Japan welcomes PS3, shuns Xbox 360

*I'd care more if it was 1000 people between 15 and 35, as they're the only people likely to see any of them in the next year. With prices expected to be between £2-400, I doubt many outside the age bracket would even stand a chance.

Market research is always crap.

Personally? 360 depends on price, Rev depends on games, PS3 depends on whether they force me with a gun or not. The PS was not my taste, the PS2 lost my support years back, and the Xbox is still happily sat under my telly. I've had 2 gamecubes, because animal crossing won me back.

So if 360 is expensive and there are only a few new games for Rev you won't get a next-gen console at all??

............... Lets hope it doesnt have the same fate as teh GC.

*1000 people between 10 and 59 is hardly a good sample.

The high Playstation percentage is hardly surprising in that regard either; the age range has such extremes that the most known brand is likely to win, and as such a massive margin like that is to be expected.

I'd care more if it was 1000 people between 15 and 35, as they're the only people likely to see any of them in the next year.

Market research is always crap.

Personally? 360 depends on price, Rev depends on games, PS3 depends on whether they force me with a gun or not.

There strategy is much different then Sony's which is copy as much of the competitions strategy and products as possible while still having people convinced that what they are doing is cool and original.

On the other hand you have Microsoft's strategy which is make their console such a good deal right now with all the coolest games that no one can pass it up

That's your choice, but there's no need to deride (and analyse poorly) the opinions of 1000 Japanese people you don't know just because they don't agree with you. You buy what you like, and they'll buy what they like.

So you're saying that Sony's strategy with PS1 was to emulate Sega and it's Saturn campaign?

No, I don't think so.

And the PS2? That was based on the Dreamcast's fedit strategy?

Really, I think this gen is the first time Sony have had a competitor who's strategy has been worthy of taking note.



See, I don't think it's such as great deal, and I don't think Xbox has all the coolest games. So it's clear someone can pass it up.

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To Pistol-Pat and Config, I think I may be able to shed some light on what each of you meant to each other. When Pistol first said about Playstation copying strategy it could easily be said that in fact playstation was copying saturn just because of the disc drive. That doesn't really make the point relevent though. Something I do think that was copied partially was the eyetoy thing. It was merely the same thing as a gameboy camera for a console at first but they did in fact make it something more. Which proves both points equally I feel. And the second point you were trying to make Pistol-Pat is that the companies strategies seemed correct to you which config then rebuttled that it wasn't for him. There is and was no need to call him and idiot then say that it was all based on your opinion so I think you both kind of cleared that one up yourself.

Now onto my own opinion, 1000 people is in no spectrum a good sample. I do not care if there are some professional surveys that take from that or a smaller sample size. I've done surveys for a class that needed a sample size of atleast 1000 people, and that was still when I was in high school. I've done three already with sample sizes of 2000 or more people for classes in college. So I see no real problem with finding more people then that, and I must say that after being to Japan, and to the Tokyo electronic district it would be very easy to get more people. Now the results I see no problem with because the Japanese really do like to stick with what they know and no matter what if you stick two japansese companies against one american company you'll get similar results.