Data indicating that the proportion of "women" in the main characters of the game is still small

For women's treatment in the world of gamesCast a doubt, A person who got the opportunity to reconsider the women's minority? In the work in the game industryAnita · CircuitianMr. is. Media that publishes movies etc. for improving the status of women managed by Mr. Circuitian "Feminist Frequency"Data analyzing the roles of men and women in the game released at E3 2018 has been released and it is clear that there are still few works whose main characters are female characters in the game.

Gender Breakdown of Games Featured at E3 2018 - Feminist Frequency
https://feministfrequency.com/2018/06/14/gender-breakdown-of-games-featured-at-e3-2018/

The number of women protagonists in E3 games still in single digits - Polygon
https://www.polygon.com/e3/2018/6/14/17465102/women-protagonists-video-games-e3

NintendoYaPlayStationHas held a recital at the world's largest game conference E3 2018, various game makers around the world have announced new works. Feminist Frequency has released data analyzing how many games announced at E3 2018 are, and what kind of deviation the main character's gender has.

A graph showing the result of analyzing the gender of the leading character by the graph below. Of the 118 games that were analyzed, 50% of half of them made it possible to select the gender of the main character, and 24% of the games were able to select only male characters. On the other hand, there is only 8% (9 pieces) of the game of the main character clearly for the main character, and about one third of the game which can select only the male character. Others, 13% of games that do not apply to gender, 5% of works with gentle sex existed.


Feminist Frequency has analyzed the "gender of the main character of the new game released at E3" in the same way for the past several years, so it seems that only the case where the main character of the game is 7 to 9%. However,2016There are few female hero games, it seems that only 3% of the total was absent.

As the game of the main character of the female character, "Last of Us Part 2", "Wolfenstein Youngblood", "Battlefield 5", "Gears 5" etc. are mentioned. Among the works released at E3 2018, the one with a high degree of attention adopts a female protagonist, but the proportion in the whole is only 8%.

The Last of Us Part II - E3 2018 Gameplay Reveal Trailer | PS4 - YouTube


Wolfenstein: Youngblood - Official E3 Teaser - YouTube


"Battlefield V" Official Announcement Trailer - YouTube


Gears 5 - E3 2018 - Announce Trailer - YouTube


In addition, Feminist Frequency points out that there are few cases where women appear in the E3 live event, and still points out that men are in major positions in the game industry.

Also, Feminist Frequency has classified it as "Battle game published at E3 2018 is a battle game or another genre" separately from sex, and it is clear that it is a whole 78% fighting game.