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Post by wanderingshadow on May 2, 2006 13:40:30 GMT -5
www.siliconera.com/2006/05/01/what-your-next-generation-system-preference-says-about-you/According to this article, Nintendo fans most enjoy listening to Gorillaz and like to watch Smallville. We're less likely than Sony and Microsoft fans, but more likely than the mainstream to have TiVo and to have seen a movie in the last month. We're more likely than the mainstream and Sony fans to own an iPod, but less likely than Microsoft fans. Undecided fans have more DVDs than any of the mainstream. I especially love the irony of Microsoft fans being most likely to own an Apple product.
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Post by mrmolecule on May 2, 2006 16:42:47 GMT -5
My "demographic" is geek...not nerd. I know nerds...goths...punks...etc.
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Post by Fryguy64 on May 2, 2006 17:30:19 GMT -5
OH MY GOD! People are likely to watch three popular TV shows, own a popular MP3 player and listen to some of the most popular bands ever!?
GOOD GRIEF!!!
Meaningless statistics, as most statistics are. I'm sure if you did the same poll with any other product you would get the same jumbled responses.
And PSP is the overall favourite? How many people out there want one but don't have one? Last I checked, DS was still storming the charts worldwide.
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Post by Flip on May 3, 2006 16:01:36 GMT -5
PSP is cool, but who actually owns one? No less, buys games? Everybody who has one pirates the hell out of it.
It's a pretty useless poll, other than proving a few stereotypes. Nintendo fans are the geeks, XBox fans are more extreme, and Playstation fans are normal Joes. Ho-hum. Interesting that the undecideds synch with Ninty pretty well, though.
On an aside, does it bug anyone else that vintage Nintendo is now chic, and that's it part of the whole emo/punk/Hot Topic movement? It bothers the crap outta me that I have to share my hobby (and childhood fantasies) with some shady 12 year old who's clinging onto something he doesn't remember.
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Post by Smashchu on May 3, 2006 18:21:43 GMT -5
On an aside, does it bug anyone else that vintage Nintendo is now chic, and that's it part of the whole emo/punk/Hot Topic movement? It bothers the crap outta me that I have to share my hobby (and childhood fantasies) with some shady 12 year old who's clinging onto something he doesn't remember. Dont worry. You still get to share your favorite games with people like us.
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Post by Flip on May 3, 2006 21:22:16 GMT -5
That's true wow, nobody's given me that kinda response before... what a load of my back, honest
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Post by Fryguy64 on May 4, 2006 3:46:53 GMT -5
If we want Nintendo to be mainstream, we have to accept that people who don't entirely understand it will wear it. Like how Atari t-shirts were all the rage amongst people my age for a while... despite the fact Atari had killed the videogame industry dead before my third birthday.
NES Chic is great. If I walk down the street and see other people wearing Nintendo branded clothing... even amongst the age group that wasn't born when shooting at ducks was top entertainment... then I know that Nintendo's name is out there.
Popularity leads to adoption by people who think it's cool. It's just the way of the world. It annoys me greatly when this happens with things that shouldn't be commercialised (why can you buy fake rock concert bracelets in fashion shops!? Get a real f'ing bracelet!) but movies and videogames are inherently commercialised already - so I say let the merchandise roll!
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