Hmm, I bet those hundreds, if not thousands, of people who waited in line for hours just to pre-order the Vita would disagree. Also, I believe I saw an article where the a lot of sites online pre-orders were sold out. Not sure how the Wii U is going to do, but it's pretty save to say the Vita will be just fine.
| RolStoppable said: The survey was conducted between October 17th and 19th of this year, and the audience surveyed was about 53% male. 16.3% were in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.9% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, and 27.3% were fifty or older. While this audience covers a wide range of ages, 64% of them owned a games machine. The most popular ones were the Nintendo DS family, with 62% of the 694 game owners owning one, while 53% had a PlayStation 2, 5.7% had Nintendo Wii, 34.3% had a PSP, and 27.8% had a PS3. Taking into consideration that hardly anyone of the people surveyed own a Wii, but a good portion own a PSP, the results are much worse for the Vita than the Wii U. EDIT: Also, what Mr Khan said. |
Add to it that Japan is the big region for handhelds, and it makes the results look even worse....
There's equal disinterest with both the Vita and the WiiU? (ie. Ones who voted that they do not wish to purchase).
For the Vita, that's a bit worrying, considering it's not far off from it's release date.
| RolStoppable said: The survey was conducted between October 17th and 19th of this year, and the audience surveyed was about 53% male. 16.3% were in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.9% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, and 27.3% were fifty or older. While this audience covers a wide range of ages, 64% of them owned a games machine. The most popular ones were the Nintendo DS family, with 62% of the 694 game owners owning one, while 53% had a PlayStation 2, 5.7% had Nintendo Wii, 34.3% had a PSP, and 27.8% had a PS3. Taking into consideration that hardly anyone of the people surveyed own a Wii, but a good portion own a PSP, the results are much worse for the Vita than the Wii U. EDIT: Also, what Mr Khan said. |
I was just going to point that out. This poll is remarkable considering only 5.7% owned a Nintendo Wii over 9% wanting to purchase WiiU shows an increase in demand rather then a decrease. This poll is misleading it claims these consumers are gamers but they obviously are not all what we would classify as gamers.
Owning a single game machine does not make you a gamer. Especially if that game machine was a PS2, that shows they haven't invested in new consoles or hardware in around a generation. This proves they are not the kind of consumer Nintendo or Sony is trying to attract nor would they be interested in next generation hardware.
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RolStoppable said:
Well, this thread is about gamers. Preorder numbers for the Vita put the attach ratio below 0.6, so the survey isn't as far off as you think. |
Well, considering there are probably WAY more than 1,083 that pre-ordered the Vita, I could ask those same people if they would buy the Vita and I would get a result of 100% yes. Kinda negates this study, doesn't it?
''A survey conducted between October 17th and 19th asked 1,083 people about their interest in upcoming consoles. ''
COME ON PEOPLE.
Small sample space => USELESS statistics
This is worth NOTHING.
Some people really need to hone their statistics..
Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet a time.
RolStoppable said:
1,000 people is usually a big enough sample to arrive close enough to the actual numbers. Increasing the number to 10,000 people wouldn't lead to notably better results. The bigger problem is to get a sample that is representative of the entire population. If you use the results of this survey (Japan has a population of about 120m people if memory serves me right), you have 12m buying either system for sure, about 42m being on the fence about either system and the rest being not interested at all. The sample is biased towards gamers though, because 64 % of the people surveyed own at least one of the following systems: PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, DS. It wasn't a survey solely among gamers as the thread title suggests. I doubt that 64 % of Japanese people own a gaming system, so you are better off by splitting the results at least in half. 6m will buy for sure, 21m on the fence; just sounds more believable. Of course a lot of people who answer "will buy for sure" end up not buying it. The bottom line is that while this survey is by no means perfect, it's not all bad either. Certainly not as flawed as you suggested. |
You just like what you're hearing.
How can our dispute be put to the test? Vita sales numbers?
| thismeintiel said: Hmm, I bet those hundreds, if not thousands, of people who waited in line for hours just to pre-order the Vita would disagree. Also, I believe I saw an article where the a lot of sites online pre-orders were sold out. Not sure how the Wii U is going to do, but it's pretty save to say the Vita will be just fine. |
Well that was what I was thinking, and I really do hope that Vita does well, because personally I am very excited about it, but it will need publishers support to succeed properly, and beyond the first wave of games, that will rely on a decent start for the system
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