| koffieboon said: "The results cited are based on a survey of 1,200 online Americans aged 18 and older in September 2007 using a professionally-managed panel representative of the US online population." A: No children were taken into account, although I am quite certain they have a major impact on the actual holiday sales on the console market. B: Online Americans taking part in such surveys may differentiate greatly from the actual total American population C: As someone else already mentioned, there is still a big difference between wanting something and actually buying it. The survey can give some idea about the amount of interest certain products are generating, but in the end I don't think they are a good indication of the amount of sales the different consoles will see this holiday. |
Well there you go, Nintendos recent conference proved (admitedly in Japan but it will apply somewhat in US too) that the 18-25 demographic is their worst (ignoring people over 50)
So as the survey was online with only over 18s (more of the online community will be 18-25 than 25+) the Wii did really well to get above the PS3/360 in All, and similarly well to be only 2 % behind PS3 for males.
