I'm speculating in a subject I don't know all that well, but....
Aren't women-focused games generally less long-term engaging than male-focused games?
At least in my experience, the games that I perceive women generally want to play are more "5 minutes here and there" type games vs "3 hours straight" type games. So perhaps there are more women playing games, but they individually spend less time doing it?
In that age range we grew up with classic video games and the first personal computers.
Space Invaders and the Atari 2600 came out in 1977. A 50 year old would have 10 years old then.
I'm a bit younger than that and grew up with Apple II, Commodore 64, Amiga, Mac Plus, and so on. Many of the nostalgic references in Ready Player One were from around then.
Aren't women-focused games generally less long-term engaging than male-focused games?
At least in my experience, the games that I perceive women generally want to play are more "5 minutes here and there" type games vs "3 hours straight" type games. So perhaps there are more women playing games, but they individually spend less time doing it?
Does anyone have stats on this either way?