HappySqurriel on 16 February 2012
| Conegamer said: "For comparison, last month's Trax Gamer Insights survey found that 13 percent of respondents planned to buy the Wii U, with 34 percent and 36 percent planning to buy the next-generation machines from Sony and Microsoft, respectively." Huh. I wonder if they'll still be saying that when we actually SEE what Sony and Microsoft are planning. I doubt it somehow ;) OT: If the 3DS is anything to go by; no. there's just some experiences that can't be replicated on phones or other, non-gaming dedicated devices. And so, at least for another few years, handheld gaming will be alive and well IMO. |
I think a lot of surveys of this kind don't control for the difference between very wishy-washy intentions ("Yeah, I think I will eventually buy a PS4 or 'XBox 720'") and much more solid intentions ("Yeah, I'm planning on buying a Wii U at or soon after launch"). With the Wii U those intentions will probably translate into sales at a very high rate, while with the other systems only a small portion of those buying intentions will translate into sales in the first year.
I
