Comments on: Xbox Live and PlayStation Network: how many gamers use them?

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:12:57 +0000

MM: I think if you looked a bit harder on the link you posted you would have found this http://www.npd.com/corpServlet?nextpage=entertainment-categories_s.html
Which clearly states a lot more countries than just north America.

By: Poppa_P

Poppa_P — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:37:48 +0000

I don’t like downloading games on xbox, if I buy a game from a store and clock the game I can part exchange it against a new game, what option do you have once you download a game?

By: MetalMickey

MetalMickey — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:54:22 +0000

Errm, it’s North American data only…

http://www.npd.com/corpServlet?nextpage=consumer-technology-categories_s.html

Look at the countries covered…

Canada
Mexico
U.S.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:25:35 +0000

MM: NPD no longer stands for anything. The group is a global market research organisation.

As for how representative their data is, I don’t know. But I suspect they probably used a sample data set of more than 20 people working in the same office.

By: MetalMickey

MetalMickey — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:53:14 +0000

You realise what the N stands for in NPD?

It’s not worldwide….

By: Simon Munk

Simon Munk — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:47:19 +0000

MM
a) It’s NPD – a widely-respected sales monitoring and research organisation you’re doubting, not Pachter.
b) You’re then taking your group of mates as a far more representative sample of worldwide gamers than NPD?
c) NPD do not appear to be talking about boxed content, but all paid-for content.

By: MetalMickey

MetalMickey — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:09:00 +0000

Hmm, I don’t believe these numbers one bit.

All the numbers (and anecdotal evidence points otherwise).

Patcher is saying 1 in 5 Xbox owners download. Look at the 360 active userbase of about 25m consoles (taking into account RROD numbers of sales), and that means that GTA IV Lost And Damned sold to 50% of the Xbox downloading userbase. Considering I don’t know a single Xbox owner that bought it, means someone is lying..

I also don’t know of a single PS3 owner that does not download from PSN, 100% coverage in my sample of about 20 or so owners here at work.

Is patcher talking only about FULL Priced Boxed games for download (ie games that are available in retail and online)? As clearly Microsoft don’t have ANY titles yet, and PSN only has about 7 or so (Warhawk, GT5:P, Siren Blood Curse, Burnout Paradise + some others I forget).