A sample size of 9000 people polled is virtually meaningless, thats not even 0.001% of the Switch userbase.
It also means even by their metric 75% of new Switch owners also own another console even in a pandemic year which makes that crowd still the overwhelming majority even by the surveys own metric.
| Soundwave said: A sample size of 9000 people polled is virtually meaningless, thats not even 0.001% of the Switch userbase. |
A 9k sample size for a population of 80 million is anything but meaningless
I'm more concerned with how the sample was chosen than with the sample size
Dante9 said:
I wonder how much of this is just that, a lightning in a bottle. Like the Wii. When the pandemic eventually recedes, will these people keep buying games or will they return to their former activities and leave the Switch gathering dust? |
Why on Earth would Switch players stop buying games when the pandemic ends? They were already buying games in massive quantities before there was a plague.
If anything's a lightning in a bottle situation it's the perfect storm of bad circumstances and choices that led to the Wii U's failure. That was a one-off event, not a repeated pattern.
Last edited by curl-6 - on 09 February 2021
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OK, this notion that people who owned a Wii didn't buy games is bullshit. It had about a 9 games per console ratio. I'm buying as many games for Switch during the pandemic as I was pre-pandemic.
| Soundwave said: A sample size of 9000 people polled is virtually meaningless, thats not even 0.001% of the Switch userbase. |
This is an usually well working sample, if chosen randomly.
| Leynos said: OK, this notion that people who owned a Wii didn't buy games is bullshit. It had about a 9 games per console ratio. I'm buying as many games for Switch during the pandemic as I was pre-pandemic. |
And you have to account also, that Wii has a bit lower attach rate because Nintendo dropped Wii support early. So it probably would be higher than 9 if Nintendo kept supporting the console.
Mnementh said:
And you have to account also, that Wii has a bit lower attach rate because Nintendo dropped Wii support early. So it probably would be higher than 9 if Nintendo kept supporting the console. |
I'm pretty sure Nintendo included Wii Sports apart of their software sales which was a packaged game so that attach rate number is inflated by nearly 1 so the attach rate is closer to 8. Still an impressive number though for a console that sold 100M and was dropped relatively quick.
| Soundwave said: A sample size of 9000 people polled is virtually meaningless |
Wrong. A random sample of 9000 in a population of 80 million calculates to a margin of error of 1%.
Last edited by Jumpin - on 11 February 2021I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
Yeah the notion that Wii owners bought it for Wii Sports/Fit, played nothing else, and stowed in away in the attic forever after a week was always an invention of salty fanboys, bitter that it was beating their preferred system.
| curl-6 said: Yeah the notion that Wii owners bought it for Wii Sports/Fit, played nothing else, and stowed in away in the attic forever after a week was always an invention of salty fanboys, bitter that it was beating their preferred system. |
Have two friends, Pc gamers, buy only three videogames: Wii, DS and Switch.
And one friend has stopped play everything, but now he plays on Switch. Because Switch could fit in your life.
the former-gamers seems far stronger on Switch.
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