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Burek said:
mysteryman said:
Burek said:
mysteryman said

There's honestly not much of a difference.

Take market "research" with grain of salt. Especially when not performed by an objective third party.

But it was performed by an objective third party - Nielsen's. I believe they are also the most respected market research company in the US.

Was it? I was unable to find the source of the investigation, or any details on what analysis was actually performed.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-07-09-how-strong-exactly-is-playstations-2014-line-up

One amazing statistic, to me at least, was published by Nielsen a couple of months ago. They researched the PS4, and reported that 17 per cent of PS4 owners had never owned the last gen. A completely new consumer who skipped a generation. 32 per cent additionally didn't own a PS3, but owned a 360 or Wii.

Well PS2 was pretty strong, and released games deep into the 7th gen. Some people also drift in and out of gaming. By the end of one generation they feel a bit gamed out and take a break, before they know it they have skipped a generation and the next next gen is here. I for one stopped video gaming for over 10 years I had a Commodore 64 in the 1980s, then in the late 90's I ransomed my brothers PS1 as collateral for money I loaned him and got hooked back into gaming. I pretty much missed the whole of Nintendo's prime gaming years. If I'd got back into video gaming before PS1 came out I might be a Nintendo fan rather than a PS fan and I might be one of the few who owns a Wii U. Or I might be a bitter Sega fan who converted to Xbox because at least Xbox didn't help to kill off Sega as a hardware maker.



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