55% Of 360 Users Download Games, PlayStation 3 And Wii Users Lag Behind

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BMaker11 on 23 March 2011

Fanboy response: "THEY DON"T HAVE ANY EXCLUSIVE (retail) GAMES SO THAT'S ALL THEY CAN PLAY!"

Rational response: XBLA has a lot of awesome games

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jarrod on 23 March 2011

jarrod said:

So... what are the raw number conversions?

No one answered, so I decided to stop being lazy. Using VGC numbers;

Xbox 360: 28.9m
PlayStation 3: 24.3m
Wii: 36.9m

I'm kinda surprised how big that Wii figure is honestly (8m lead in addressable userbase over 360 blows my mind), considering how Nintendo's been phoning it in on WiiWare and let Virtual Console basically die on the vine. You'd think their numbers at least would be going down, not up?

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Conegamer on 23 March 2011

Already said really, but 'lagging behind' when the Wii has a far higher raw number of people who actually download games. Using percentages can easily be skewed.

Isn't a jab at you but at the name of the article. The issue with statistics is that they can be skewed to portray success or failure, depending on your stance...

Raw numbers would be better IMO, but I'm more interested that each console's number has increased, and that nearly half of people with a home console download games

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

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ImJustBayuum on 23 March 2011

LivingMetal said:

ImJustBayuum said:

psrock said:

The report also says besides paying a subscription xbox live fans pay the most for their games online.

or perhaps they download more expensive games-on-demand / DLCs / 1200 points xblas and thus could skew that average figure in the data.

or perhaps Wii and PS3 owners have more original exclusive content they can purchase that's on physical media.

My sarcasm meter is broken..sigh..My post offered a valid reason to psrocks assumptions.

Unlike your fanboy response: "THEY DON"T HAVE ANY EXCLUSIVE (retail) GAMES SO THAT'S ALL THEY CAN PLAY!"

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LivingMetal on 23 March 2011

ImJustBayuum said:

LivingMetal said:

ImJustBayuum said:

psrock said:

The report also says besides paying a subscription xbox live fans pay the most for their games online.

or perhaps they download more expensive games-on-demand / DLCs / 1200 points xblas and thus could skew that average figure in the data.

or perhaps Wii and PS3 owners have more original exclusive content they can purchase that's on physical media.

My sarcasm meter is broken..sigh..My post offered a valid reason to psrocks assumptions.

Unlike your fanboy response: "THEY DON"T HAVE ANY EXCLUSIVE (retail) GAMES SO THAT'S ALL THEY CAN PLAY!"

Last time I checked, the PS3 has a potentially awesome exclusive line up while what's most anticipated on the Xbox 360 are multi-platform games that are also on the PS3. Conclusion: In general, PS3 exclusives are more anticipated than PS3 multiplatform titles that are also on the Xbox 360. Reasonable.

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ImJustBayuum on 23 March 2011

LivingMetal said:

ImJustBayuum said:

LivingMetal said:

ImJustBayuum said:

psrock said:

The report also says besides paying a subscription xbox live fans pay the most for their games online.

or perhaps they download more expensive games-on-demand / DLCs / 1200 points xblas and thus could skew that average figure in the data.

or perhaps Wii and PS3 owners have more original exclusive content they can purchase that's on physical media.

My sarcasm meter is broken..sigh..My post offered a valid reason to psrocks assumptions.

Unlike your fanboy response: "THEY DON"T HAVE ANY EXCLUSIVE (retail) GAMES SO THAT'S ALL THEY CAN PLAY!"

Last time I checked, the PS3 has a potentially awesome exclusive line up while what's most anticipated on the Xbox 360 are multi-platform games that are also on the PS3. Conclusion: In general, PS3 exclusives are more anticipated than PS3 multiplatform titles that are also on the Xbox 360. Reasonable.

omg...the survey is a reflection of 2010 digital consumer purchases across 3 platforms..your argument is invalid

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bobbert on 23 March 2011

This is a survey of 1000 console owners in NA. The actual results are here:

http://www.eedar.com/uploads/EEDAR-GDC201-PR.pdf

I think it would be silly to extrapolate these numbers beyond NA for the 'total number of users buying DLC', but at least in NA twice as many 360 users buy DLC/DLG than PS3 users. The 360/Wii actual number of purchasers are about the same considering they use a small sample size.