NPD: 29% of Wii gamers play online. Higher percentage than the PS3.

[Kasz216]

Yakuzaice said:

Kasz216 said:

Max King of the Wild said:

point x said:
WTF,.?

360: 50% (about 2,500 of the 5,000) with an pay service?

PS3: 20% (about 1,000 of the 5,000) with an free service?

maybe only 1000 ps3 owners were pulled and 17550 360 owners. that would mean 100% of ps3 owners play online and only 14% of 360 owners

They mean 20% of the 100% of PS3 owners polled play online.

In otherwords if they pulled 1000 PS3 owners... only 200 played online.

They pulled 5,000 console owners from each group.

Not 5,000 total.

That isn't what the article says. 

"as last year 90 percent of online gamers were playing on the PC"

"last year 18 percent of online gamers played on the Wii"

etc.

It doesn't say 90% of PC owners gamed online last year, or that 18% of Wii owners did.  It says that out of the people who play online, that percentge was using that platform.

 

Yeah noticed that.  The % in the OP messed me up when I was reading the article.  Still sample bias is unlikely in a group of 5,000.

The percentages should be fairly telling... and generally what matters... the "attach ratio" of online % would just mean something the other way as it would make things even worse then they look for the PS3 in this regard.  Rather then just being bad the numbers would disasterous.