What would you call a real statistic?

Besides, when I said numbers talk I was referring to the sales.

What would you call a real statistic?

Besides, when I said numbers talk I was referring to the sales.

This article is slightly misleading, though. The author implies that because the Wii has almost caught up to the 360 means that it MUST have higher quality games. I tend to disagree with that. Sales doesn’t measure equity or quality.

I don’t really want to debate about that though, as it is somewhat subjective.

This article is slightly misleading, though. The author implies that because the Wii has almost caught up to the 360 means that it MUST have higher quality games. I tend to disagree with that. Sales doesn’t measure equity or quality.

I don’t really want to debate about that though, as it is somewhat subjective.

0-14 years: 27.4% (male 931,551,498/female 875,646,416)
15-64 years: 65.1% (male 2,174,605,518/female 2,124,494,703)
65 years and over: 7.5% (male 217,451,123/female 278,474,917) (2007 est.)

Literacy affects the ability to play games…

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 82%
male: 87%
female: 77%
note: over two-thirds of the world’s 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Egypt); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab states, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 est.)

Ok, so we cut down that percentage…

Approximately….

0-14 years: (male 931,551,498/female 875,646,416)
15-64 years: (male 1,891,906,800/female 1,635,860,921)

I didn’t touch the 0-14 catergory yet…

So, we know for a fact that there are NOT billions of gamers in the world… there are many countries that don’t even have gaming consoles. Let us cut that measure down to 1/10

0-14 years: (male 93,155,149/female 87,564,641)
15-64 years: (male 189,190,680/female 163,586,092)

Ok, we still have hundreds of millions of people here…

Females are less likely to play games. Let us imagine that only 1/20 of all females (15-20)in that figure are likely to play a game.

Let us also cut the 0-14 range down to 1/20 on account of people too young to play.

Let us cut males (15-64) down to 1/10

0-14 years: (male 4,657,757/female 4,378,232)
15-64 years: (male 18,919,068/female 8,179,304)

Starting to look more realistic. Let us add this figure all into one ball…

We have 36,134,361 potential gamers here.

Now, for Nintendo to DOUBLE 360′s sales, which would continue to grow along with the Wii (though slower), they would eventually have to get near 40,000,000 sales.

Sure, reaching into the non-gamer catergory makes this possible, but not reaching that goal means nothing. They are not required to win people over that are not gamers in the first place.

With that, I take my leave.

—SirVenom—

0-14 years: 27.4% (male 931,551,498/female 875,646,416)
15-64 years: 65.1% (male 2,174,605,518/female 2,124,494,703)
65 years and over: 7.5% (male 217,451,123/female 278,474,917) (2007 est.)

Literacy affects the ability to play games…

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 82%
male: 87%
female: 77%
note: over two-thirds of the world’s 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Egypt); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab states, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 est.)

Ok, so we cut down that percentage…

Approximately….

0-14 years: (male 931,551,498/female 875,646,416)
15-64 years: (male 1,891,906,800/female 1,635,860,921)

I didn’t touch the 0-14 catergory yet…

So, we know for a fact that there are NOT billions of gamers in the world… there are many countries that don’t even have gaming consoles. Let us cut that measure down to 1/10

0-14 years: (male 93,155,149/female 87,564,641)
15-64 years: (male 189,190,680/female 163,586,092)

Ok, we still have hundreds of millions of people here…

Females are less likely to play games. Let us imagine that only 1/20 of all females (15-20)in that figure are likely to play a game.

Let us also cut the 0-14 range down to 1/20 on account of people too young to play.

Let us cut males (15-64) down to 1/10

0-14 years: (male 4,657,757/female 4,378,232)
15-64 years: (male 18,919,068/female 8,179,304)

Starting to look more realistic. Let us add this figure all into one ball…

We have 36,134,361 potential gamers here.

Now, for Nintendo to DOUBLE 360′s sales, which would continue to grow along with the Wii (though slower), they would eventually have to get near 40,000,000 sales.

Sure, reaching into the non-gamer catergory makes this possible, but not reaching that goal means nothing. They are not required to win people over that are not gamers in the first place.

With that, I take my leave.

—SirVenom—

The 360 isn’t all about graphics, by the way. It has some of the highest rated games of this generation… And most of them aren’t sequels, and (even better) there’s still plenty to come.

I own a Wii (which is why I frequent this site) and I can’t wait for it’s good games to come out. But I mean so far, most of the games aren’t critically appraised or appeasing to me personally.

The 360 isn’t all about graphics, by the way. It has some of the highest rated games of this generation… And most of them aren’t sequels, and (even better) there’s still plenty to come.

I own a Wii (which is why I frequent this site) and I can’t wait for it’s good games to come out. But I mean so far, most of the games aren’t critically appraised or appeasing to me personally.

If you want to look at it like that, then the 360′s been out for a year longer than the Wii, and the Wii has been out for less than a year.

If they were sold simultaneously, my bet would be that the Wii’d have sold more than 2x as many consoles as the 360.