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kupomogli on 04 November 2013
DialgaMarine said:

 Pretty much what I'm saying though. The system did have a decent ammount of hype after E3 '12, because Nintendo promised a super powerful next gen system with a robust online service and third party support unrivaled by any other Nintendo system in history. People who actually purchased it (myself included) didn't get any of that.  

 

That's your fault though.  You knew months before it released how weak it actia;;u was.  Even the exclusives thhat were coming out didn't look better than games found on the PS360.  It's not like these games didn't make an appearance and it was only after launch that you could have found all this out.  When I say most people were bashing the Wii U, it was after the info came out and prior to the consoles launch.

Of course, who could have forseen that it wouldn't be supported.  Same as my purchase of the Vita.  You'd assume even if the Wii U was less powerful that it would atleast receive decent support.  The Vita is far more powerful than the 3DS and PSP and it also doesn't receive support. 



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kitler53 on 04 November 2013

girls want phones and boys one video games. ...not exactly surprising results here.



DialgaMarine on 04 November 2013
kupomogli said:
DialgaMarine said:

 Pretty much what I'm saying though. The system did have a decent ammount of hype after E3 '12, because Nintendo promised a super powerful next gen system with a robust online service and third party support unrivaled by any other Nintendo system in history. People who actually purchased it (myself included) didn't get any of that.  

 

That's your fault though.  You knew months before it released how weak it actia;;u was.  Even the exclusives thhat were coming out didn't look better than games found on the PS360.  It's not like these games didn't make an appearance and it was only after launch that you could have found all this out.  When I say most people were bashing the Wii U, it was after the info came out and prior to the consoles launch.

Of course, who could have forseen that it wouldn't be supported.  Same as my purchase of the Vita.  You'd assume even if the Wii U was less powerful that it would atleast receive decent support.  The Vita is far more powerful than the 3DS and PSP and it also doesn't receive support. 

 I guess, but even Vita has recieved better support than the Wii-U thus, or at least it recieved more and better games. I was giving the Wii-U the benefit of the doubt when I bought it. I thiought Nintendo might actually be going back to their roots with it, but boy was I horribly wrong.





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RenCutypoison on 04 November 2013
Nintentacle said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Psh. Everyone knows any survey just have sony fans respondung

Then why do the girls want Iphones?

You don't know yet ? There are no girls on the internet



aikohualda on 04 November 2013

and gay men like me wants PS move :P

i kid i kid

actually i want a wiiu and a ps4 but i need to settle for one console... decision decision



 

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Dr.EisDrachenJaeger on 04 November 2013
DialgaMarine said:
kupomogli said:
DialgaMarine said:
kupomogli said:
tbone51 said:
Never trust these things, Remember WiiU+Vita beginning of the year in japan? 3DS was third and Vita had such a high percentage but yet look at sales

People wanted a Vita when they heard the price of the Vita and 3DS were both going to be $250.  Once Nintendo dropped the 3DS to $179, Vita no longer interested people.  People lost interest in the Vita prior to the launch of the system.

 Then people lost interest in the Wii-U post launch because they realized that Nintendo wasn't delivering the product they promised. 

Wii U didn't have a lot of hype prior to the launch either.  I seem to remember a lot of people bashing it because it was way too expensive for a system that's just as powerful as the PS3.  Nintendo fans were the only one that were backing it up and repeating how everyone hated the Wii before launch and that sold the most consoles this gen.  Nintendo fans were also fixated on the rumor that the PS4 and Next Box would be just as powerful as the WIi U because graphics have peaked, and that all Wii U games were going to be 1080p 60fps

 Pretty much what I'm saying though. The system did have a decent ammount of hype after E3 '12, because Nintendo promised a super powerful next gen system with a robust online service and third party support unrivaled by any other Nintendo system in history. People who actually purchased it (myself included) didn't get any of that. 

:They all just ran away right before the system launched



famousringo on 04 November 2013
fatslob-:O said:
The thing about making surveys more accurate are the amount of samples. If you have too little samples your poll is inaccurate and therefore can not be used to represent statistical evidence. When you start to have over 10000 samples and maybe even 50000 a survey will start to become more accurate and will converge to the correct statistics.


Actually a sample size of merely 1,000 people can draw pretty accurate conclusions for a population of almost any size. The biggest challenge in stats isn't getting a bigger sample, but in getting a more representative one. Did you only survey people with a landline phone? An internet connection? All urban dwellers? You wanted kids 12-17, but were most of them 15 and up?

This page does a nice job of explaining it:

http://www.dfrank.com/samplesize.htm

Generally, samples of 1,000 are well regarded for national surveys. (The layman, however, might be critical of samples of 1,000 or 2,000 considering an adult population of 180 million or so – particularly when their favorite TV show is threatened with cancellation because of poor ratings.) The key to good research, however, is not sample size so much as it is getting representative samples. Even if we survey 100,000 people and they are not representative of our target market (let's say they are all university students and we are investigating washing detergent purchases) then sample size means nothing. Therefore, in research investigations, whenever possible, use random sampling procedures with controls in place to insure our target market is properly represented.



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fatslob-:O on 04 November 2013
famousringo said:
fatslob-:O said:
The thing about making surveys more accurate are the amount of samples. If you have too little samples your poll is inaccurate and therefore can not be used to represent statistical evidence. When you start to have over 10000 samples and maybe even 50000 a survey will start to become more accurate and will converge to the correct statistics.


Actually a sample size of merely 1,000 people can draw pretty accurate conclusions for a population of almost any size. The biggest challenge in stats isn't getting a bigger sample, but in getting a more representative one. Did you only survey people with a landline phone? An internet connection? All urban dwellers? You wanted kids 12-17, but were most of them 15 and up?

This page does a nice job of explaining it:

http://www.dfrank.com/samplesize.htm

Generally, samples of 1,000 are well regarded for national surveys. (The layman, however, might be critical of samples of 1,000 or 2,000 considering an adult population of 180 million or so – particularly when their favorite TV show is threatened with cancellation because of poor ratings.) The key to good research, however, is not sample size so much as it is getting representative samples. Even if we survey 100,000 people and they are not representative of our target market (let's say they are all university students and we are investigating washing detergent purchases) then sample size means nothing. Therefore, in research investigations, whenever possible, use random sampling procedures with controls in place to insure our target market is properly represented.

You learn something everyday then. To add I had also thought it would have needed a demographic constraints. Thanks for sharing me more info.