72% of US next-gen pre-order customers chose PS5
A study from market research company VGM indicated that US players who have pre-ordered a next-gen console have predomi…
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GameIndustry.Biz: PS5 accounts for 72% of US next-gen pre-orders
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- The study was conducted from September 23 to 25, 2020, using a sample of 511 US-based respondents, representative of the US general gaming population.
- Among them, 15% said they managed to successfully pre-order a next generation console. Within this group, 72% went for the disc edition of the PS5, 30% went for the Xbox Series X, 10% for the PS5 digital edition and 8% for the Xbox Series S.
Wow, so few managed to get one? lol
- Among them, 15% said they managed to successfully pre-order a next generation console. Within this group, 72% went for the disc edition of the PS5, 30% went for the Xbox Series X, 10% for the PS5 digital edition and 8% for the Xbox Series S.
Wow, so few managed to get one? lol
This. With both consoles being sold out currently, this only means that Sony made more than twice as many consoles available for pre-order in the US as Microsoft did.
Like, while i can certainly see actual difference in demand / thirst being close to these figures, this is simply not a conclusion we have any underlying facts for yet.
I have no doubts if they sampled a large subsection of people you'd more than likely get similar results but this made me chuckle lol...
Yep and the 72% number is misleading, because that's the number of 15% which could get a console. And as you said the percentage isn't 100% when you add up 72% disk PS5, 30% Xbox Series X and so on.
Maybe some were ordering multiple consoles eg a PS5 and one of the Xboxes
The sample can still be representative with 511 people, just surprised at the 15% number. Seems really low.
Ignoring the PS5 v Xbox, I wonder if those numbers are at all representative of people who tried to preorder vs. those that were successful.
Yeah. I also think 511 is a pretty small sample size, but I don't know enough about statistics and how much you need for a good sample to really comment on that.
Read the article and you will be able to put the number into context.
The breakdown with respect to games is Basically a slap in the faces of everyone who said cross gen games won't encourage launch purchases. Miles and Halo Infinite - both crossgen - are still the main draws for both next gen consoles.
months spent on Era arguing about this and the market has spoken that this argument was largely inconsequential.
Still weird that FFXVI that's a long way off generates much more interest than Demons Souls.
months spent on Era arguing about this and the market has spoken that this argument was largely inconsequential.
Still weird that FFXVI that's a long way off generates much more interest than Demons Souls.
The entire article emplies that each individual only pre ordered one console.
Series S has failed to sell out in the UK for what it's worth.
I think it is as you say. People ordering multiple consoles. That is one of the most terrible ways to poll numbers though. Should have made that its own group.
Yeah this is such a small sample lol.
Also even if these numbers are true it would simply indicate how many consoles each company made available for pre-order, since the systems are sold out everywhere.
I feel like there will be a lot of these posts. Do people not understand sample size?
45% tried to though, which seems high for early adopters.
We're only a month out from hard numbers either way.
It absolutely is not. With a 5% margin of error you could probably sample under 400 and get an accurate number.
This happens every thread, so here you go: 511 is not enormous but it's plenty to get a decent picture statistically speaking, if it's representative. The problem is usually methodological - e.g. that samples are not usually representative unless they've taken extreme care to avoid sampling problems.
Simply blowing up the sample to 50,000 people wouldn't necessarily get you a more accurate picture unless the exact same care was taken to make sure it was a good sample to begin with.
I mean what were we expecting? People to run and buy an Xbox because MS acquired studios?
The truth is only one of them has a new Spider-Man coming out this fall. And it's not a MS console.
The truth is only one of them has a new Spider-Man coming out this fall. And it's not a MS console.
It's even 10 bucks off on amazon.de :( Though in germany ps4/xbox one was like 10:1
Both consoles were sold out in 24h anyway so idk what's the point of these stats at all
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