世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Research recently conducted their third regular survey into consumer games machines, and the report on japan.internet.com had some interesting data regarding piracy.

Demographics

Between the 25th and 27th of January 2010 1,056 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-base questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.4% in their teens, 17.7% in their twenties, 21.7% in their thirties, 16.2% in the forties, and 28.0% aged fifty or older.

Previously I’ve mentioned that I felt surveys covering P2P piracy had under-reported the piracy issue, so I’m very surprised to see so large a self-reported figure here for console piracy. I’m not really too sure of the best way to interpret the difference.

It’s interesting to compare the results here with those from last November.

Research results

Q1: Which games machine do you have? (Sample size=1,056, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Nintendo DS, DS lite, DSi, etc	438	41.5%
Sony Playstation 2	427	40.4%
Nintendo Wii	291	27.6%
Super Famicon	203	19.2%
Sony Playstation Portable	198	18.8%
Sony Playstation	189	17.9%
Gameboy Advance	171	16.2%
Gameboy, Color, Pocket, etc	143	13.5%
Sony Playstation 3	135	12.8%
Famicon	116	11.0%
Nintendo 64	112	10.6%
Nintendo Gamecube	102	9.7%
Sega Saturn	45	4.3%
Xbox 360	36	3.4%
Dreamcast	33	3.1%
Wonder Swan	27	2.6%
PC Engine	18	1.7%
Xbox	9	0.9%
Sega Megadrive	9	0.9%
Neo Geo	3	0.3%
PSPgo	2	0.2%
Neo Geo Pocket	1	0.1%
Other	13	1.2%
Don’t have any games machines	348	33.0%

Compared with the previous survey before Christmas and the New Year, Wii grew a little and the PS3 just about doubled its market share, due in part, no doubt, to the release of New Super Mario Brothers on the Wii and Final Fantasy XIII on the PS3.

Next, the 477 people who played on portable games machines were asked the following:

Q2: Where do you play with your portable games machines? (Sample size=477, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
At home	450	94.3%
On trains, other transport	135	28.3%
When outside	107	22.4%
At work, school	43	9.0%
At cafe, restaurant	42	8.8%
At somewhere with a WiFi access point	24	5.0%
At hospital, library, other facilities	20	4.2%
At a shop, etc, where other portable game players congregate	10	2.1%

Q3: Have you ever played with illegally-downloaded games or on a game backup device? (Sample size=477, multiple answer)

Yes, currently do	15.5%
Yes, used to	7.1%
No, never	77.4%