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Will the Xbox community grow?

Yes over time it will get bigger 43 17.34%
 
No for some reason it won't 107 43.15%
 
The Xbox fanbase is already big enough 98 39.52%
 
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Euphoria14 on 02 January 2013
pezus said:
ethomaz said:
In 2007-2009 vgchartz have more 360 fans than PS3 or Wii fans... today I think there is more PS3 fans but the SDF lost the most valuable and fantastics members along the years.

Wat! I don't think that was the case (based on my lurking). There were a LOT of Nintendo fans, and also Sony fans defending against the herd.

Oh my, I remember the days of the Wii60 alliance.



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Euphoria14 on 02 January 2013
Kantor said:
runqvist said:
I guess biased moderators have something to do with that. A 360 fan gets banned for something which won't get nintendo/sony fans banned, because the fanbases of n/s are reporting everything which is even a bit negative towards their console of choice.

Then a moderator comes to rescue and bans. In some cases certain moderators look for excuses to ban users... not mentioning any names.

Oh, is this "the moderators are Microsoft haters" week again? I could have sworn it was still "the moderators are Sony haters" week.

The mod team has no preference of console overall and certainly does not moderate based on that preference. But one week, more fans of one group are banned and that is apparently indicative of bias.

It's always easier to play victim instead of blaming yourself.

No worries as I am sure that majority of the site believe the mod team is doing a fine job.



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Euphoria14 on 02 January 2013
pezus said:
Euphoria14 said:
pezus said:
ethomaz said:
In 2007-2009 vgchartz have more 360 fans than PS3 or Wii fans... today I think there is more PS3 fans but the SDF lost the most valuable and fantastics members along the years.

Wat! I don't think that was the case (based on my lurking). There were a LOT of Nintendo fans, and also Sony fans defending against the herd.

Oh my, I remember the days of the Wii60 alliance.

Yeah, I remember all the "you can buy a Wii AND a 360 for the price of a PS3" posts...

Meanwhile Sony fans are the bullies. Naw, they are just biting back at all the crap they took for years.



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Euphoria14 on 02 January 2013
S.T.A.G.E. said:
I joined the site as an Xbox 360 only gamer....go figure.

MS fans loved you back then and PS fans didn't.

Now PS fans love you and MS fans don't.

 

You know when you go Nintendo only you're going to be ganged up on BIG time right?



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BenVTrigger on 02 January 2013

I think a lot of people are missing the point of my OP.

This isnt about who has the most members for arguments and stuff for conse wars. Im asking if there will ever be a thriving community in the 360 forum just discussing lots ot Xbox stuff. Right now threads in the Xbox forum usually die very quickly



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sales2099 on 02 January 2013
pezus said:
sales2099 said:

Most traffic is from North America and UK. 360 turf.......

Youd think 360 gamers should be the majority but instead Sony fans are and for 360 you just have the few zealous fans such as myself.

360 gamers just play. The numbers say it for themselves like Halo 4, Minecraft, and COD for a few prime examples. PS3 game sales in 2012 were very low, hell they all are more or less on par with JUST Halo 4.

It all boils down to the bronze medal. 360 gamers just game. PS3 gamers need that reassurance that their tastes and console are amazing. So they flood the forums to create a false sense of majority opinion.

This isnt vgchartz Spain, Japan, or whatever country PS3 is dominant in. This site is for North American and UK gamers mostly. For 360 gamers to be a minority just tells me that they really see no reason to validate themselves...because they allready won.

I think you need to look at this: http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2012/Global/

Point?



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Torillian on 02 January 2013
sales2099 said:
pezus said:
sales2099 said:

Most traffic is from North America and UK. 360 turf.......

Youd think 360 gamers should be the majority but instead Sony fans are and for 360 you just have the few zealous fans such as myself.

360 gamers just play. The numbers say it for themselves like Halo 4, Minecraft, and COD for a few prime examples. PS3 game sales in 2012 were very low, hell they all are more or less on par with JUST Halo 4.

It all boils down to the bronze medal. 360 gamers just game. PS3 gamers need that reassurance that their tastes and console are amazing. So they flood the forums to create a false sense of majority opinion.

This isnt vgchartz Spain, Japan, or whatever country PS3 is dominant in. This site is for North American and UK gamers mostly. For 360 gamers to be a minority just tells me that they really see no reason to validate themselves...because they allready won.

I think you need to look at this: http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2012/Global/

Point?


probably this bit:


Global Software by Platform

PlatformYearly (change)Total
X360 137,316,716 (-11%) 731,253,117
PS3 130,870,084 (-12%) 635,424,313

which goes against the idea that 360 gamers are buying vastly more games than PS3 gamers.



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NintendoPie on 02 January 2013

I doubt it.
And just because there is no strictly XBox fans doesn't mean there aren't any Hybrid fans on here. Or what I like to call, Grays.



sales2099 on 02 January 2013
Torillian said:
sales2099 said:
pezus said:
sales2099 said:

Most traffic is from North America and UK. 360 turf.......

Youd think 360 gamers should be the majority but instead Sony fans are and for 360 you just have the few zealous fans such as myself.

360 gamers just play. The numbers say it for themselves like Halo 4, Minecraft, and COD for a few prime examples. PS3 game sales in 2012 were very low, hell they all are more or less on par with JUST Halo 4.

It all boils down to the bronze medal. 360 gamers just game. PS3 gamers need that reassurance that their tastes and console are amazing. So they flood the forums to create a false sense of majority opinion.

This isnt vgchartz Spain, Japan, or whatever country PS3 is dominant in. This site is for North American and UK gamers mostly. For 360 gamers to be a minority just tells me that they really see no reason to validate themselves...because they allready won.

I think you need to look at this: http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2012/Global/

Point?


probably this bit:

 

Global Software by Platform

 

PlatformYearly (change)Total
X360 137,316,716 (-11%) 731,253,117
PS3 130,870,084 (-12%) 635,424,313

which goes against the idea that 360 gamers are buying vastly more games than PS3 gamers.

Thats what I thought he meant. Thats global data, factoring in countries that PS3 is dominant in. That has no relation to vgchartz community.

My post refered to Vgchartz getting NA and UK traffic...yet there is a PS3 fan majority. The sales being on par with Halo 4 was referring to exclusives, perhaps I should have specified that.

Either way, countering one point doesnt excuse the rest of my post.



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Torillian on 02 January 2013
sales2099 said:
Torillian said:


probably this bit:

 

Global Software by Platform

 

PlatformYearly (change)Total
X360 137,316,716 (-11%) 731,253,117
PS3 130,870,084 (-12%) 635,424,313

which goes against the idea that 360 gamers are buying vastly more games than PS3 gamers.

Thats what I thought he meant. Thats global data, factoring in countries that PS3 is dominant in. That has no relation to vgchartz community.

My post refered to Vgchartz getting NA and UK traffic...yet there is a PS3 fan majority. The sales being on par with Halo 4 was referring to exclusives, perhaps I should have specified that.

Either way, countering one point doesnt excuse the rest of my post.


Well if we're talking about NA then the numbers would be:

USA Software by Platform

PlatformYearly (change)Total
X360 72,659,619 (-17%) 415,526,891
PS3 47,311,313 (-24%) 255,099,204

which is a ratio of 360:PS3 software of 1.536 which roughly coincides with the ratio between their NA install bases of 42.0/25.8 or 1.628 ratio.  So again, per gamer you are looking at a mininmal difference between the amount of software being bought by each which does not coincide with your idea that software shows 360 gamers are all playing games while PS3 gamers are now.  

After that the rest of the post is just assumptions based on next to nothing, so I think defeating that point really does excuse the rest of the post.



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