No female playable character in Zelda because Aunuma is sexist

[A Black Falcon]

I meant different expectations of the audience there, mostly. I mean, shooter fans are mostly males, younger (teens to 30s) men, while RPG fans have a wider age and gender ratio. That alone is going to lead to companies making games differently to hit those different audiences, character gender included. However, you're right that there have been people questioning how few shooters have female characters in them, yes. The shooter audience mostly probably doesn't care that a lot of shooters are males-only, but some people do. I know some modern FPSes have a gender-selection option in multiplayer, which is a good step forwards. Battlefield 1 won't have that, but that is being accurate to the war it's depicting, though that game's hardly some war sim, so if they had included it it'd be defensible. So yeah, I probably was a bit off there, gender does matter in FPSes too... but historically you've seen gender choice a LOT more in RPGs than other genres, surely partially because I've always heard that female gamers often like RPGs.

Beyond that though, Zelda has always been a series I love, while Doom is just a really good game but not something I have some particular attachment to, so personally I can't compare those two -- of course I care far more about wanting a female character in Zelda, and not too much about Doom, that just reflects how much I care about those two franchises in general. Like, yes, it's fun and quite good, but the only version of Doom I've actually beaten is the SNES one... (and I like SNES Doom, really! It's just obviously a big downgrade from the PC.) I was probably putting that bias in my post there.