Nielsen: Wii audience is youngest, PS3 audience is oldest

not always!

I wonder, do chickens lay eggs or are these analysts just idiots? How much do they get paid for stupid research? $100,000 a study?

"Recently, Stanford Professors have found that texting while driving is equivalent to a woman in labor driving. Both are not safe and officers state that it is a health hazard."

idiots...

I sent a text on my commute this morning, does that mean I'm pregnant?

Yes.

Well, if I'm reading that right, it sounds like I should've gone into labor by now, so I'm going to go get induced.

If it's a boy, I'll name him David Hinkle, and if it's a girl, I'll name her Jerk Face.

What's unfortunate is that all those 12-17 year olds playing Xbox 360 are playing Mature-rated games. Another failure for the ratings system....

I can imagine the poor women in labour that were made to drive cars just to prove this study... :-P

I still haven't figured out what makes Halo an M rated game, aside from the racist homophobes online, which every game's rating screen insists isn't part of the ESRB's purview.

Shouldn't the Wii have the oldest audience from all the grannies and soccer moms? Shouldn't the PS3 have the youngest? I mean given all the fan boys and how they act like kids when someone says something they don't like. The 360 is the right spot at being in the middle. Some older gamers, some annoying fanboys.

@Goodwin,

It's might be the alien gore. But more likely, it's too make little kids want it more.

"Ooh, the forbidden fruit!"

All 360 owners go sell your shit (if it hasn't RROD'd) and get a PS3. It now has the best games, the best Blu-rays, the best free online gaming, the best of everything.

Killzone 2 is coming.

32 player servers, squads, clan support, tournament support, multiple classes, 7.1 uncompressed audio, 2 million preorders, Blu-ray ftw.

phinn ftl! go away you silly fanboy

In other news, I'd like to annouce the arrival of Jerk Face Johnson everyone! Baby shower to be held at your mom's house!

@phinnvr6, sorry, but I enjoy my 360 way to much to sell it.

But I did sell my Wii and buy a referb PS3 for $270.

Maybe these Nielsen guys are on to something...

@Markez

You know that party....the party where you got drunk and then passed out? ...Yeah....I'm going to fight you for custody. Be ready.




I don't trust Nielsen. Never have, never will, and this is no exception. That having been said, is it any surprise that the most expensive console this gen is mostly owned by people old enough to afford one themselves, and not by kids that have their parents buy them a console? Did we really need a study to find out that the Wii appeals mostly to kids?


Don't mind me. I'm just bitter that low (inaccurate) Nielsen ratings have killed plenty of my favorite shows over the years. Arrested Development is the most recent example, although I have a feeling that the TV show Chuck is next (more the fault of House being moved to Monday to directly compete. Damn you House, you....good show you....)

@phinnvr6

you do realize that people are allowed to own more than one console right? they dont have to sell their 360's to get a PS3. they can just buy both. there is nothing wrong with either console.

@ OP.

and so is your comment!

so i'll be more likely to meet a babe online on ps3 than 360...mental note saved.

Yeah, but look out for BananaBoat, he'll just knock you up and take the children.

You must also like your PSN better for the lack of good games to play on it.
Well enjoy then.

Lack of good games on PSN....really?

@Mr Bunky... What?... Just... What?...

Are you implying that:
a) there are no good PSN games
or
b) there are no good PS3 games

if a: you are a retard. 95% is mostly made of really QUALITY and UNIQUE game.
if b: wake up. it's 2009. Most games are multiplatform. The exclusives are fine on both systems.

Yup, I didn't even bother including Wii in this rant.

Yeah! Totally!

Because your copies of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: World at War and GTA IV are completely different when played on Live versus PSN! Right on!

We get to PAY to access the content on the disc we already paid full price for! That must mean it's inherently better! Right?!

... right?

Playing COD4 on PSN... I don't see where all the "adult" players are... but I do see older people buying the PS3 for a bluray player...that would explain the crappy attatchrate...I bought my dad a ps3 for the sole reason of bluray playing...

This thread just got 'bunky'd' and now you're all doomed. ABANDON ALL YE COMMON SENSE, FLAME ON

Sadly you still get your share of man children in the PSN.No systme is safe from that.

I disagree with this.. I've met just as many little annoying kids while playing games on the PS3, if not more since there's no cost to playing online at all.

Again I'd have to say the mics and voice chat on the 360 makes them a lot more apparant. But you *can* mute people you don't like, or disable voice chat altogether if it's that big a problem.

There are plenty of assholes on any online system, but I personally have always found it fairly easy to tell the average difference between Live and PSN users. Mics or not, asshole make themselves known in numerous ways.

XBL is better. Proof: I was playing CoD WaW a while back and I was in the middle of a tense game. Then all of a sudden I noticed one of my teammates was down and he was asking for help so I went charging head first into 4 people who were seconds away from killing him so I 360 no scoped one guy and headshoted 2 guys with one bullet.
The other guy was so petrified he ran away and disconnected from the game.
Then I noticed another two guys coming straight at me and I've just ran out of ammo so I called for backup and along comes my friend out of nowhere to double no-scope them just in the nick of time.
I then proceeded to revive my downed teammate and win the game. We are now BFF.

The End

You'll ever see that on PSN. Only on 360 :)

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@McWilly:

Mind explaining why?

It just is aright bruv, innit.

McWilly - That was the dumbest thing I've read in a while.

*bows*

Of course McWilly...
Because in PSN, it's impossible to meet DIFFERENT PEOPLE. :-O *sarcasm*

...I've played on both LIVE and PSN. In both, they have idiots, brats, and testosterone heads. And in both, you meet the rare people who make winning all about teamwork.


The difference? Less players on PSN (due to less people owning the PS3... or preferring to have more Gamerscores over Trophys) means less d*ckheads... making it a BIT easier to find the honest folk.
...still hard to find them, but they're there.

Actually it's more like less people with mics means less dickheads. So the PS3 obviously wins there.

Personally I thought McWilly's post was hilarious.

"And then he was like pow-pow and I was like Im gonna shoot u and he was like no way man and then i got a double no scope1!!"

I really thought he was going to pull a "BOOM HEADSHOT!!!!" in there somewhere.

this thread is the reason didnt want articles to be cross - fanboy - site. if it were still x3f, that mature male comment would have been downranked into negative hearts. a second opinion is fine every now and then, but as a 360 owner and fan, its hard to hear the truth, and sometimes, it gets annoying.

You guys are incredibly biased, Just look at poster's profiles and you'll find everyone who posts more at X3F thinks Live is better, everyone who posts more at PS3 Fanboy likes PSN more, and everyone who posts more at Nintendo Fanboy... well really likes Nintendo. Point is both sides have valid arguments because there are benefits & detriments to both online systems. Now I'm going to try to just relate what my experience has been for each, but keep in mind that when you go Online it's really just another game of chance.

In terms of general online play I've found PSN does actually have less annoying players. I've run into less dicks than any console I've probably ever played (online) and I think on the whole it's a very mature community. However Xbox Live definitely has lots of perks (Most of which PSN couldn't even offer because the Live Teams get a large monthly paycheck to keep making content) such as being able to include a large variety of new weekly entertainment, as well as having a very handy library of movies not even including Netflix.

Also what I've found is the Xbox Live community is more... active, inside of the games themselves. The PSN's niche is being able to have a focused class of gamers who enjoy just playing the game itself, and while they interact in-game to some degree, it's almost always in context. But I've found (Just my own experience!) that in Xbox Live a vast majority of the players are incredibly socially interactive, and because of this seem to have a little more... impact on the experience of the game. Now this could mean they are a little bit more chatty, maybe a little bit more annoying, or maybe a little bit more communication between teammates. In short I think PSN gamers tend to focus more on the game and the experience the game itself brings, while Live gamers tend to focus a little more on the community experience.

However keep in mind I've had a COMPLETELY different, unique online experience like every single one of you guys. And I'm definitely a little biased (though I didn't try to be) because of the fact that more of my friends own 360's than PS3's. And since I'm also a very social person perhaps the 360 has been a little more attractive to simply my personality, you'll see most of my joystiq posts have been on X3F because I simply read the PS3Fanboy articles instead of posting (Another example of the community aspect eh?) However to counter my original counter, lol, my local community is extremely well of and as such I have at least 50+ friends with Next Gen Consoles so I feel like I have a good grasp upon my friend's opinions as well. I second the statement about Joystiq Combination = Comment Fail.

uhh @ mynk

the commenters on x3f for the most part all SUCKED. i mean i really love my 360 but there's a difference between expressing affection and just being an unnecessary console bigot.

the site merger has made reading both sites a little cluttery, or what have you, in my opinion, but i think joystiq comments are lulz city and hence one of the reasons i read this site. x3f commenters weren't near as good at lulzing it up.
and i'm pretty sure most of the joystiq hivemind is at the least leftward politically, because on the few political discussions that would arise, reading joystiq comments would make me smile and reading x3f comments would usually just piss me off. a relation between politics and open mindedness? call it casual, call it correlative, whatever. just my two cents.

Dig deeper, Watson.


haven't heard that forever. sorry.

Your logic is flawed..

Disposable income is spent on games. XBL is an expense. Adults (real ones, who know how to budget.. or even what a budget is) limit their expenses to maintain their disposable income. XBL is paid for mostly by mommy and daddy to keep their whiney brats annoying strangers and not themselves.

@ koehler83

Realistically speaking, that is probably the primary reason for the age group distribution among the three consoles.

Although, since we're dealing with statistics, everyone should keep in mind that this is the majority versus the minority. In other words, I'm sure there are 'adults' that pay for XBL.

I think that adults just value their money most and aren't willing to invest in a console that is guaranteed to break. They are least likely to make excuses for billion dollar corporations for screwing their customers.

Yes, I am bitter that I've had 4 360's die on me. And no, I don't give Microsoft credit for the 3 year warranty. They either had to do that or recall the system. Their backs were against the wall.

BAH! You silly kids. You can have your 'next gen' consoles. I want to be buried with my favorite, and objectively BEST console ever:

http://www.gearbits.com/images/intellivision2.gif