Akvod said:
"Misuse statistic"? I'm not even using statistics. There's no actual dollar amounts, the variables are just randomly thrown in there. Again, it'll be pretty sad if you couldn't see that I'm just illustrating the concept that Microsoft is straddling two different consumers with the gaming and non-gaming features not really overlapping with those two segments. You could disagree with that conceptual point, but again: 1) You and other people were easily able to tell that it's not a real research 2) I never claimed it was, and didn't emphasize the numbers to support my arguments
Again, you're just creating a false issue. Nobody in this thread has believed that I somehow managed to pull off research that would cost thousands of dollar in such a short amount of time. Rather than maybe address the main meat of my post. |
and that's the problem. I understood what your doing. It's just that it's about the first thing most statistics and research proffesors will tell you NOT to do, and will immediatly smack you on the nose with a newspaper for doing. It's inherently deceptive. (And dangerous in a world where a lot of people search via images for graphs. At the very least the image of the graph should have fake data listed somewhere.)
Also, you never claimed it wasn't real research. Simply just assumed people knew it wasn't. All in all, it's something you should never do.
I'm sensitive about these things as i must of had nearly a dozen statistics classes and programs and have done actual real world consumer marketing research.
(It can cost much less then you think.)
As for the meat of your post? I don't actually disagree. The only caveat I'd mention your made up numbers could be way off. Espiecally if the Xbox One isn't seen primarily as a Games console. Which, I wouldn't be shocked if Microsoft marketed it as something else completely.
The Xbox One could very well be seen the same way as a Smartphone. Where games are the minority value to the average user. Sure if you only want a smartphone for the games. The smartphone is a shitty gaming device.
As a device that plays games though?
Perception of what your product is GREATLY affects what you will pay for features.