Shadow1980 said:
It was a year or two ago. Surveys had suggested that in 2012 broadband penetration in the U.S. was at about two-thirds of all households, and it had remained at that level since 2010. According to more recent data, the percentage had increased a bit in 2013, but 30% of households (over 36.7 million homes) still don't have access. It's also worth pointing out that the threshold of what constitutes "broadband" in America is something like 4 mbps DL speed. According to this, only 24% of U.S. households have internet speeds of 10 mbps or above. Arbitrarily low bandwidth caps are still a thing as well. While some countries do typically have better internet access than the U.S., others have it even worse. |
Thank you for the data.
As I live in a Tier 2 country (Sweden), outside any major city, I am full aware that I am not in the target audience for MS, Sony or Nintendo when it comes to selling game consoles. For the 3DS I have no use of Street Pass or 3DS hotspots. I have a 10Mbps internet that when transferred trough my wifi-network in reality is around 1 - 2 Mbps. Altough Netflix trough Wii U and Chromecast works without hiccups.
I always made the assumption that most console gamers lived in cities as small consoles are easier to fit into a small city appartment. PC are for Suburbia.
Wikipedia has altogheter different numbers (who can you belive):
According to wikipedia http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_States
Internet users 81.0%
Fixed broadband 28.0%
Wireless broadband 89.8%
