its biological. sorta how shopping appeals more to women. i am a girl and you could not PAY me to sit there and play video games. and i have played them. i just dont see the point.
Stanford University researchers recorded male and female gamers’ brain images as they played a video game in which the goal was to gain territory. The brain area associated with reward and addiction was activated in all the players.
But the male brains showed a much higher level of activation than the females when they gained more territory.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/health&id=5939972
Writing in a recent Journal of Psychiatric Research, Allan Reiss at Stanford University’s School For Medicine said: “These gender differences may help explain why males are more attracted to, and more likely to become ‘hooked’ on video games than females.” Reiss was not all that surprised either: “I think it’s fair to say that males tend to be more intrinsically territorial. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out who historically are the conquerors and tyrants of our species—they’re the males.” It’s also no surprise then that most of the games played by men include territory control and aggression.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/07/men-love-games-help
The study finds that when men play the games, a part of the brain involved in feelings of reward and addiction becomes much more activated than it does in women.
This may explain why men are more likely to report feeling addicted to video games than women are, the researchers say in in The Journal of Psychiatric Research. The lead author is Fumiko Hoeft of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=24215
Did you ever wonder why there aren’t that many games out there catering to the female demographic? Perhaps it’s because game developers know that inside the brain, video games are more exciting and worthwhile for men than they are for women.
http://www.gamernode.com/news/6009-men-love-games-more-than-women-interesting-facts/index.html