Are games still market-heavy toward males?

The games industry used to be extremely 'biased' (not meant in bad way) toward male consumers. At one point the only real Female lead you had was Lara Croft. Has this changed much? If not, do male gamers actually like the added female choices in games with gender selection?

It is changing as are social stereotpes of gamers as a whole. Although it would be foolish to say it's equal as of yet.

I think they're coming up with more games targetted at a female audience. Harvest Moon has both a girl and boy version which has the same playability and the same story. Sadly, most of the other games geared towards girls have to do with fashion designing, make-up, modelling, cooking etc...which of course I have no objection to since I actually like those sorts of games. The one I didn't like was about raising babies. :? Overall, a part of me is kind of disgusted with how female gamers are being stereotyped, but well, like I said I honestly do like those games.

DS and Wii are targeting women and children. They sell the most. So I would say the market is balanced.Naruto

I belive it is changing, but slowly.... Me personally have got no problem with a female lead or a male lead for a game. Good games normaly tell a story so well that you grow attached to the character no matter what gender the lead role is. king-kj

It is still male oriented. It is kinda getting better for females, yet also worse. Like some one else mentioned already, "women parts" have been getting exagerrated as of lately, but also, more games are having female leads, or giving the player the option of a female lead, and not all of these female leads have big boobs or whatever, either. :P

Lara Croft wasn't the only female lead. Even before she came around, Samus Aran was already out, strutting around in her bikini.BladesOfAthena

Lol, yeh Samus is one of the oldest female leads...funny thing is half the fans didn't know it.

Actually after thinking about it reallymost Wii and DS games that are for girls really can't be considered actual games more like gimmicks for children...imagine games for example...Castlevania OoEis about the only serious game on DSI can think of at the moment.

If your talking about boobs do yourself a favour and get Soul Calibur 4...check Ivy, they must have spent like two weeks just refining the physics of her chest alone. :P

I don't think the market is really changing but I think every now and then some dev decides to make a game with a female lead. Heavenly sword on PS3 was one of them, haven't got a clue what it was like though.