I don't generally base a purchase based on a characters gender but if it just feels like pandering it makes me less likely to buy it, those characters in the FCNW trailer looked like they'd get old fast.
I loved the Tomb Raider reboot, Horizon ZD and I'm really looking forward to TLOU2 but that's because those are games that will let you get to know the character. FCNW isn't going to do that, so much of this stuff just seems like the pitch meeting started out with "We need the character to be female" before anything else.