| Zkuq said: They just dropped the overall brand category where Playstation (not PS4) would've been higher. At least I can't find any general category or brand category or anything like that. Why is that, I wonder... Just saying they were pretty picky with the categories they chose to show off. |
Yeah, that's my impression as well.
After wondering why the top 10 list of "professional sports teams" seems to exclusively contain US baseball and american football teams (that nobody except US-americans would even care about), I just finally realized that the rankings mentioned there are for the US only. As it seems, BING is not even having "worldwide" lists!
They only compiled lists for a few chosen countries, and for some reason, the list for categories for which they compiled rankings differs from country to country.
For example, for Germany, they only have rankings for "VIPs", "professional sports teams", "Music (national)", "Music (international)", "Sportsmen" and "Movies". There are no lists for "devices" or video games - probably because the results simply wouldn't be favourable for Microsoft.
I just checked all the different country that they were posting rankings for, and I found a consistent recurring pattern:
In all countries that they published a "top electronics" ranking for (US, UK, Australia, Canada, Spain), Xbox One has a very high ranking - usually the #2 spot, while "Playstation" is either not in the top 10 at all or at the bottom.
This pattern is so consistent that it even applies to the UK "top electronics device" ranking, which, for some bizarre reason and unlike all other published rankings, only contains six entries - thereby once again turning "Playstation" (#6) into the bottom entry...
These rankings appear to be a great example of "The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself".
