but anon you HAVE to care about the bogeyman of the week! women bag! Black folk bad! homosexuals bad! trannies bad! get angry anon! get real autistic about it! YOU HAVE TO BE MAD ABOUT THE THINGS I TELL YOU TO BE MAD ABOUT
By female they mean troonys for you morons or there. No woman is playing a switch lol
ok but
what exactly is a "female" ?
How many of those were female at birth? Let's see those numbers.
Reminder that the methodology is fricked and inherently biased.
1. They're sending out surveys exclusively to people they KNOW own video game consoles based on purchase info, registration cards, or registration for gaming-related online accounts (XBL, PSN, etc)
2. They explicitly seek to form a survey base that's a "representative sample" of the total country's demographics, meaning that since roughly 50% of the population is female they INTENTIONALLY AIM to make sure that 50% of the people they send the surveys to are women. i.e., they send out 10,000 surveys total and 5,000 of those go to women and 5,000 go to men.
The results are essentially saying, "more women responded to our survey than men." That's it, nothing more. If 100% of the people sent surveys responded then they would automatically get a 50/50 male/female split because they intentionally split the recipients 50/50 male/female in the first place to be "fair" and "representative."
It's not a science, it's just math. And math, on its own, is amoral. People choosing to use a tool for evil doesn't make the tool itself evil. If someone grabs a rock and beats someone else to death with it, it's not the rock's fault.
>meaning that since roughly 50% of the population is female they INTENTIONALLY AIM to make sure that 50% of the people they send the surveys to are women.
Yeah no shit that's how you get accurate statistics moron. >nothing more. If 100% of the people sent surveys responded then they would automatically get a 50/50 male/female split
no because if more men than women owned consoles they would get back more women saying they don't own the consoles
>no because if more men than women owned consoles they would get back more women saying they don't own the consoles
You don't understand, they're only sending surveys to people who they know have purchased video games in the first place. It's not a randomized general survey that happens to include questions about video games, it's a video game-specific survey being sent to people who own video game consoles.
Imagine this... take an extremely male-dominated interest like WWE. Let's say I want to know what percentage of women watch WWE relative to men, but I want to have a "representative sample" of the country's population which is 50/50 male/female. So what I do is seek out 100 women who I already know watch WWE and ask them if they watch WWE and they all say yes. Then I need to survey men for comparison, so I find 100 men who I already know watch WWE and ask them if they watch WWE and they also all say yes. Well, there you have it! Out of 200 survey participants, 100 women said they watch WWE and 100 men said they watch WWE. Surely we can extrapolate this out to the whole population and conclude that 50% of all WWE viewers are women!
This is literally what they're doing, except with video games and 10,000 surveys (of which, 5,000 were sent to women who have video games in their household and 5,000 were sent to men who have video games in their household). Hand selecting a survey population of 50% women does not mean that the entire population of that interest is 50% women, it just means you fricking rigged your survey.
>anymore
It was always lies to to fool investors. In fact announced player numbers and sales altogether are always estimations and projections. Its one big fricking scheme.
>In fact announced player numbers and sales altogether are always estimations and projections. Its one big fricking scheme.
The latter depends upon what kind of game you're talking about.
Pretty easy to know how many accounts logged in etc. and what games they were playing. The question is all in how they determine that.
For one game for the company I work for, they've never bothered putting any advanced stuff in so the player count is a number updated once an hour and is calculated based on how many people have caused a save game state to the server in the last hour. Which is obviously somewhat misleading but is probably not far off at any given hourly update since game saves are caused by playing the game in various ways.
Meanwhile you have others where the online player count is tracked as being logged in. It doesn't matter if they do anything else as long as they have not sent the command to log out.
So sure, the player count is technically there but if you're encouraged to be AFK in some way (which a lot of games do now, though not ours) this stat is rather pointless.
And then you have things like daily/monthly player stats which are HIGHLY gamed by adding shit like dailies. Just because you abused players into giving in to FOMO doesn't mean the player count for whatever game you're talking about is worth a damn.
Biological females like Animal Crossing, anon. That's just false. They're probably getting this statistic from trannies or people's mother's who registered their child accounts
They're getting the statistics from their rigged methodology. See:
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Reminder that the methodology is fricked and inherently biased.
1. They're sending out surveys exclusively to people they KNOW own video game consoles based on purchase info, registration cards, or registration for gaming-related online accounts (XBL, PSN, etc)
2. They explicitly seek to form a survey base that's a "representative sample" of the total country's demographics, meaning that since roughly 50% of the population is female they INTENTIONALLY AIM to make sure that 50% of the people they send the surveys to are women. i.e., they send out 10,000 surveys total and 5,000 of those go to women and 5,000 go to men.
The results are essentially saying, "more women responded to our survey than men." That's it, nothing more. If 100% of the people sent surveys responded then they would automatically get a 50/50 male/female split because they intentionally split the recipients 50/50 male/female in the first place to be "fair" and "representative."
If you intentionally make 50% of the survey population female then you'll get a roughly 50% female response, but that doesn't mean that selection of women is actually 50% of the overall GAMING population, they're just 50% of the SURVEY population BY DESIGN.
Stop posting this every fricking day, this just tells you how many morons participate in worthless polls. The “women” are probably all troons with no lives so they take polls all fricking day.
If every single trans person in the US owned 8 Nintendo Switch's they would still account for less than 10% of Switch's sold. All you folks have a terminal case of troony's on the brain, it can't be healthy to think of them this much.
Women buy them for their children, but because the transaction shows they were the buyer, the morons doing these statistics think these mothers are the owners.
Every woman was playing Animal Crossing when the pandemic started why is this a shocking revelation to Ganker? The Switch is the obvious female console the only thing it lacks is Sims 4
My ex bought a Switch at launch exclusively for Splatoon 2. She played BotW until S2 came out then dropped everything for it. I think she racked up over 1000 hours on S2. Last time I stalked her Twitter, she said something about surpassing 600 hours in S3. I regret not playing with her ;_;
Like that "girl" that killed budweiser? I mean yeah it makes sense that trannies make up the majority of the switch playerbase. Have you interacted with one? they're mentally unstable.
>this explains a lot
no ti doesnt. >mom goes to bestbuy to buy her kid son a switch >statistic gets created that a female bought a switch so shes part of the gamer demographic
this is how those statistics get made anon.
t. did time as wage slave in retail
Dude who gives a shit? Journalists always try to push this false narrative that no one actually believes, move on with your life.
but anon you HAVE to care about the bogeyman of the week! women bag! Black folk bad! homosexuals bad! trannies bad! get angry anon! get real autistic about it! YOU HAVE TO BE MAD ABOUT THE THINGS I TELL YOU TO BE MAD ABOUT
Ganker is all about the ragebait threads, there's barely any actual vidya discussion
yeah, this place has become insufferable because of it.
Call them what they are, israelites
*female
This. I wouldn't be surprised if 20-30% of switch owners identifying as female are trannies because they picked up Pokemon or Animal Crossing.
this. take a good 20 percent outta that and you have troons.
You can't believe gender stats anymore, especially for gaming
Too many trans
Reminder that the methodology is fricked and inherently biased.
1. They're sending out surveys exclusively to people they KNOW own video game consoles based on purchase info, registration cards, or registration for gaming-related online accounts (XBL, PSN, etc)
2. They explicitly seek to form a survey base that's a "representative sample" of the total country's demographics, meaning that since roughly 50% of the population is female they INTENTIONALLY AIM to make sure that 50% of the people they send the surveys to are women. i.e., they send out 10,000 surveys total and 5,000 of those go to women and 5,000 go to men.
The results are essentially saying, "more women responded to our survey than men." That's it, nothing more. If 100% of the people sent surveys responded then they would automatically get a 50/50 male/female split because they intentionally split the recipients 50/50 male/female in the first place to be "fair" and "representative."
Statistics is such a pseudoscience. No clue why they made us learn that shit in school.
Just cause you're too stupid to understand what a "standard deviation" is doesn't make it pseudoscience.
You're right, it's not even pseudoscience
It's just straight up lies.
Dumb as a rock.
Stop talking about yourself.
It's not a science, it's just math. And math, on its own, is amoral. People choosing to use a tool for evil doesn't make the tool itself evil. If someone grabs a rock and beats someone else to death with it, it's not the rock's fault.
Morons not knowing how statistics work does is not having them be used for evil.
It's important to learn and understand statistics so you can see through bullshitters manipulating you with them.
>meaning that since roughly 50% of the population is female they INTENTIONALLY AIM to make sure that 50% of the people they send the surveys to are women.
Yeah no shit that's how you get accurate statistics moron.
>nothing more. If 100% of the people sent surveys responded then they would automatically get a 50/50 male/female split
no because if more men than women owned consoles they would get back more women saying they don't own the consoles
>no because if more men than women owned consoles they would get back more women saying they don't own the consoles
You don't understand, they're only sending surveys to people who they know have purchased video games in the first place. It's not a randomized general survey that happens to include questions about video games, it's a video game-specific survey being sent to people who own video game consoles.
Imagine this... take an extremely male-dominated interest like WWE. Let's say I want to know what percentage of women watch WWE relative to men, but I want to have a "representative sample" of the country's population which is 50/50 male/female. So what I do is seek out 100 women who I already know watch WWE and ask them if they watch WWE and they all say yes. Then I need to survey men for comparison, so I find 100 men who I already know watch WWE and ask them if they watch WWE and they also all say yes. Well, there you have it! Out of 200 survey participants, 100 women said they watch WWE and 100 men said they watch WWE. Surely we can extrapolate this out to the whole population and conclude that 50% of all WWE viewers are women!
This is literally what they're doing, except with video games and 10,000 surveys (of which, 5,000 were sent to women who have video games in their household and 5,000 were sent to men who have video games in their household). Hand selecting a survey population of 50% women does not mean that the entire population of that interest is 50% women, it just means you fricking rigged your survey.
>anymore
It was always lies to to fool investors. In fact announced player numbers and sales altogether are always estimations and projections. Its one big fricking scheme.
>In fact announced player numbers and sales altogether are always estimations and projections. Its one big fricking scheme.
The latter depends upon what kind of game you're talking about.
Pretty easy to know how many accounts logged in etc. and what games they were playing. The question is all in how they determine that.
For one game for the company I work for, they've never bothered putting any advanced stuff in so the player count is a number updated once an hour and is calculated based on how many people have caused a save game state to the server in the last hour. Which is obviously somewhat misleading but is probably not far off at any given hourly update since game saves are caused by playing the game in various ways.
Meanwhile you have others where the online player count is tracked as being logged in. It doesn't matter if they do anything else as long as they have not sent the command to log out.
So sure, the player count is technically there but if you're encouraged to be AFK in some way (which a lot of games do now, though not ours) this stat is rather pointless.
And then you have things like daily/monthly player stats which are HIGHLY gamed by adding shit like dailies. Just because you abused players into giving in to FOMO doesn't mean the player count for whatever game you're talking about is worth a damn.
this explains a lot
>grand order, destiny, two rainbow 6 subs and apex legends
lmfao
so they're just hornier users
yes who are latin american and are obsessed with blacked
what is this? does this mean there are boards on reddit called blacked and playstation?
the substantially more funny party of this image is how there are two rainbow 6 subs and one of them is the third most crossed over sub at 40%
rainbow 6cels are all blacked cucks!!!!
So blacks are more likely to buy a playstation than xbox. Its xboxs loss, they care about such things.
Reddit block all the porn subreddits. The frick man?
leddit is currently having a civil war
By female they mean troonys for you morons or there. No woman is playing a switch lol
>No woman is playing a switch lol
Women love Nintendo lol
>troony
thats Sony you're thinking of
>identifying as female
WELL THERE YOU GO
Biological females like Animal Crossing, anon. That's just false. They're probably getting this statistic from trannies or people's mother's who registered their child accounts
They're getting the statistics from their rigged methodology. See:
If you intentionally make 50% of the survey population female then you'll get a roughly 50% female response, but that doesn't mean that selection of women is actually 50% of the overall GAMING population, they're just 50% of the SURVEY population BY DESIGN.
>troonymale Crossdressing
>biological female
K E K
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my sister have a switch (her bf bought her one) and she have 250h on AC
No need to lie ESLtroon
actualy females love animal crossing and similar games
this is just a known fact
(me)
actual*
Literally every girl I know that plays games and is an adult with a job owns a switch. You're moronic.
ok but
what exactly is a "female" ?
How many of those were female at birth? Let's see those numbers.
please tell you’re not that insecure with your male ego
Amogus
>aussies and canadians are only 10% of posters
>ruin every board they touch
Impressive.
Russians, Indians and Chinese are so much fricking worse. I'd be surprised if those are 5% combined.
"female"
>female
I think Sony has the troony market locked down
This one always makes me laugh. It's so pathetic and ridiculous that it's hilarious.
I wish I could've been in the room when the Japanese heads of the company watched this.
Actual females, playstation is the trannies
What is PSissies explanation now?
>trannies don't like nintendo
based nips not catering to those troglodytes
does that include timmy's mom who bought it for her gay kid?
Alright now count trannies as men.
It's funny how there are more women than men in the united states and some dudes can't even get one.
Lies
Womeme love animal crossing and pokemon
>Mom buys console for her son
>Technically female owned console for moronic statistics
Stop posting this every fricking day, this just tells you how many morons participate in worthless polls. The “women” are probably all troons with no lives so they take polls all fricking day.
*female may also mean "male consumer with mental illness"
If every single trans person in the US owned 8 Nintendo Switch's they would still account for less than 10% of Switch's sold. All you folks have a terminal case of troony's on the brain, it can't be healthy to think of them this much.
Women buy them for their children, but because the transaction shows they were the buyer, the morons doing these statistics think these mothers are the owners.
I know what you're all thinking, but they're less than 0.5% of the US population. Games like AC attracted a ton of normie women to the Switch market.
""""female""""
"Female"
So why should I be upset?
Every woman was playing Animal Crossing when the pandemic started why is this a shocking revelation to Ganker? The Switch is the obvious female console the only thing it lacks is Sims 4
I'm female too (trans btw)
Especially if they're trans.
I always set my gender to female when asked online.
How many of these are moms?
i bought my mom a switch lite as a birthday gift so we could play Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics together
Post fingerprints.
out of my friends only one girl owns a console and it's a switch
Im a nintendo player and nintendo is doing the right thing catering to more audiences, animal crossing money is good
>female (assigned male at birth)
Yeah they all bought one in 2020 to play Animal Crossing do you have the memory of a goldfish?
>russian
>burgers in charge of understanding vodka runes
why would I give a singular shit about any of the -stan countries
>amerigolems don't even understand the things they hate
>they just bark at things at the whims of their yiddish masters
Okay but you still don't have to know a single -Stan country because they are so irreverent.
what does it explain?
i don't know a single female with a game console or computer
It means girls know how to hide their power levels better than you.
>shell game fallacy
peddle your mental illness elsewhere, loser
Women dont like troonystation and shitbox.
women don't seem to like gaming either.
here's your "females"
My ex bought a Switch at launch exclusively for Splatoon 2. She played BotW until S2 came out then dropped everything for it. I think she racked up over 1000 hours on S2. Last time I stalked her Twitter, she said something about surpassing 600 hours in S3. I regret not playing with her ;_;
I regret not fricking my exs in the ass.
RIP. Feels good man.
When the averages are compared, women have higher spending power. No wonder they have more Switch ownership.
Don't know but most of my friends and their gfs have a Switch, and they just happens to be the whipped beta type.
So is no one gonna post the official stat by Nintendo that says Switch users areb75% male?
Only virgins think girls don't play video games.
>female
How many of those are actual girls?
reminder moms buying their kids a console count as "female gamer" in these surveys
list of potential factors artificially inflating this number:
>parents buying shit for their kids
>"women" (male)
>lies
but how many of them were born female?
>mom buys console for her son with money made by her husband
>female in the us
Like that "girl" that killed budweiser? I mean yeah it makes sense that trannies make up the majority of the switch playerbase. Have you interacted with one? they're mentally unstable.
how did the troony derangement syndrome get this bad
>this explains a lot
no ti doesnt.
>mom goes to bestbuy to buy her kid son a switch
>statistic gets created that a female bought a switch so shes part of the gamer demographic
this is how those statistics get made anon.
t. did time as wage slave in retail
Based on what survey by who? I wasn't asked and I own a switch.
considering how many fricking otome games are on the damn thing I'm not surprised.
Single moms buying it for their kids. And troons. And a select few girl gamers.