PlayStation 2 remains most-played console over next-gens
Through Nielsen Media Research‘s TV monitoring technology, the same technology that tracks TV ratings, some rather interesting bits of info have surfaced from their findings.
They can track a lot of different types of data coming from your TV. For example, their press release states that “Wii households are upscale. They are more likely to earn more than $100,000 income per year.”
Which makes some people question as to why that’s so, since the Wii is famous for being the cheapest of the next-gen consoles. Data like that would be very useful for those in the gaming industry.
Other data they have collected should bring perspective to the gaming industry at large. For example, with the console wars raging on, it’s very interesting to find out that the PlayStation 2 remains the most frequently played console out there, and the original Xbox is the second. Here’s a more accurate account of the data, representing the percentage of total playing time per console:
Looking at it from another point of view, Nielsen also found that the Xbox 360 had the most number of sessions a day, averaging at 2.21 sessions. The PS3 had the least, with an average of 1.88 sessions. People tend to play the PS3 longer, however. The average number of minutes people sit down and play the PS3 is 83 minutes. The PS2 and Xbox come in second place for longest hours, averaging at 62 minutes a session.
Other interesting things to note: World of Warcraft is the most popular PC game this June, constituting 18% of all PC gaming, next is Halo: Combat Evolved (3.6%), and in third place is The Sims (3.3%).
Through Nielsen Media Research‘s TV monitoring technology, the same technology that tracks TV ratings, some rather interesting bits of info have surfaced from their findings.
They can track a lot of different types of data coming from your TV. For example, their press release states that “Wii households are upscale. They are more likely to earn more than $100,000 income per year.”
Which makes some people question as to why that’s so, since the Wii is famous for being the cheapest of the next-gen consoles. Data like that would be very useful for those in the gaming industry.
Other data they have collected should bring perspective to the gaming industry at large. For example, with the console wars raging on, it’s very interesting to find out that the PlayStation 2 remains the most frequently played console out there, and the original Xbox is the second. Here’s a more accurate account of the data, representing the percentage of total playing time per console:
Looking at it from another point of view, Nielsen also found that the Xbox 360 had the most number of sessions a day, averaging at 2.21 sessions. The PS3 had the least, with an average of 1.88 sessions. People tend to play the PS3 longer, however. The average number of minutes people sit down and play the PS3 is 83 minutes. The PS2 and Xbox come in second place for longest hours, averaging at 62 minutes a session.
Other interesting things to note: World of Warcraft is the most popular PC game this June, constituting 18% of all PC gaming, next is Halo: Combat Evolved (3.6%), and in third place is The Sims (3.3%).
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