| MikeB said: @ Kasz216 Others may think what they wish to believe, but I stick with my opinion the PS3 receives relatively far more playtime amongst its userbase by adults than the Wii does and less playtime by young kids. Something just doesn't compute with me if I would assume adult men are playing Wii Sports or Mario Galaxy en masse and are dying to get their hands on Super Smash Bros Brawl. And preteen boys and girls are playing Oblivion, Resistance, Uncharted, Call of Duty 4, etc en masse locked up in their bedrooms playing on the HDTVs and 7.1 surround sound audio setups coming home from school... I refuse the idea of having my ass handed to me by preteens when playing Motorstorm, Resistance or Warhawk online. Come on, I helped my kid sister play through Tomb Raider and even a not so hard games like Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. I completed Motorstorm while I read about many people whining about how impossible this game gets and I am amongst the top 0.1% Super Stardust HD players (So I like to believe I don't suck at games), I refuse to believe well over 100k preteens are using their credit cards en masse to play this game or even know about its existance... |
Relativly is an interesting word. I would agree that a higher percentage of males in the "prime demographic" play PS3.
However i would disagree that the PS3 gets more hours of playtime by adult's in said "prime demographic".
Kids may get the Wii more to play, however that doesn't mean that more Men of the "prime demographic" have the PS3. That's a logical fallacy.
I also disagree that many children around 10-16 wouldn't want a PS3, they just don't expect to get one because of it's price or some other reason. I know my cousin would like a PS3 (like 15-20 year difference between my father and his believe it or not) but his mom refuses to buy it. She doesn't even care how cheap it gets... she really hates it for some reason. (kid has a PSP though)
She won't even let him play the 360 either.
You also haven't found anyway to discount the fact that many of the people surveyed already likely had a Wii or 360. Or that if someone would be interested in two consoles yet it wasn't economically viable for them to buy both they would go with the more expensive one if they could get a gift.
I think what you fail to understand is that adult men in that core group are playing Wii Sports and Mario Glaxay en masse and dying to get their hands on Brawl just the same as with the PS3. That and you should consider fact that one console can actually be played by more then one member or person in a family or living place.
I mean even if half the Wii's in the world were bought for kids it wouldn't gurantee that it wasn't being used by more adults in the core demographic then the PS3. In fact it would seem likely to be the opposite.
In otherwords, none of the points you try to make from the survey don't hold up.
