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Gamers Don't Know Their Own Consoles

Posted by Zonk on from the you-paid-up-now-pay-attention dept.

deadmantyping writes "Ars Technica reports on a survey of 6,260 responses which indicates that only 40 percent of PS3 owners knew that their console included Bluray. Apparently a large portion of gamers aren't aware of the non-gaming capabilities of their systems. Ars speculates that this might help explain Nintendo's apparent dominance in the console market since their introduction of the Wii."

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  1. Re:Wii-tards by BarneyL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Correction: Most people who buy a Wii don't care what the differences in the hardware specs are between the systems. They only look at the gameplay.

  2. Re:Of course not by chromatic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I know a ton of people (including myself) who didn't buy a stand-alone DVD player because the PS2 would have one. I'm *SURE* it's responsible for a growth of DVD sales.

    I'm not certain that being *SURE* is a good substitute for actual statistics.

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