| c0rd said: Yeah, this is a biased sample. Two main things: This site is focused on videogame sales. It seems like, since the Wii is dominating, more Nintendo fans gather here. When your console is winning, I suppose it's easier to look at the numbers... This is a videogame website. The type of people that frequent gaming forums, are also the type that buy the niche games like JRPG's, critically acclaimed flops/unpopular games (Okami, NMH, Zack & Wiki). Look at the game collections, for example - 500 users claim to own NMH, a game that sold 390k. Mario Kart Wii is owned by 807 users here, when there are 14.5m copies sold. In short, we don't represent the average core gamer. So, I'd say you can't really draw those kinds of conclusions from such a poll. Not that it was useless, it is interesting... |
I think you misunderstand the difference between a scientific study and an informal poll.
