wait to see if they actually use the info properly or not.
which games do you think fall into that category?
Well yeah, its the FANS that said these things NOT CAPCOM
If 50% of gamers are women, 40% of them play mobile/facebook games etc.
Most are playing mobile games from time to time, they are not real gamers. Real gamers who play on pc and consoles are mostly men.
@@rpgadventurer32 in this timeline, most men are girls too.
Act Man solved this riddle years ago
I think you meant 90% of them are mobile game players
That's not true, actually. A large part of female gamers are women over forty who play hidden object games (yes, there's a huge market for that). But since those women don't go to gaming news sites or watch streams or whatever "actual gamers" do, they're pretty much irrelevant.
no wonder these companies keep losing money on "modern audiences", they only make up 4% of gamers
4% of "gamers"
Unfortunately some modernized trash games like RE4R selled in the end...but obviously some noobs voted the most recent games than old ones lol
Oh you misunderstand, The modern audience is the investors. 😂
@@papascronch exactly lol
it's the clowns who fund the companies who run into the ground and the developers get the blame .
Didn't realize my mom was a "gamer". She loved her candy crush.. so it's obvious JRPGs, hardcore fighting games, and competitive FPS's should cater directly to her. She will be thrilled.
Yup. I remember trying to introduce my mom to some super transitional games meant for phones but leaning a bit more toward regular vidya once she got into ipad games, like Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery (which is like a simple point and click adventure), and she bounced off it hard. There's almost no crossover between the Candy Crush audience and Gamers.
@@MidlifeCrisisJoe this is normal, handy gamers are just playing games on handys not console or pc, they are simply not interested in the real games i would say, my mom is the same, many woman i knew are exactly this, they just play games like candy crush, they are not interested in other ones.
American videogame companies - Other is 4% of the market? Let's pander exclusively to them!!!
You leave Bioware alone!
😂
u dont understand, they are SAviNg lives 😥😥
Get rid of male and female for character creator! The 4% are all that matters
Can someone list me 10 games that completely pander to the the 4%. Because from my perspective very few games actually have any characters from the 4% in them. A lot of this seems like people just getting upset online when I’m reality it’s barely an issue.
@@DistinctionDino Any game that removes gender from its character creator caters to the 4 percent.
Take the red pill Capcom.
what's black pilling is that none of these publishers/ developers look at this and make games for the 82%
@@pko1683that sweet sweet ESG money though...
@@pko1683 Capcom is one of the better companies in that regard. Japanese companies are far better than Western companies. I generally don't support Western companies anymore. Capcom is very well known internationally, so it caters more than lesser-known Japanese brands, but it's negligible compared to what Western studios do.
Capcom has released mostly excellent games in the past 7 years. I don't understand why people act as if Capcom is still in league with EA, Ubisoft and Activision about the DEI thing-y.
Companies know that male gamers dominate but they just want that ESG money.
Activists know that male gamers dominate. That's why so many activist women are drawn to work at game companies because they believe they are changing society by destroying the franchises that men like in order to try and change society.
Iconoclasts, the lot of 'em.
100% true for all these companies.
So they recognise Dino Crisis is their 5th most popular title yet we haven't gotten one since 2003. Come on Cap
Regina 😢
You need to consider that Capcom might have had their eyes opened by these polls as well. Let's see where they go with this.
@@SaveItForTheLost They've had fans begging them for over 2 decades, this shouldn't be news to them
Let's not forget how they bastardised the series after first game too. It's not like RE where they upturned everything after 3 mainline games. Dino Crisis 1 is whole lot different than sequels.
Gotta finish remaking all the REs before you get dino crisis apparently
Megaman: Ranks 2nd in their most iconic and popular franchise
Capcom: Does absolutely nothing for his anniversary
But when Mighty No. 9 was printing money - Oh let's buy Might No. 9 cuz money then do nothing with it so it don't threaten the sales of the literal collection of canceled Megaman games we keep axing.
That Metroid Prime-style Megaman game looked like it would spawn an entire sub-franchise, even if it was released today. "Megaman Maverick Hunter" I think it was.
It had the people from Metroid Prime, and the Ironman 1 Movie working on it, before Capcom decided printing money wasn't exactly what their interested in.
The equity fallacy = The assumption that a disparity of outcomes is the result of discrimination or malice
sure however females are more interested in social status, gaming doesn’t serve their base desires. as it does for men, men are problem solvers
You know what, addressing disparities is also not malice, nor is it ineffective. Stop trying to protect old disparities as if it’s some sort of fact of life. Pfffft.
Exactly that flawed framing is where this flawed logic gets its footing if you will.
@@jackgraham3 fact of life it is.
@@MadsterV No, Yoda. It straight up isn’t.
Notice how graphics is at number 8 of 10. Graphics have been plenty sufficient for 15 years, devs need to stop wasting years on photoreal graphics and just make more games.
that's all they know now , i blame the owners of the comapanys , they hire a bunch of clowns who want to keep making new stuff that nobody cares about .
This. It's just batshit insane that we live in a post-Crysis era, and people are still graphix-whorin' around.
Besides, the biggest issue with most modern (AAA) games is the total lack of optimization and insane bloat. There's no real justification for most games being over 50GB in size, not to mention 200!
Honestly I prefer N64 graphics over the modern stuff... We've lost _fun_ in the pursuit of _realism._
There's one thing that sets games apart from other media, and that's the interactivity. You can have nicer graphics in movies, you can have great stories in books. Studios that don't focus on gameplay don't know what their job is.
And graphics? Crysis 3 is 11 years old and still doesn't look bad. We are deep in the diminishing returns to a point the best gaming GPU has the same power as the fastest supercomputer of 2004. Animations are nicer but my character still gets stuck on a tree stump.
I think the absolute lion share of the 4% "other", are people who prefer to stay 100% anonymous in surveys.
Who knows, these days it could be a decent percentage of people that identify as non-binary. The female percentage is probably boosted a little by men identifying as women too.
yep the others are people that don`t want too be exposed, they are woman or men that like too be anonymous.
Extrapolate the other rate: 3.28% are male
I used to be hyper focused on "Exciting gameplay"...
Now my primary trigger is "If the art LOOKS even remotely D.E.I", I switch off the advert/trailer and do something else.
I'm never putting a single CENT towards anything that even reminds me of D.E.I.
Same man. I was stoked af on Silent Hill and Perfect Dark coming back, then I saw the character models for it, and immediately lost interest. Idgaf how fun it is, I'm not supporting this bs anymore
Thank you for doing your part.
@@gnarwhal7562I’m assuming you mean for Silent Hill 2, as far as I can tell Perfect Dark is basically as woke now as it was then
Yeah, there's an insane amount of other games to play so why even bother with stuff that's signaling the woke cult's message.
@@Level_Eleventhat jawline is brand new though
Someone playing Candy Crush on their phone is as much a gamer as someone playing Solitaire is a card shark.
It was funny to me that "Attractive characters" was actually the number one thing people wanted out of games in Japan
Waifus man.
What a great slap in the face to western developer modern game.
I’m one of those people who voted and I gotta say I’m glad they had this poll and they should continue to do more. Also, other companies should
yep, i also pariticapted and gladly almost every category DMC won, we want to see DMC6 soon enough because capcom have been milking RE continously and simultaneously
They should also TAKE IN CONSIDERATION the poll's result and not just making one
What's so frustrating is that they needed a survey to see what was patently obvious. To make matters worse, this survey will likely be ignored and they'll keep making games for the 4%.
You're right, but not because they have the choice.
Game dev time is so long now a days, so we're seeing the industry adapt to the feminism push that happened over half a decade ago.
It's just being born visible now.
The problem is that everyone is so tired of DEI socio political talks infesting media that it's basically a death sentence.
They've sailed out too far to course correct so just have to keep going in the hopes to recoup some losses.
Don't get me wrong, they dont get any sympathy from me - they did this to themselves, both aiming for highly costly technical fx, rendering and tech and pandering to women is a misery of their own making. They believed the stats that women were the biggest spenders and also the deciders on spending on media years ago with Netflix and instead of fact checking ran with it.
We'll see more games companies release half baked life support DEI games over the next couple years until the ship eventually turns around.
In the mean time indie devs are smaller so can move faster and achieve a more precise impactful experience so I'd just focus your attention there instead.
Anytime the most important feature of a character is their gender you instantly know its a shallow, heartless, and shell of what it should be.
Making games for Santa, Unicorns, Faeries and the modern audience is doomed to fail. Imaginary beings don't buy games.
When Corpo don't listen the customer, they will go under. The customer is King and not the Corpos.
Exactly which is why im over being mad about this. I just give up. These companies wana go woke then they can go broke since woke people dont even seem to like woke games. And like you said the market will fix itself over time, either the companies lose money over and over again until they go bankrupt, or they stop catering to a nonexisting consumer and make a product that is catered to the majority in order to make their precious money. At the end of the day these businesses are all about money and if their games fail they are not making money. Ball is in their court, the corpos have to make a choice and if they make the wrong one they can start looking for a new job since the one they currently have may not exist in the next 4-5 years.
Money talks and talks the loudest , your right.
Every game studio that *_genuinely_* cares about their audience has a responsibility to conduct yearly surveys like this to ensure that they know what their customers want. There should also be "review" surveys of all of the games they released that year asking customers what they liked and disliked about the games released that year and what could be done differently in the future. Actual engagement with their customers.
Not responsibility,no, free market means they can do whatever they want. Now, if they want to keep making money, they should listen to these polls and make them frequently and regularly.
If it's a live service game, it should be monthly.
@@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180 That's why I said "any studio that genuinely cares about their audience" and not simply "every studio."
Capcom knows the data of their demographic and they still go forward with this ESG/modern audience nonsense.
This survey happened earlier this year.
Most of Capcom ESG titles have been in development longer than this survey has been available, making them incapable of scrapping projects that were near completion.
You should keep your blackpilled opinion in check for a few years to see if they're games start to reflect this survey before you write them off completely.
@@RaifSeverence Surveys like these already existed. It just they will inflate those percentages by including mobile people into in the mix when their aren't PC/Console gamers. Ever game studios (Not just Capcom) should've done this years ago to figure out what there core demographic of people that buying their games. Instead of taken the ESG nonsense they "'think" will increase sales, which it doesn't.
It takes a long time to steer a big ship. This is the iceberg warning, and Capcom has time to listen to it. Hopefully they do.
Unlike other AAA companies, Capcom still maintain the attractiveness of the playable characters. I don't understand why some people still think that Capcom's recent games are woke.
The high executived get tons of DEI Blackrock money, so they go filthy rich. That way, they care no more what happenso to game, franchise or company
One of the 4% other is Mercante
wow 😂 and the girl from sweet baby inc
Methcuntay
3% ego
they are paul the bird eating alien , mars attack do really be real ,smh
4% or more like 1% exist of wmn gamers lol
Don't let Alyssa Mercante see this. She'll claim it's false data. XD
she's in the 4%, why listen to her?
She is with that 4% modern audiences lolz
@@keungwan5901 My comment is actually poking fun on her rant, where she said, the video game industry is "diverse, naturally." So, if this poll is an example of anything, it shows how little she truly knows. XD
@@keungwan5901 only americans listen to american nonesense the world outside knows what to ignore .
@@DanielS2001 when ever a woman speaks my ears close automatically like to egyotian tomb doors , sealed shut lol
I used to be a fan of Capcom but ever since they made a deal with woke localizers I'm just not interested anymore
That as well as them taking a heavy-handed anti-modding stance recently also soured my opinion of them.
My disdain for Capcom started when Resident Evil 6 and SF x Tekken came out. I only buy their stuff only if my friends play one of their games as well.
No more mediocre RE remakes.
@@ElAssoWipe-o no more RE5 Remake
I will never forgive Capcom and their woke tourist army for ruining Resident Evil 3 Remake.
4 percent that is catered to over the other 96%
To the point where we can’t even call our character male or female in game.
The change to body type A B was one of the most pointless and pretentious changes in gaming history
@@firenze6478 I'm so glad other people are noticing how ridiculous this is. I'd even be okay with "Masculine" and "Feminine," but "Type A" and "Type B" or "Type 1" and "Type 2" make me feel like the devs are insulting my intelligence
The intolerant minority always gets its way over the tolerant majority.
only americans litsten to that nonesense , but all jokes aside , gamers will keep playing games untilll they change the law that games shld be ilegal .
@firenze6478 haha I'm actually surprised the survey didn't list the respondents as body type 1's and 2's.
I think there are some 5heads in the industry that see polls like this and assume if they change games to be more appealing to women that they'll get an even BIGGER playerbase, but instead all they really do is shrink the male playerbase.
Not that they shouldn't make games that appeal to women, but that they should make original IPs for that instead of altering something that already has a dedicated fanbase.
But then they'd have to take an actual risk and they aren't gonna do that.
Capcom's own data pretty clearly shows that if you want to appeal to women, murder mysteries, romance games, and hot stylish male characters, along with zeldalike gameplay and aesthetic beautiful art style is pretty much the way to do it. Guess how many AAA companies are making games like that? Almost none.
@@Otome_chan311 I'd say Capcom has a great series there in the form of Ace Attorney. That's a murder mystery series with a stylish main character, untimed gameplay, compelling stories, and a difficulty that basically amounts to 'here's 7 big fat hints as to what you need to do!' And it appeals to everyone.
You can't just pander. Nobody likes that.
if you know what msot women care about you'lll have your answer on why there aren't more wmn gamers , same on why there aren't more women crawiliing in sewrs working and oilriggs and gold mining etc .
High fives all around for the chads that voted Dino Crisis. Capcom can't keep the franchise on ice forever; not with those stats.
Wanna bet? Lol
Us millennials remember and represent.
My wife plays quite a bit of mobile games. I asked her if she considered herself gamer and she laughed.
your wife has a brain , not many have that so consider yoursefe lucky .
47 percent of console games are women. Same with pc. Your wife is not included in those numbers. So… laugh away.
Nice you got one that isnt a solipsist.
@@jackgraham3 lol no.
@@Radec_G lol yes.
We also need to take into account that many of these votes are 'raise awareness' votes. The reason that Dino Crisis gets so many votes is the fans' way of telling Capcom 'we want to see the series revived'. Also, Street Fighter scoring so low is probably the fans telling Capcom to focus on another IP, like Darkstalkers.
Too much focus on Street Fighter and RE. IMO, RE franchise should just focus on the mainline sequels instead of remaking every past game before them.
@@railmacher1303 nah, I like what they are doing. They basically are doing what they wanted to do twenty years ago - remake all re games with the re engine. Can't wait to see RE1 with TODAY'S tech. But I understand your sentiment.
Yet we'll probably never see another true Megaman X title ever.
@@ASNS117Zero Sad since X9 ended on a cliffhanger, and another X title or two would help tie the continuity between X8 and CM.
Just look at the "announcer" in the battle hub for Street Fighter 6.
We don't talk about that.
Temu Ruby Rhod?
Are you talking about the announcer voice or what?
They are talking about the character Eternity in SF6, I unironically mash through any cutscene with him in it or close the game entirely when my small children are around, there's certain things young children shouldn't see.
Also, gender and race swaps in the game instead of returning characters. Pretty much the whole woke-bag.
Don't forget, Capcom USA is in San Francisco so Japan gets it's localization confused by actual degeneracy.
That question from Capcom is a dangerous one.
Careful what you wish for.
If you love an old franchise, don't as for a modern remake. You won't like what you get.
Mostly correct, but occasionally they do it right and Capcom has a better history than most. The RE1 remake was basically perfect and the RE2 reboot was great too. RE3 was a miss, but RE4 was a hit. And the Ace Attourney collections are just nice to have. So . . . yeah, I'm more OK with it from them than others.
Which is why I'm scared of them remaking Dino Crisis, also I have no hope of them remaking Resident Evil 5 without drastically changing it.
@@MidlifeCrisisJoe True. Capcom are perhaps the ones that have made the best (meaning, most faithful to the original) remakes. However, their sequels have left a lot to be desired. The Ui alone of the latest Street Fighter game is an embarrassment.
I'd say it's pretty hard to mess up Mega Man 12, Mega Man X9, or Capcom vs. SNK 3...
@@budgetcoinhunter It's really not. Remember Mighty Nr. 9? And just look at the performance of the latest KoF titles. Frankly, fighting games is one of the hardest genres out there to get right. Even seasoned fighting game devs like Arc System works manage to mess it up.
You can safely add that 4% to the 82% tbh. They'll eventually 41%
COLD
Cold is encouraging them to continue down that path instead of giving them the hard truth.
@@ssjgokuhan fact
@@denisn8336 cold facts ,you mean
@@jeofthevirtuoussand yes they are
oops. Capcom said the quite part out loud. pretty sure they lost 999999999 ESG points over this.
I teach economics in China. Every year we have a unit on market share and targeting sectors of the market. On this topic one of the questions I ask is ‘how many of you play computer/console/phone games?” I have been asking this same question for the last 8 years. While my sample size is small, and from a very specific demographic (rich, elite school bound) and much is anecdotal, the percentage is about what this survey from Capcom. The phone dominates here in China. Most of my students do not play computer games, and the console is a distant second. The dads seem to play the consoles more. Most of my girls use the phone to shop (using Taobao) or to chat. Yes some of the girls play games but it a small fraction of the boys.
The first time I asked the question I was a little surprised. Now I accept it as fact.
This is why I have always found the games industry's argument of “the modern audience” so interesting (read funny/stupid/ignorant). Its taken them this long to finally figure this out. I have no sympathy for these game industry's. They want to push this garbage they are more than welcome to reap the rewards (economically speaking) of their endeavors. The market will flush this bad out and open opportunities for new developers to give gamers the games they want.
To my experience, most girls/women do play video games, but not with the intentionality that the males do. They also consider the identity of "gamer" a negative or masculine trait, as such, won't self identify with it.
In my family, the females spend way more time (in pure hours) playing video games than the males.
@barongerhardt that's your family, so that isnt everyone.. I probably play more hours, more seriously than your entire family combined girl and boy and "other lol".
@@natea4828 And you are a perfect example self identity issue. You are proud of that much gaming, yet my mother who likely puts in 10+ hours a day playing a phone/tablet game while watching tv would never admit to playing that much nor call herself a gamer.
@@barongerhardt I'm very proud, actually I don't really care very much what anyone thinks about how much I play and not playing mobile games either.. mobile games don't make you a gamer.
I find it funny that someone who teaches economics thinks that the gaming industry is going to be based on what's actually popular v. the ongoing credit cycle and what the banks are willing to fund.
If the only money for games is ESG money. The market will CRASH long before new developers get the chance to give gamers what they want. Or at least that's my Hyman Minsky inspired take on it.
My mom has always hated video games, and she plays Candy Crush. anyone that includes Mobile gaming in the gamer crowd is a joke.
Yes, especially when you are a pc/console game developer.
It makes little to no sense not to have games that do not cater to your niche in development.
I wish companies would be more boots on the ground asking their customers not marketing what they want.
We do not want what these marketing department heads are being told we want from their non gamer friends whom have consulting firms in the gaming industry.
But will Capcom actually take the election results to heart?
hopefully
im hoping for dmc6
My heart goes out to those people standing for the truth. Its not easy or pleasant but facts are facts. As a woman I played videogames and was what is referred to as a "tomboy". But even I know that most girls prefer things tailored to the feminine side. I grew up doing whatever I enjoyed, I liked Ninja Turtles and My Little Pony.
The thing is most people trying to make a point out of being different is that they are trying to make themselves feel better by forcing majority to suffer changes to their games and fandoms. Whereas I went about my life enjoying what I loved and ignoring what I didn't and putting forth positive vibes to anyone who would accept them.
Most girls also stop playing videogames because other girls/women don't approve of videogames. There is still massive stigma by women (mostly older) against them. This has actually been really bad for women overall since the videogame market is constantly increasing sector of the job market and well paying career that women essentially chose not to be a part of out of these long held stigmas.
This super election is so great. Monster Hunter is number one in Japan and in my heart.
Wish there was a checkbox for online gaming that you can opt into for completely unmoderated unrestricted trash talk.
Opt in for a trash talk toxicity meter
Perhaps call it "Entering the Hard R Cafe"?
Even among mobile gaming, men are almost certainly the majority of players. All of the highest grossing mobile games are games that mostly males are going to play like PUBG mobile, Honor of Kings, Genshin Impact, Roblox, etc. Candy Crush is basically one of the only game out of the highest grossing mobile games where you'd expect a larger than normal female player base.
Nah, in the Mobile space I'd say it's 50/50. Almost every woman of every age I know plays something in their phones, even if it's some simple unknown game.
The companies look at 14% and think. Whooo, untapped market. We have to appeal to them to grow our base.
It's not untapped market and the number is likely much lower considering how many didn't vote from the older age groups.
It's not just the mobile gamers that skew it female, but play frequency may be the biggest factor. I saw a study that showed that people who play at least 30 minutes of games per week are split 50/50 between male and female. However, as the hours played goes up, so does the percent male. By 20 hrs/wk, it was 95% male. The vast majority of manhours spent on gaming is done by men.
I am going to say this as a woman who games as well.
The KIND of games that women play are also vastly different from what men play!
Women don't really play fort nite or call of duty. Women tend to play J-RPG's, farm simulators and similar
And I know that because I am totally on that train myself! I LOVE Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Xenoblade and so forth. That's my jam.
I don't play call of duty, it doesn't speak to me. And why should I spend my precious free time on stuff I don't even like?!
Do you play animal crossing or sims?
@@jmanakajosh9354 Well I did play some animal crossing at one point XD
I was also highly addicted to Mario Smash Bro's when I was a kid.
And my sister is really into Zelda, but I will say new Zelda games are also one of the franchises with a very split fanbase between genders. Girls really like the elf boy.
Real rich coming from a corpo that started On-Disc DLC bs, just because they maybe telling the truth here doesn't mean they're not hypocrites.
Bingo
Listen, I'm all for women getting more into gaming. I've seen female streamers play the Ace Attorney series and Resident Evil and that makes me happy because those games are awesome. But let's just accept the fact that guys play video games more than women. Like, actual video games. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen a girl stream a Mega Man X game. I thought I did once, but it was a cross dresser so it didn't count. Nothing wrong with women not wanting to play Mega Man X, it's just not their thing and that's alright.
I did see a Vtuber play through a few MMX games as well as Megaman Zero. Not sure if you would count that.
A few of the hololive members have played megaman 1 and korone often plays old nes games like the jp transformers game.
@@nonotorious1467 yeah but Koro-san is an exception, not the rule. She's the unofficial ambassador of oldschool games.
I did see some Japanese female streaming Megaman X and classic Megaman
Irys played Megaman 2, X4 and Zero 1 and 2...I know koyori did 3 at least
im in my mid 40s and have never met a women who play video games. every women i ever met and dated all hated video games. i know just this one girl who i dated a few yrs ago, she plays Sudoku but that isn't a video game it's a puzzle game on paper.
So, back in the 80's and 90's at the Arcades, you saw 100% Male? 🤣
@@Ulquiorra105 actually yes... their girlfriends or any other handfull of women who were there just stood there they didn't enjoy being there. It's safe to say vast majority of women don't play video games
@@badboy-gn8fu Yeah, the 14% Female stat seems accurate on the surface. However, probably only 5% or less of that are serious female gamers. The majority of female gamers, they're either "posers" or only play a handful of games. If you go over to their house, you're not going to see 200+ video games on a bookcase that they curated.
Weird I'm 35 and remember girls actively playing video games in arcades in the 90s and have a few female friends who play video games
@@badboy-gn8fu Well... my fiancee (a female) loves playing games.
The DEI pushers will say these results are not representative to the average gamer. But the data is here
You can guarantee that some of those 14% of women were not strictly born that way….
back in 2013 I worked at Gamestop during college. I worked form 2013 to 2014 and I am sure it was 90 percent male customer base. The only time I saw like 4 girls walk in at once was when one of them came looking for a video game for her boyfriend. I did get surprised at the amount of older men that came looking for games but all of them always came looking for games like scrabble. I remember this Vietnam veteran who always asked if we had the PSP scrabble game and other games sort of like that. I think I saw more old guys the age of my dad that gamed than girls my age.
Plenty of dads came in looking to buy games for their kids. Which in the modern era basically meant Nintendo only, which is why Nintendo just keep staying relevant.
Pretty accurate in my opinion. Also, I wish to see a new Dino Crisis but I'm very afraid of the DEI-fication of Regina character and many other things. I used to trust Capcom very easy, now I'm always with a step behind approach. ⭐⭐⭐
What we learned
Most gamers are still male, 80%
Most gamers, including women, want attractive characters
Most gamers care more about gameplay and attractive characters than graphics by a wiiiiiide margin
I kinda wonder if people find Megaman attractive…
@@Doggieworld3Show You'd be shocked at the amount of Megaman r34 that's out there.
Don't look it up. Trust me. Don't.
Its higher. The 40 - and 50 year olds numbers are off. We didn't vote.
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i saw many statistics and the 40 - 50 are the Majority of Gamers
I'm currently 38 so I'll be in that bracket in afew years lol
40-50 year olds (like me) aren't usually the terminally online generation, so we won't vote in a survey like that. I'd be more interested if a Gallup pole was done on it or some other "man on the street" survey group did it.
@@robhulson what about people from other regions who don't speak english or like to vote online .
Yeah, I believe the % is off on age, 20s / 30s / 40s are almost evenly distributed for PC/Console, it's the only stat I disagree with. Male-Female-Whatever_rocks_yer_Bu**t seems to be ok.
Onimusha in the corner crying.
As much as I enjoyed the first 2 Onimusha games, I feel like there's something about that style of game that struggles to hold its appeal beyond the PS2 era. The graphics and cutscenes were mind blowing at the time, but the gameplay was nothing special. It did have great atmosphere. A new one would need to abandon the old, fixed camera presentation and that would pose a real challenge in making it still feel like an Onimusha game.
@@palaceofwisdom9448 itll be remaked surely, as they already did this survey
@@palaceofwisdom9448Onimusha 4 did abandon the fixed camera. It was fully 3D, but it was so late in the ps2 lifespan that most people ignored it sadly
@@palaceofwisdom9448 agreed hmm I'd said if they were gonna remake it I'd want something closer to sekiro.
Auto Modellista, Viewtiful Joe, Okami and Darkstalkers are joining the loneliest reunion.
Dude said it, concentrate on what 20-40 year old wants because they have, money.
The women play as many games as the men stat is meaningless because it all about the genres and platforms... more women play on mobile and free to play games relative to men who have their own preferences. Most capcom games lean heavily toward a male audience.
"Most gamers are female!"
Candy Crush doesn't count.
The 50% is only when you add mobile. They count women playing candy crush as gamers.
Make me understand why these companies insist upon pandering to the smallest percentage of players when it's been repeatedly proven to fail, and spectacularly at that.
It's like they don't want any money.
4%? Sounds like they are the 41% crowd.
I've heard these surveys are big effing deals to game companies. Hopefully this opens their eyes a bit.
It will be to Capcom. But most other companies in the west are filled with DEI activists at this point. Unless they're removed, little will change.
4% "others" is way higher than I expected, sadly. 1 out of 25 gamers have issues apparently.
Some of them may simply not want to self identify. But yea, the "non binary" nonsense is a social trend.
many people who put "other" on surveys only do it to"pass" on the question to maintain anonymity. most people at my work put "other" on work surveys so that the bosses have a harder time figuring out who answered what when they dont like the answer.
What anonymity? Are you giving your name and address to the survey?
Nah, do this poll with a "The Sims 4" demographic and see it be reversed.
No it won't. Most of the players are still gonna be men. Granted it'll be closer to even than the Capcom poll.
@davidpowers9178 lol. If you think the Sims is play by a male majority you really have a disconnect with the real world.
@@davidpowers9178 They legit did a poll for The Sims. 45.37% males 52.42% females 1.32% non-binary.
Let's alienate like 60% of our audience to try and capture that other 4%.
Other...
Aliens confirmed 👽
Also big problem with replayability in games is that many extra content is locked behind a microtransaction. 10 years ago you had to play a game multiple times, different ways to unlock a skin, weapon or other extras which gave you an insentive to replay the game but now you just have to pay to get extra content.
I think Melee is not shocked because she wasn't around when SF or particularly SF 2 came out. Older gamers like me and Craig were there when SF was a cultural phenomenon. Younger gamers don't realise just how humongous that game was globally. Having said that, lovely to see Mega Man up there still
With this being Capcom, I'm honestly surprised they had stats for male and female. Would have expected it to have been type 1 and type 2. 🤡
Yeah, someone rolled a Nat20, and got away with it!
Japan not being censored by the mob...yet.
Wherever i smell woke, i am keeping my money tight.
I'm 50 years old and still enjoy gaming. I grew up playing games on Atari, Colecovision, and the original NES.
I did take about a 20 year break from gaming while raising kids, but I'm back....😊
Bro, this video is so based, companies does not know the weight of this information or purposely blind eyeing it.
What i think, they keep doing this DEI and ESG nonsense is that we are not the target audience anymore, i think what they mean buly modern audience are teens and kids, we after 10 years might be done with gaming, but these new gamers will have the purchase power and all this agenda will be normalized to them, so they might lose money now but the next gen will compensate their loss.
Edit: Also you're soooo right about Dante, girls wanna be with Dante, boys wanna be Dante. In case of Chun Li boys wanna be with Chun Li and Girls wanna be Chun Li, and thats very normal.
Attractive characters were the number 1 demand voted in Japan and the number 2 trait in the west in this poll. It's insanely important. Making games for the 4% will absolutely destroy your game's audience.
The disabled fighting game player Alex was referring to was actually named BrolyLegs.
The same guy LTG mocked? Wee shame.
@@TargetRenegade Well, LowTierGoon is more like LowIQViolentImpulsive, so...
Capcom bend the knee to woke culture too, this is hypocrisy
A lot of chicks think video games are lame or unattractive, some girls won't date a guy who's a gamer. Tinder should poll this
while raiding the clothes shop (an expensive brand one preferably) at the same time
50 - 50 my @$$. They just got some legitimate research material and it doesn’t match their “estimates” at all. Look at Capcom’s library, it’s mostly action and fighting games, it’s full of genres that men want to play. It is that simple of a concept, so work with the majority audience’s needs to make MONEY.
I’d like dead rising to come back eventually. I’d like a remake of dead rising but not right now because there’s too much “modern audience” going on right now.
There are so many titles from Capcom and other companies i'd like to see revived but because of the times we're living in, i know it'll only hurt those franchises, so i rather be quiet about them
Basic market research, I hadn't heard of any studio doing that in the last decade, just making what they thought they'd like.
On the nose. I feel like mobile & Facebook gaming has the wins precisely because of this analytics data.
The majority of people who bought Horizon Zero Dawn, HZD: Forbidden West, and the Tomb Raider series are men. Because those are all action games. This runs completely counter to the argument that male gamers are misogynists. I always play Monster Hunter as a woman because they're aesthetically pleasing to look at. Plus, they have nice looking armor.
My sister plays the story bits then hand controlled to her husband to do the actions bits. They enjoy playing through singleplayer games that way.
All the CEO of Capcom sees is: "What, only 14% women?" We can do even better here. We need to make more games for them, we already have men in our pocket.
Growing up and looking at youtube videos, I noticed that quite a few women were uploading Oninusha, Code Veronica/RE3, Haunting Ground, and Devil May Cry let's plays. This is SUPER old CZcams mind you. A lot of girls like survival horror, or rather the super hardcore girls love it. Now, as far as the poll? I 100% think it's accurate. The real, HARDCORE Capcom super fans who follow crumbs of news and stuff like that are voting on this poll. Other women, aren't. Simple as that. I could even go as far as saying the average female gamer wouldn't name a Capcom game as their favorite that isn't Resident Evil.
Horror is pretty much a staple for girl gamers. But if you asked random girl gamers what capcom games they liked, almost certainly most would say phoenix wright. More hardcore would say okami because duh, but it's an obscure game that doesn't get a lot of eyes on it. The capcom survey is really accurate to women's tastes in gaming. Murder Mysteries, romance dating games, horror games, stylish dudes, etc. Not surprising at all.
@@Otome_chan311 Games like Pheonix Wright being the most popular games in Japan is kind of genius that they made a game both male and female want to play. Instead of trying to convert men's games into women's games, they should stick to making things people actually want.
@@cattysplat yeah that's what I try to tell people. It's not "just expect women to like men's media" and it's certainly not "stick a bunch of woke stuff in men's media to try and appeal to women". But rather just: "make games women actually want and enjoy". Apparently that's an utterly alien concept to game devs, despite Japanese companies seemingly managing to do it just fine.
Something surprising there is that music ranks higher than graphics. I feel everything else about this has already been said.
I live in Belgium grew up with almost all of my friends gamers.
But only met the first female gamer after 10 years and met the second one another 14 years later.
Since then I got online and met an American woman gamer who is probably more hardcore than me.
And that concludes 35 years of gaming meeting and becoming friends with over a hundred other gamers 3 of them being female.
P.S. I don't consider people who only play mobile games gamers.
Melee K speaks facts. Mobile Gaming is its own segment.
The 4% is the target consumer for the games industry and Hollywood
this lays waste to the narrative
I sure hope this convinces capcom to give us another megaman game, we megaman fans have been living off crumbs for a long time.
I am the 2%. Been gaming since pong, then the Atari 2600, etc. Why would I stop?
The best way to get women to play games is to recognize the stuff women love!
Women like adventures like Zelda, they like farming games, they like dressing people up and throwing parties in Sims...sure my gf loves Mortal Combat, she sees it as entertaining... but what does she actually play?
What does she actually spend time with? Zelda & Sims.
That's literally the results of the capcom survey. The highest rated game among women was basically "zelda but you play as a wolf" followed by a murdery mystery sim and a dating sim.
But this will not stop Crapcom from adding unnecessary bullish to their games to cater to a "modern audience"
Which part about Capcom's games in the last 5 years is woke though?
Will they allow themselves to use their own research data, though? Big companies are really dumb.
I wish CapCom would just give us Code Veronica Remake.
That's not all: Out of the girl/woman gamers many are recorded as such only because they live in a household where very active gamer boys/men have bought consoles/computers for gaming. Those girls/women have played a few games a few times (with very little enthusiasm) just because the boys/men have set everything up and introduced them to gaming.
So: without enthusiastic, very active gamer boy/men in the household most of those girls/women wouldn't have even tried gaming the few times they have and thus were recorded as "gamers".
I'm just sick of Capcom pandering to the woke west and their constant shoe-horning of photorealism with the RE Engine. Let's not forget the non-binary character creator in SF6 along with the walking 🏳⚧that is the World Tour announcer Eternity. Just make great games again.
Sorry, but we don't like cartoon graphics in our survival horror game that is based on an actual REAL-LIFE fear humans have of multibillion companies experimenting on the world and bring the end of it!
Photo-realism is the ONLY way to go!
@@4400seriesFAN I think ShirleyVelva meant games that aren't Resident Evil, but use the same RE Engine like Street Fighter 6. I agree since Alpha was peak art direction for Street Fighter.
@@4400seriesFAN Its not photo-realism thats important, its aesthetics and art direction that really determines how well a game will be and especially how long it will endure. Look at how many games from the PS3 and Xbox 360 generation which, at the time, were closer to photo-realism and many of them look woeful by comparison today. Its partly the graphics but alot of it is the aesthetic, so many browns and greys are just unappealing. Raw graphical power and being photo-realistic is not the be-all and end-all and never has been, otherwise games like Minecraft and Tetris wouldn't still be as popular as they are today!
Eternity was a facepalm for me.
@@4400seriesFANPhotorealism is the degenerate way to go. Enjoy the blandness, consoomer...
Yes. That's what I learned in the industry as well, a large portion of the numbers are inflated or inaccurate represented. For the employer I worked, we had around 85% male customer, 14% female, 1% didn't want to answer or gender-plus. However, we had guidance and rules, strictly forbidding to mention that.
Its actually rare that i make a character who looks like me, i think that would be boring.
I voted in that poll i hope it helps
Same here, I saw the video of max dood promoting it and I participated. I really want that Dino Crisis remake, as long as they don't mess up the faces like they did with some characters in SFV and MvC Infinite.