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kowenicki said:
So that small sample also helps debunk the idea of the diverse PS3 demographic that I constantly hear. Very similar percentages of most played genres online and it could be argued is more diverse for the 360 offline.

You can't infer anything for the offline diversity of either 360 or PS3 because percentages weren't given. The two 360 genres that tied for offline popularity could have been 40% each (unlikely) leaving only 20% for all the other genres, which means not a lot of diversity. PS3 on the other hand could have been 15% and 12% respectively for the top 2 genres making 73% of gamers pread through all the other genres, which means a great deal of diversity. Or it could be the other way 'round with the 360 being a 10% tie for the top two and the PS3 being 45% & 40% for the top 2. So you can't debunk or bunk any claims based on this information.

 



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This puts the range of people who own a Wii and a HD console (or two) at roughly 25 Million, which demonstrates that there is a large base of users who would be interested in high quality conventional games for the Wii; and that it is probably a waste of time and money to "port" inferior versions of HD console games to the Wii months/years after they have been released for the HD consoles.

To but this into more solid numbers to demonstrate my point, if 25 Million people own a Wii and an HD console you can probably estimate the number of Wii owners that are at least somewhat interested in conventional games at more than 37.5 Million users; but this would mean that the number of Wii owners that are interested in a game like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare several years after its HD console release is roughly 12.5 Million.



Is it safe to conclude that Wii haters actually bought the Wii just so they can hate it?



Galaki said:
Is it safe to conclude that Wii haters actually bought the Wii just so they can hate it?


And also so they can claim it collect dust in a corner(shouldn't it collect more dust when it's on then off?)



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These are huge numbers. I mean, around half of the people owning a console owns more than 1? Freaky!

Is there anyone good enough at math to entangle just how many single/double/triple owners there would be from these numbers?



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Killergran - that's cos it's an internet survey. They no doubt surveyed gaming websites, so of course they're gonna get the most dedicated gamers



Interesting. PS3 owners are the most likely to own multiple consoles. I wonder what that says about the PS3.



Words Of Wisdom said:
Interesting. PS3 owners are the most likely to own multiple consoles. I wonder what that says about the PS3.

It really doesn't do everything



Xoj said:
conclusion.
ps3 owners have more money :P.

Might be because they continued to have two jobs :P



 

Words Of Wisdom said:
Interesting. PS3 owners are the most likely to own multiple consoles. I wonder what that says about the PS3.

I think the standard reply is that PS3 owners are older and have more disposable income.



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