79% Of Gamers Say They Won't Buy Cheaper $399 Xbox One

[BMaker11]

LudicrousSpeed said:

BMaker11 said:

Just because I was a step ahead of you doesn't mean that you can double back and say "oh, that's not what I was talking about", because it was clear. It wasn't a tangent, it was a direct reply to sarcasm. Deal with it. I mean, how is "oh, they better pack it up since they missed out on those 732 sales" not sarcasm because that "amount is small"? If someone else hadn't thought it was sarcasm, you probably would have posted a "whoosh" pic or "your sarcasm meter is broken" reply.

And funny you should mention "going to a gun convention" as your comparison, because the poll even said "59% of 360 owners aren't interested". What kind of sample pool do you want to find out what 360 owners opinions are? Soccer moms?! This was a poll about gamers' opinions. So the poll should be by gamer survey (see title: 79% of gamers say they won't buy an Xbox One at $399, not 79% of Americans). "Going to a gun convention" and polling to see what gun owners feel about a new silencer should yield an accurate statistic about what gun owners feel about silencers. Just like TheSting said "ppl arent reading or fully understanding this survey"

Yikes. Of course it was sarcasm that the amount was small. That number was small. Not the sample size. If I were mocking the sample size, I'd have referenced it in my post. Instead of mocking the pool of people themselves, and the coupon website conducting it. I really don't know how much simpler I can make it for you.

The bolded part is the most adorable part of your reply, you're actually agreeing with what I said and my issue with this poll/article title but you are too caught up in your silly tangent to even notice.Not going to bother responding again. Go ahead and have the last word and give yourself a well deserved pat on the back for slaying yourself in this debate I guess ;)

Jesus Christ, you're dense. Your analogy was about going to the gun show, taking a survey, and then extrapolating that number to the general American population. Your beef with it being that it was an audience of gun-lovers, so the results are skewed if you extrapolated it to the American populace. However, you missed the point that this survey was about gamers' opinions, not American (as a whole) opinions. It even uses language like "video game playing readers", "current generation console owners", "Xbox 360 owners", "PS3 users" etc. If the survey took its numbers then said "only 21% of Americans care about the price cut", that would be me agreeing with you about your issue with it. But it doesn't say that and that's not what I agreed with. It says only 21% of gamers care, in a poll surveyed of a pool of gamers. What's so hard to understand about that? You're completely fabricating at worst and misreading at best what the poll is saying. It isn't asking a pool of gamers and taking that result to say "everybody says this", it's taking a pool of gamers and saying "gamers say this". If you don't get that, then there's nothing more that can be done to help you.

And there was no need to be sarcastic about the size being "small". Otherwise, no statistics ever matter because only a "small" amount gets surveyed most of the time, so you could always say "hurr durr, Company X better pack it up. They're missing out on a whole 1000 sales". Looking at it that way completely ignores the purpose of  what a survey is in the first place.

edit: wait, you're J_Allard? No wonder you completely miss points and use words like "adorable" as a means of condescension, while being completely incorrect, yourself (irony). In that case, yes, I will pat myself on the back, while you keep looking silly amongst the rest of the people viewing this thread.