Race and gaming

[iapologise]

I find that the gaming market in South Africa is predominately white male between the ages of 13-30

What are your observations and why is this so?

[Dan]

Do you find this from research or from your own experience as (I assume) a white male between the ages of 13-30?

[sycogrim]

I find that the gaming market in South Africa is predominately white male between the ages of 13-30

What are your observations and why is this so?

I find this to be a condescending sort of question. I find that the country as a whole, regardless of race is a majority of males between 13-30 years old, as gaming is less effective of those of the older class of adults in todays day and age.

[matt]

I don't fall in that category, sommer cause I'm over 30. There are actually more older gamers around than you'd think

[iapologise]

I am solely basing this of observation and not any formal empiricist research. From what I've seen at Expo, lans and gaming online. It is predominately white male and not much of any other race group even though white male forms the minority of this country.

It can be debated that the reason this is so, is because of poverty factors, or inequalities as the white population in South Africa still dominating economical while African Black dominate politically. Gaming is an expensive hobby and this is plausible, as lack of resources is a limiting factor.

But I find stereotypically race groups do tend to flock towards a certain genre of item. For example Rock/Metal music is not appreciated by Native African Black, while RnB and Rap is. However still, this is just an observed generalisation.

Sycogrim - Regardless of race? This point of this post is race. Regardless of age, and gender, would you agree that gaming is still predominately white?

[Xero]

I tend to disagree
From my experience in the gaming subculture locally I think it is a very open ended and constantly growing sector
Irrespective of Race/Sex/Age I think gaming has become a universally accessible past time and obsession for all groups of people from more varied walks of life than you might imagine.
I do think that certain genre's of games appear to be dominated by a certain group or sub section of gamer, but that does not reflect on gaming a a whole

[iapologise]

Including casual gamers, console(most specifically the wii) and social games, I would agree with that as well.

Can mygaming do a poll to verify this for me please?

Out of interest, is there anyone of colour on this thread?

[Xero]

The General Rule around most forums is that you don't put up polls for Race/Sex/Politics or Religion
It simply serves to fracture a community that thrives on anonymity

[Uberutang]

All of my friends are gamers.

Most of them is well over 30.

Not all of them are white.

[matt]

I actually made a pole a while ago about age, and it turned out that most of the people on this forum at least are in their 20's, which isn't really an indication of gamers in general, rather an indication of the people who post on this forum.

There are also quite a few ladies active as it turns out, but I think the taste in genre differs quite a lot to what the guys play, more MMO's I think, where the guys prefer FPS's, etc.

Race never came up in that discussion as far as I can recall

http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthre...ge+of+mygamers