Nielsen and EEDAR join forces to provide 'unprecedented' game tracking data

YOU TWO SHUT YOUR DATAHOLES

IM NUMBER 1!!!

Actually playing games instead of trolling the Joystiq comments, perhaps?

That is true...I haven't seen a Wiibot in a while.

Curious...I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

No that was just me, ran out of butter while making dinner, was a little upset.

@Spyder

I hate to start this, so I'm just going to say it and leave. But when I kept telling you a lot of veterans weren't posting anymore because of how bad you and the other Sony people were making it, I wasn't bullshitting. I talk to a lot of the nintendo fanboys who used to roam here (most of them I used to battle on here back in the day) and you guys have basically driven them away. They read the articles still, but they rarely post.

I'm not looking to start a fight, just explaining.

Oh, no...why is it always on my posts?

I would say that fanboys of all consoles have been the problem. When you've got 360 people screaming 'PS3 HAZ NO GAM3Z!" and PS3 people shouting "RROD!" and the Wii guy bashing everyone with 'WE'RE NUMBER ONE!!!!11!", it tends to get annoying.

Things are calmer now.

But the next-gen is upon us. The calm before the storm, perhaps?

Calling Supesmashbrosfan94 - YOUR SERVICES ARE NEEDED!!
Please, pull another "hilarious prank" on those PS3 "idiots with limited taste."

No, in all honesty us Wii fanboys have been silent recently because even we believe Nintendo has let us down. So few good games for such a long time - like being a PS3 owner 2 years ago.
And we've been playing our DSes. That's had a great line up recently, best of all consoles IMO.

Most Wii fanboys were created in defense against PS3 and 360 fanboys who would attack the Wii with relentless abandon.
Unlike the other fanboys, Wii fanboys actually GOT TIRED of fighting and went back to just playing games - learning that they could ignore the fanboys.

Other Wii fanboys created merely from their own love of Nintendo (or new love to Nintendo if they're young), just couldn't handle the constant barrage of "shovelware!!!!" comments - because they knew there was a crapload of shovelware and too few good games coming out to forgive all the shovelware.
For every good game, there would be 10 other shovelware games to bury it.

Some switched sides for "losing faith" (which was usually caused for their idiotic high hopes in something that was never promised).

And the ones of the casual crowd found out this site was full of pissy little twats that they just stopped coming here and went somewhere else to say how much they had fun with their kids and friends on a Wii game.


Also... A LOT left after "Nintendo Wii Fanboy" turned just into Joystiq Nintendo.

"So few good games for such a long time"

COMPLETELY depends on your taste on games.
I'm actually far behind on my Wii games and need to catch up a good deal.

Obviously the number of good games aren't coming out in the number and speed as 360 and PS3 consoles are, but they are coming out often enough to keep me occupied until the next comes out. The Wii is the system I'm furthest behind compared to the other systems I own. But that's my tastes.

@Soshi
So true!
Why did they merge the fanboy sites!?
The quality and sense of community dropped off so much after they did that I bailed to Nintendolife (which actually benefited from merging WiiWare World and VC-Reviews). But eventually I left there, and here I am.
Actually, if anyone wants a site like NIntendoWiiFanboy was, then may I recommend Tinycartridge.com. It's not Wii-centric, but it's just like the good ol' days before the merge...

That;s because all wii fanboys realized wii sucks.

Basically, i'm the last of the old guard of Nintendo fanboys, the last either to not become disillusioned or just quit posting as much.

Yeah 1200 seems like a terrible sample size for this sort of thing especially considering that a lot of people wont do online surveys which messes up the data even more.

http://skepticblog.org/2009/07/09/fun-with-manga/

Golden boy is what you're thinking off, though it looks nothing like the pic.

1200 is too small.

It should be...

*sunglasses*

OVER 9000!

The image gives away the source of the picture.

Protip: it's the text that begins with "source"

I saw that, yes. Protip - I said "reminds me of". Thanks, Emophia, that's exactly it :P

Protip: My mistake, but when you begin your post with "What show is that?" it kind of gives the impression that you haven't read the source written on it. Given that you just read the answer yourself.

I'm now confused as to exactly what show you were asking about, since you already knew where the image came from.

Yeah my bad, I guess that was a little unclear. I think moreso the scene reminded me of the show which I couldn't quite remember. So apparently it was Golden Boy, had stuck in my memory because f how awful and weird it was.

I agree. 1,200 is way too small, given the vast userbase sizes even in America alone. That would be too small even if they were detailing just one console base, instead of all 5

When I was at Fry's Electronics last month, I actually saw a book called The Manga Guide To Databases, which is what I am studying. Absolutely fucking amazing that today's society is so ADHD that they need anime and manga characters to keep them focused. I've also seen manga versions of Shakespeare classics, that's just going a bit too crazy for me.

"Absolutely fucking amazing that today's society is so ADHD that they need anime and manga characters to keep them focused."

They've had these kinds of guides for quite some time.
It's just that they're more recent in shores other than Japan.

The first one I ever saw here was a manga's guide to html I believe.

Whatever, that stuff's lame...

No joke. Why don't they just use the data from my Xbox Live profile (or something similar on other systems). These consoles connect to the internet. It should be elementary to see what games ALL people are playing.

Nielsen was criticized for years with their low samples for television ratings--when they equipped 5000 homes with the meters.

Plus, I'm skeptical of surveys, especially when it comes to recording habits rather than opinions. I've done user studies for work and found that people's account of their actions is off from what is observed and recorded.

And then there's the fanboy mentality.