schadenfreude wrote:I think an apt analogy for the kinds of games men are playing versus the ones women play would be like if, in film, men preferred watching all the big budget releases plus the brainier stuff, whereas women exclusively watched pedantic chick-flicks and straight-to-Blu-ray low-budget trash releases and children's movies — or isn't that kind of how it pans out in reality?

I think you might be onto something.
Big budget Triple-A "Transformers" Movies = obviously Call of Duty.
"Brainier" stuff = maybe Team ICO games, or the arty-farty Indie games.
"Straight-to-Blu-ray low-budget trash releases" = obviously the Nintendo Wii bargain bin 3rd party crap.
Children's movies = see above.
The important question: what's the movie analogy of shmups or versus fighting games?
schadenfreude wrote:layzee wrote:Okay, I just did 10 seconds research, and it appears the Tales of... gamer demographics is 70% male and 30% female while interestingly, the Tales of Festivals have up to 90% female attendees.
It sounds like they're more into the characters and art and atmosphere more than actually playing the games, which I'm sure is the main reason why many girls play JRPGs. It helps that grinding puts the games on auto-pilot too. I still enjoy playing a JRPG every now and then, and what helps is avoiding grinding — unless it's completely necessary like in those 80s classics, but then I'd probably sooner give up on the game rather than submit myself to that.

Well it seems JRPGs have something to offer both genders so that's a plus I guess. Also, JRPGs and JRPG characters are a good excuse for fashionable clothing, and that's one big reason (cosplay) a girl might have to go to an event like a Tales of Festival.
Iwazaru wrote:Ain't that ironic how match-3 is the king
Also ironic (and fitting) how the king of Match-3 games, Candy Crush Saga (and its reskinned ilk), are developed by a company called "King". Whenever I browse the games section of Google Play Store (which is basically never), it's literally 99% shit. Say what you will about modern console games but at least they have some semblance of quality control. Now if only we can convince females to stop paying money for shit games.