| mesoteto said: ^peter--thats true, but more then likely you buy a game and play it |
Unless you buy it to look at boxart. (No one does that....I hope)
Didja get that thing I sentcha?
who cares about poor, unconfirmed based data....like this??
| Leni said: who cares about poor, unconfirmed based data....like this?? |
Did you read the article?
Also, Nielsen revealed that Fresh Bread was the most popular consumer packaged good in 2007. Also not a surprise.
Didja get that thing I sentcha?
For the past 20 years, I've always spent more time playing games for my old systems than the brand new ones for pretty much the first year after they're out. It's usually about a year, sometimes a year and a half before there are enough quality games out for a new system to draw me completely away from the old. The only exception I can think of is when my roommate at the time got his PS2 at launch. We spent more time playing Tekken Tag Tournament than anything else for about six months.
I know you believe you understand what you think I said but I don't think you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Peter Potamus said:
Unless you buy it to look at boxart. (No one does that....I hope) |
Of course, the games that are likely to be bought, yet not played are casual games. Or one would think anyway.
| Nighteyes_1981 said: For the past 20 years, I've always spent more time playing games for my old systems than the brand new ones for pretty much the first year after they're out. It's usually about a year, sometimes a year and a half before there are enough quality games out for a new system to draw me completely away from the old. The only exception I can think of is when my roommate at the time got his PS2 at launch. We spent more time playing Tekken Tag Tournament than anything else for about six months. |
Same with me. The PS2, even at launch, had the games that could keep you from playing anything else. Tekken Tag is still one of the best fighters around. One of the few PS2 games I still play.
Didja get that thing I sentcha?
Do people actually notice the period this survey covers? It's April-November, during that period the market share of the Wii compared to 360 and PS3 changed a lot. Conclusions like "The data suggests that while the Wii has seen brisk sales this year, many of its purchasers don't play the console as often as those who bought a 360." clearly don't take this into account.
No big surprise there, PS2 continues to hold the most value on the market today…I picked up MGS 2 the other day for 10 bucks. You can’t beat that.
| Peter Potamus said: "Nielsen measured the total amount of minutes its participants spent playing videogames, then divided those minutes between all current- and last-gen consoles. The PS2 obliterated the competition, claiming over 42 percent of all usage time. For each of the big three platforms, their last-gen predecessors saw more use than current systems." |
Systems "in the Wild" as of March 31st 2007:
XBox 360: 5,864,187
Wii: 2,323,137
PS3: 1,280,238
Systems "in the Wild" as of November 30th 2007:
XBox 360: 9,175,748
Wii: 7,031,085
PS3: 2,748,453
Now, if you average the number of units "in the Wild" in that time frame you get:
XBox 360: 7,519,968
Wii: 4,677,111
PS3: 2,014,345
So, you would expect the Wii to have 62% of the average play time of the XBox 360, and the PS3 to have 26% of the average play time of the XBox 360, based on the sizes of the userbases. What we really have is the Wii has 60% of the average playtime of the XBox 360, and the PS3 has 21% of the playtime of the XBox 360 which is fairly close to what you would expect ...
So basically, Nielsen highers people who don't have a clue what they're doing ...
well if you think about the window it was in...you got Halo out so i wonder what that did to the numbers?
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