Console Brand Loyalty and Lifestyle Choices 132
RotoGo writes "A new survey done by GamerMetrics shows that 38% of gamers prefer the Playstation 3, making it the most anticipated system. The Wii only got 22% of the audience as their number one choice. Perhaps more interesting are the 'lifestyle' choices reported by the survey. Nirvana was cited as the favorite band for those loyal to the Xbox brand and Eminem was the top pick for the Playstation brand. The Nintendo camp prefers Gorillaz and Smallville for entertainment. The study also discovered that people that like the Xbox brand are the most likely to own an iPod and a TiVo while it is the Playstation gamers who are most likely to go outside to see a movie."
Sounds like a hygene product (Score:3, Funny)
Nintendo: Lifestyles (for men's pleasure)
Re:Sounds like a hygene product (Score:3, Funny)
Wrong market. The console's clearly not targetted at the 20-30 crowd. It should be "Nintendo: Lifestyles (for kid's pleasure)."
Re:Sounds like a hygene product (Score:2)
It should be Nintendo Wand, for a womens pleasure.
Re:Sounds like a hygene product (Score:2)
I'm looking at you, Cardinal Mahoney!
The unasked question (Score:3, Funny)
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Obviously you need an asymmetrical hair cut that covers half your face, to compliment your RIDICULOUSLY HUGE sunglasses. Pony tail?!?!?!
DONT U KNO NYTHING!?!?!?!?
ZOMG IM POSTING THIS ON MYSPACE LOL
XBox (Score:1)
Re:The unasked question (Score:1)
Having any console will reduce your chances of getting laid.
Why? Two factors:
1) Time. The more you play, the less you meet people in real life.
2) Friends. Your friends will want to play the console you own when they are over and usually that's pretty boring for the women. Plus, your friends are more likely to include gamers, who in turn also play too much and hang around too little with people and as such reducing the pool of femals in your clique.
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Survey of what? (Score:3, Insightful)
Other findings about this particular subset of perhaps atypical, but nonetheless important customers include the facts that 70% own a handheld gaming device (their preferred handheld being the PSP)
So even though the results of the survey predict a 70% market share for the PSP, in reality the DS is dominating the market. Obviously, the survey has too narrow of a sample (subset of a population) to be worth anything.
Re:Survey of what? (Score:1)
Re:Survey of what? (Score:1)
Handheld hardware sales are usually [...] 20-25% DS and 25-30% PSP in the U.S.
Is that units or dollars? Remember that one can buy two DS systems or a DS and a portable DVD player for the price of a PSP, and DS games also tend to run $10 cheaper than PSP games.
Re:Survey of what? (Score:1)
Re:Survey of what? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Survey of what? (Score:1)
saying that most portable gamers preferr a PSP doesn't meen that they actually HAVE a PSP.
Bad for Sony (Score:4, Interesting)
I've been a sony fan for quite some time and I am beginning to wonder where exactly is sony going with its PS3.
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:1, Insightful)
might I ask why... did you miss the rootkit? the way they are twats about customers? the licencing agreements which tie people down so much that they are effectively getting fucked in the ass by Phoney. Fuck that.
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:2)
I don't care about the rootkits, because I don't buy music, I download it, so no worries there. Besides, most music that has come out lately sucks anyways.
This survey sucks too, because I love Nirvana, hate Eminem, but apparently I bought the wrong console.
Whatever in the future, I hope that all games/consoles will
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:2)
This time I have a 360 (my old XBox broke), and I'm planning on a PS3. I don't see a need to limit myself just because of who or what it is. I want something to have for relaxing with. The same way I don't rant against PCs just because I have a console.
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Re:Bad for Sony (Score:3, Insightful)
Did you notice this about the time that your voice started changing?
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:2)
I feel the same way, except I've come to hate certain things about the Sony products. In particular Sony doesn't seem to be able to make a durable laser unit under any circumstances. I've never hung onto a PS2 long enough to have it fail but I had two PSX (original, not the DVR) units stop reading CDs, and my PSOne only works while inverted. Granted, the DVD-ROM in my Xbox is going out, but it's going out gradually, it didn't just suddenly crap itself and it's been limping along for over a year since it st
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:2)
-Eric
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:1)
I hope that all games/consoles will allow me to play my own MP3's as background music.
Wouldn't that completely throw off the synchronization in rhythm games such as Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution, and the WarioWare series? And what about games that rely on music to set a mood?
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:2)
Apparently, you are a prime candidate for "Brand Loyalty Confusion" therapy.
Apparently, you are also a prime candidate for hospitalization.
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:2)
Might I ask why you can't tell the difference between Sony Music and SCEA? This company is so huge that the different divisions hold no sway over each other.
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:1)
Right, and thats why the PS3 is going to ship with a potentially budget-busting/fan-alienating $1100 Blu-Ray player (stand-alone price minimum) built in so that Sony can attempt to take the HD-Video market share and defeat HDDVD.
And that's why Sony had to part with the HDDVD project so that they could offer up their own version of HD video discs wi
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:2)
Corporate decided that they were going to use the PS3 to gain control of the next wave of HD medium delivery vehicles, the PS2 did it with DVD, so they're going to do it again.
So my point still stands. Sony Music has no say over what SCEA does. The rootkit, while evil, was not used in SCEA products - so the comparison
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:1)
If you believe Sony's experience in gaining wider DVD acceptance through the PS2 played no part in their belief that they could now use the same strategy to push a new format - thus tying every division of Sony's sales figures to the success/failure of Blu-Ray, you're just insane. Your own argument contradicts
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:2)
Jesus. SCEA has NO SWAY over Sony Music. Sony Corporate has ALL the sway. Get if fucking straight man. I never argued against this being the plan. I never argued against Sony Corporate making these decisions. I Said SOny Music doesn't make decisions for SCEA. LEARN TO READ ASSHOLE.
Re:Bad for Sony (Score:2)
Seriousness? 0%, it is an IGN based study (Score:2)
At best this "study" reflects the habits of IGN survey respondants (remember, no survey ever reflects the opinions of those who punch the surveyor) wich is a subsection of the gaming market.
What I find even more telling is that the PC ain't listed. IGN does cover PC gaming and although the 360 looked to be powerfull games lik
Lifestyle Choices (Score:1)
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Re:Lifestyle Choices (Score:1)
Teri Hatcher has gone far downhill since her Lois & Clark days. She is quite the freak show now.
Exhibit A: http://www.wwtdd.com/index.php?type=cat&name=more% 20Teri%20Hatcher [wwtdd.com]
Re:Lifestyle Choices (Score:2)
Glad they wasted my time... (Score:1)
Re:Glad they wasted my time... (Score:1)
-xbox fanboy
Brand loyalty? What's that? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm apparently loyal only to the economy at large.
Re:Brand loyalty? What's that? (Score:2)
Re:Brand loyalty? What's that? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Brand loyalty? What's that? (Score:2)
But it comes with a special limited collectors edition action figure.
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You are only a dupe if you rush out and get a 360, PSP, and when it comes out the PS/3.
I have less invested in my PS/2 and GC than anyone with a 360 has spent.
Re:Brand loyalty? What's that? (Score:1)
Isn't it? (Score:2)
He just got the first version. The sad bit is that it probably got more memory then any of the next-gen consoles. Life is weird.
Re:Brand loyalty? What's that? (Score:2)
NES
Sega Genesis
Nintendo 64
Sega Dreamcast
PS2
Xbox
Xbox 360
Nintendo DS
I think people like you and I are just loyal gamers, not brand-loyal fanboys.
What? (Score:2)
Re:What? (Score:2)
Of course, I'm not sure how pleased about my collection the lady is going to be after we get married in a few months. I'd better get my own "game room"
Re:Brand loyalty? What's that? (Score:2)
NES
Genesis (with 32X and Sega CD addon's)
SNES
N64
Dreamcast
PS2
Gamecube
Xbox
Gameboy Advance
Had a GameGear too but I sold it a while back. Nice system but chewed through batteries way too quick.
And for the irony, the Xbox was free (won it as a door prize at a Microsoft campus event when they were showing a new version of Visual Studio), and is fully modded. I had a D-Link DSM-320 for my living room media player but Xbox with XBMC blows the D-Link away
Re:Brand loyalty? What's that? (Score:2)
I have an
Atari 2600
N64
Dreamcast
PS2
GC
GBC
and a GBA
Re:Brand loyalty? What's that? (Score:1)
Re:Brand loyalty? What's that? (Score:2)
Ha, just kidding. With all those consoles, you wouldn't have time for a gf anyway. And, by my experience, you come out ahead on the money.
You Fool! (Score:1)
I've an Xbox, a PS/2, a Gamecube, a DS, an Xbox360 and a PSP.
You fool, the Xbox clashes with the PS2 and the Game Cube should never be in the same room as an XBox 360. Have you no sense of Feng Shui?!?
I'm apparently loyal only to the economy at large.
Could be. I'd hate to think there are those who use such a survey as a shopping list.
"let's see, to be a proper xbox maven I'll need spruce martha stewart bath towels..."
I think when I see a certain crowd prefers Nirvana that they are old farts, bu
Funny, I think (Score:2)
I think when I see a certain crowd prefers Nirvana that they are old farts
I think when I see a person who thinks people that like Nirvana count as old I am talking to a kid of about 10. Am I right?
Re:Brand loyalty? What's that? (Score:2)
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don't have one, don't intend to get one. period. far better things to spend hard-earned cash on. where's that option in the survey? the majority of the population couldn't care less about the latest-and-greatest brain-mushing video game console.
haven't bought a console in over 20 years. and yes, we still have the ol' 2600 & it sees regular use to this day. try as they may, but no one has come close to recreating super-breakout on a 2600 with paddl
Shocking! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Shocking! (Score:2)
No, actually it isn't [wikipedia.org].
If the study came back saying console group X preferred console Y, someone would post saying "that's obvious, X sucked, I own it and am looking forward to Y"
I heard... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I heard... (Score:1)
go outside to see a movie (Score:1)
But seriously, why the troll spin on that? Contrasting an affinity for gadgets with a predisposition to "going outside" is pretty inflammatory, given the target audience (us), and I'm hard pressed to believe that it was accidental.
Lifestyle, based on consoles? (Score:4, Insightful)
Erh?
Don't get me wrong, but how is that supposedly connected? I own a few Nintendo pieces. Do I have to listen to Gorillaz now? And since I can't have TiVo and go to the movies (obviously, or I'd have to embrace the PS3 and the X360), do I have to download my movies?
Think of the statistics surrounding the future distribution of the console market what you want. It might even hold about at that area. But hanging the lifestyle of a person onto his choice of consoles is a bit silly. What does a console tell about a person? That he plays games. Ok. That's something EVERY console tells about him.
It might hold some water when you hang it onto the price tags of the consoles, with XBox usually being the most expensive, PS behind and Nintendo coming in cheap. You might put demographics down based on that, i.e. that XBox players can and do spend more money on entertainment, and that they might be more likely to spend "more easily", be it that they have more money to spend or that they are more willing to shell it out for entertainment, with Nintendo players going for the budget line, out of necessity or because they're not willing to spend as much money on entertainment.
So maybe it's true, a Nintendo player probably downloads his movies...
Re:Lifestyle, based on consoles? (Score:2)
All I know is that my complete and total hatred of Enimem is almost enough to make me consider an Xbox 360 instead to avoid being associated with Enimem fans.
Almost.
Re:Lifestyle, based on consoles? (Score:2)
Whoops. I mispelled "no talent washed-up hack with mother issues who helped ruin my favorite alternative station" twice.
Re:Lifestyle, based on consoles? (Score:2)
Re:Lifestyle, based on consoles? (Score:2)
I myself buy Nintendo consoles first, have owned at least one of each Gameboy iteration, and even have a couple T's in my closet that have the classic Nintendo logo on them. I don't like Smallville and only moderately enjoy the quirkiness in Gorillaz tunes.
Hypothesis busted. It isn't a big damn deal.
Whenever you read an article like this just remember to add "Of those su
Re:Lifestyle, based on consoles? (Score:3, Informative)
Err, this is a marketing-based study. It doesn't say that if you watch the XBox that you listen to Eminem. The idea is to get an idea of where and how to spend marketing dollar
Follow The Money (Score:1)
Lifestyle choices? (Score:1)
* Offer does not apply in Gondor.
Re:Lifestyle choices? (Score:2)
I wasn't aware that watching TV and listening to music constituted a life.
Re:Lifestyle choices? (Score:1)
Some people, it is rumoured, thought watching Friends and discussing it at work the next day constituted a life. Small wonder they were so disappointed to see it finally end. They doubtlessly thanked their lucky stars for Suvivor, Lost, etc. Though I don't think any of these people actually play video games.
Adventuresome Movie-Watchers (Score:2)
While I can see that it is likely that one would have to venture outside for a brief period of time in order to get to the large dark cavern in which movies are shown, in my mind, going to see a movie =/= going outside. It could just be me.
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Uhhh. (Score:2)
This generation of consoles is the first where I actually haven't bought one (or all) of the consoles. The only reason I ever choose one over the other is software available. I could care less which company has their name on a console, I only care about what games it plays. Am I in the minority?
So... (Score:3, Insightful)
To me the only interesting part is that ... (Score:1)
Given that the poll shows only an 8% difference between the Xbox360 and the PS3, those 14% of gamers could very easily tilt the most-popular-console-o-meter in either direction. Of course, I'm holding out for the PS3 since I'm one of those 36%. I'm also not even a serious gamer. For me, it's a cheap Blu-ray player and with confirmed rumors [1up.com] of a FFVII remake I'm pretty much sold. Throw in to that the fact that it will run linux [ps3blog.net] and what more do you need? It'll be interes
Re:To me the only interesting part is that ... (Score:1)
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Square Enix
When Square Enix showed off a tech demo of the opening of FFVII with improved graphics and character designs more like Advent Children, many people took this to suggest that a remake was in order. Which is indeed the case - director/producer Tetsuya Nomura admitted to 1UP that he does indeed intend to turn it into a remake (when he gets to it).
The interview you are referencing is a link below this
Self-selecting audience of idiots (Score:2)
I mean, those are the only reasons I can think of to reaad IGN.
--Jeremy (ex-IGN reader)
Am I an enigma, or is the survey flawed? (Score:2)
Current console? GameCube. (Wii)
Current handheld? DS (Wii)
Band? Nirvana (X360)
Favorite TV show? Lost (X360)
Tivo? Yes (X360)
Movies in past 30? Yes (PS3)
iPod? Yes (X360)
So, will I buy a Wii, X360 or PS3? Per the survey, they believe that I will buy the X360, but I am going to buy the Wii. Why? Because I am buying it for my kids.
The survey is geared to those who play the games, not necessarily the people buying the consoles. Since the
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