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Kerotan on 19 October 2018

Sony really doing well in that digital market. Almost 3% of all Internet traffic WW is from Sony. Netflix hugely dominant at 15% and YouTube very impressive at 11%. Prime video at 3.7% and all others combined 34%. Sony must be happy. 

https://www.statista.com/chart/15692/distribution-of-global-downstream-traffic/

 



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Barkley on 19 October 2018

That's kind of crazy, I assume as other game services weren't included they're lower. Which be surprising for steam, not for the other consoles though.



Barkley on 19 October 2018
Ka-pi96 said:

hmm, seems to be a bit of a misleading title. Makes it sound like 15% of internet users use Netflix or that 15% of time spent on the internet is on Netflix or something but the stats are only for mbs of data which is completely different. It would be nice if things could be labelled accurately rather than twisted to make things sound better or worse than they actually are, but with humanity the way it is there's not much chance of that ever happening

Internet Traffic is measured in amount of data, I don't find it misleading and certainly not twisted.



setsunatenshi on 19 October 2018
Ka-pi96 said:

hmm, seems to be a bit of a misleading title. Makes it sound like 15% of internet users use Netflix or that 15% of time spent on the internet is on Netflix or something but the stats are only for mbs of data which is completely different. It would be nice if things could be labelled accurately rather than twisted to make things sound better or worse than they actually are, but with humanity the way it is there's not much chance of that ever happening

only misleading if you don't know the meaning of words

always seeing conspiracies everywhere... that is, as well, the way humanity is xD



Megiddo on 19 October 2018

Wow. How in the world is Valve/Steam not in this?



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VAMatt on 19 October 2018
Ka-pi96 said:

hmm, seems to be a bit of a misleading title. Makes it sound like 15% of internet users use Netflix or that 15% of time spent on the internet is on Netflix or something but the stats are only for mbs of data which is completely different. It would be nice if things could be labelled accurately rather than twisted to make things sound better or worse than they actually are, but with humanity the way it is there's not much chance of that ever happening

I don't really find it misleading, but I understand what you're saying.  It would be interesting to also see the stats for what websites get significant amounts of  people's time, rather than just amount of data use. Obviously, data use is going to skew towards data-intensive activities like streaming video and downloading gigantic video game files.



setsunatenshi on 19 October 2018
VAMatt said:
Ka-pi96 said:

hmm, seems to be a bit of a misleading title. Makes it sound like 15% of internet users use Netflix or that 15% of time spent on the internet is on Netflix or something but the stats are only for mbs of data which is completely different. It would be nice if things could be labelled accurately rather than twisted to make things sound better or worse than they actually are, but with humanity the way it is there's not much chance of that ever happening

I don't really find it misleading, but I understand what you're saying.  It would be interesting to also see the stats for what websites get significant amounts of  people's time, rather than just amount of data use. Obviously, data use is going to skew towards data-intensive activities like streaming video and downloading gigantic video game files.

how would you measure that? by self reporting?

 

"I swear, I totally didn't spend 2 hours on youPr0n yesterday" :D

 

Once the data is loaded, no one can tell how long of your personal time you spend looking at whatever website. It has to be measured by volume of data being transfered



Chorlin on 19 October 2018

Excuse me Sir, an honest question: Are you in love with the company?



Mandalore76 on 19 October 2018
Barkley said:

That's kind of crazy, I assume as other game services weren't included they're lower. Which be surprising for steam, not for the other consoles though.

If it includes the mandatory installation of all physical media in addition to digital, I'm not surprised that 70 million PS4's would generate that high of download traffic.



Barkley on 19 October 2018
Mandalore76 said:
Barkley said:

That's kind of crazy, I assume as other game services weren't included they're lower. Which be surprising for steam, not for the other consoles though.

If it includes the mandatory installation of all physical media in addition to digital, I'm not surprised that 70 million PS4's would generate that high of download traffic.

Installing data from a disc isn't internet traffic.