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Kasz216 on 10 June 2008
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Mifely said:
Kasz216 said:
Mifely said:
Kasz216 said:
100% of those respondents owned at least one console. It's an easy thing to realize when you notice this statistic.


As for online console players, 50 percent were Xbox 360 gamers, who spent the most time per week playing online compared to PC and PS3 owners.

If anything the number is higher since they are only talking about those console users who use their consoles online.

I don't actually see that in the article. Are you certain? Do you have access to the study? If you do, please please post the requested data, so us math nuts can go to town with it. =)


1) It's not in the article but it is in the second paragraph with the other parsed data. (Of online console players.)

If it wasn't part of that it would be in a paragraph up top. It is out of place in that pargraph otherwise.

2) If I had access to that study I would be bound by the terms of access to the study to not publically disseminate the results of it.

For what it's worth most sites have infact reported the % as inclusive.


Hmm. I have re-read the article several times now. I have to say that I believe you've misread it. Can you post some quotes (from the article) that clarify your position? Its an article with a lot of spin in it, so I can see how easily misinterpreted it can be (and has been).


Also you should note that the report in queston was done using NPD's research panel. Which to be a part of you need to own at least a PC.. which makes the 72% of households comment a bit misleading.

Really it's about 72% of housholds who play offline play online as well. I say about as NPD also occasionally brings in people who own older systems like the PS2 who plan to buy "next gen" systems but just haven't yet.

Note in the article you've read many times...

ales tracking group NPD has announced the results of a new gaming study, showing that 72 percent of the U.S. say they played games, online play still lagging behind offline, and an overwhelming minority owning more than one next-gen system.

NPD says the number of game-players has grown from its last study, up from 64 percent the year prior. More than half of that 72 percent, says NPD play games online, but relative to "total U.S. population," online gamers have only risen slightly from 40 percent in 2007 to 42 percent.

So in otherwords a vast number of gamers have started going online who didn't used to. So by trying to treat these as regular standard run of the mill households like you have is a step in the wrong direction in the first place.

Aside from that... Note how it goes from here... All people who qualify for the NPD panel. (People connected to the internet who own at least one console on which you could play games... and qualify as gamers.)

To in the third paragraph where it breaks down the demographics of each.

To the 4th paragraph where it talks about online console gamers.

To me, that second statement is infact talking about the above respondents. Those online console players.