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Kenology on 09 April 2009

Nielsen Drops the Ball on Console Usage Numbers

 

Remember that study of video gamer habits Nielsen released earlier this week showing the Wii in third place and the Playstation 3 in seventh, last even after the GameCube and original Xbox? It was wrong.

Fast Company reports that they've been told that the graph was mislabeled. The real graph, which now appears in the official report and in the image above, shows that the Wii is in second place, after the PS2, for console usage and the PS3 is in fifth place, beating out the GameCube and original Xbox.

Whoops. I hope there aren't any other mistakes in the oft-cited, typically trusted data. Reached for comment this morning, a Nielsen representative said the report does not contain any other errors.

Source

Link to graph (since it won't fit in the post)



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SmokedHostage on 09 April 2009

Cool beans. I probably contribute about .0001% of that. :P



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Arius Dion on 09 April 2009

I wonder if this thread will get as much attention.



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Demotruk on 09 April 2009

Awesome. Unfortunately falsehoods often travel faster than their corrections.



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Blacksaber on 09 April 2009
Kenology said:

Nielsen Drops the Ball on Console Usage Numbers

 

Remember that study of video gamer habits Nielsen released earlier this week showing the Wii in third place and the Playstation 3 in seventh, last even after the GameCube and original Xbox? It was wrong.

Fast Company reports that they've been told that the graph was mislabeled. The real graph, which now appears in the official report and in the image above, shows that the Wii is in second place, after the PS2, for console usage and the PS3 is in fifth place, beating out the GameCube and original Xbox.

Whoops. I hope there aren't any other mistakes in the oft-cited, typically trusted data. Reached for comment this morning, a Nielsen representative said the report does not contain any other errors.

Source

Link to graph (since it won't fit in the post)

There's a shrinked version....

 



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Exblackman on 09 April 2009

Wow that makes a big difference but seriously how can a profession such a big mistake.



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pakidan101 on 09 April 2009

LOL!

I guess these numbers make a lot more sense...

However, it is like what someone said above...the BS travels faster than the truth sometimes (mostly due to the LAWL factor...).



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theprof00 on 09 April 2009

all this shows is that out of the total minutes played between consoles, wii takes up the #2 position. That doesn't mean much because it has ~50 million consoles.

Just to break it down for you, if wii and 360 were almost tied in that graph it would mean that 360 gamers game twice as much. LOLz nice try



Naum on 09 April 2009
Arius Dion said:
I wonder if this thread will get as much attention.

 

Naa this doesn't have the information that some of the most vocal posters here can use for their belief.



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Inigo13 on 09 April 2009
theprof00 said:
all this shows is that out of the total minutes played between consoles, wii takes up the #2 position. That doesn't mean much because it has ~50 million consoles.

Just to break it down for you, if wii and 360 were almost tied in that graph it would mean that 360 gamers game twice as much. LOLz nice try

 

 Nielsen is American data, so your numbers above are way off.  Or in your language: LOLz nice try.