Reasonable said:
Squilliam said:
You bastard! You said you were a programmer! How dare you lie to me like that! Now I find out you work in retail, how can any be reasonable working in retail?!
The quantity of analytics available this generation are quite staggering. Developers like Lionhead for instance know that people playing the game for the most part didn't use more than half of the features inside the game. Anyway there probably wouldn't be a significant difference between the offline and online population and they can adjust their figures because of already known data like the number of DS3 and Sixaxis controllers sold thus far against the total reported as being synced to the PS3.
Sure there would be a little bit of controller sharing but as a whole compared to the entire userbase this would be insignificant. With a know number of Move controllers and PsEyes and Nav controllers shipped and a known number of reorders as well as analytics from PS3s phoning home to say they have Move controllers attached they would have a very good picture of how many Move controllers the average person has, how common the navigation controllers are and how many non Move attached PsEyes out there.
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I am a programmer - or well I was. I tend to focus higher level now on what should be designed, deployed, etc. Retailers have programmers too you know!
I agree on the analytics from games. I'm just not sure what Sony do. I was thinking retail analytic data sharing, which actually isn't that great generally, but if they really can grab what controllers, etc. you hook up and play with then I guess they could work out who has exactly what.
I know Valve collect a ton of gameplay stuff, for example.
It would be interesting to know what Sony might actually be able to grab from your PS3 use. To be fair I'd be curious what MS and Nintendo grab too, if anything.
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To be honest, its probably anything and everything they think is relevant. In any case thats why they get you to agree to a 2nd EULA before you can go on PSN / Live.
Nintendo probably gathers a lot of gameplay statistics, I would assume things like what you play, how long you play for, how many people at once etc. Sony would be more than that and Microsoft would probably know whether or not your brushed your teeth during a gameplay session!
