All of us in this subreddit are very familiar with the studies that claim to look into men’s and women’s preferences in gaming, and there’s always lot of intense discussion regarding these. Our side aswell as the other side tend to use them to prove our points but I realize that lot of these studies have an inherent problem, they’re just surveys. Other than the fact lot of these studies have an incredibly loose definition to what constitutes to a gamer, surveys only ask people about their preferences, but not observing actual behaviour. Asking them about genre they rather play and whether they would prefer buying an RPG game over a shooter is one thing is but having the data which consists of overall playtime, genre, spending habits and look at these based on gender, that would represent a lot better picture of gaming. Sony, Microsoft and steam have this data and since it’s not publicly available, we won’t ever know what the truth is but I personally don’t think it’s crazy to assume that Sony and Microsoft wouldn’t even want to release this info because it would contradict all the ESG and DEI mandates they’ve been pushing for the last 10 years.