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Over 25% of Console Gamers are Female

Written by Scrooby on 30th June, 2009
Over 25% of Console Gamers are Female
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A study carried out in April 2008 by Nielsen Company found that around 50% of all PC gamers were actually female, came as quite a surprise. However, if you look at some individual games it wouldn’t really come as a surprise because with games such as The Sims 3, the majority of the players are women. That aside, it now seems that these women are branching out on the console sector because a new study has been carried out by the NPD Group, a leading American marketing company, which has found that 28% of console gamers are women. This 28% is a 5% rise on last years results which found that only 23% of console gamers and women. NPD explained…

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