世論 What Japan Thinks

The seventh regular survey into consumer games machines by goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com also revealed that Nintendo’s machines are still the most popular in Japan.

Demographics

Between the 6th and 8th of January 2011 1,093 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.8% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16/3% in their forties, and 27.5% aged fifty or older.

As there’s nothing I can graph in this survey, instead here’s the first match on YouTube for Nintendo:

The survey also noted that in the US the various Nintendo DSs had sold about 47 million, and the Wii around 34 million.

I’ve not seen the Nintendo 3DS in real life, but the Sharp LYNX mobile phone uses similar technology to do its 3D, and it does work rather well, although I’m not sure how trying to use 3D in a moving train will be, although I suspect that at least I would get motion sickness from it; One Seg television is enough eye (and stomach) strain for me.

Research results

From the original sample, 683 people, or 62.5%, had games machines. They were asked the following.

Q1: What games machines do you have? (Sample size=683, multiple choice)

Nintendo DS, DS Lite, DSi, DSiLL, etc (to SQ)	62.2%
Playstation 2	54.0%
Wii	45.2%
Playstation Portable	29.6%
Super Famicon	26.4%
Playstation 3	24.2%
Playstation (original)	22.8%
Gameboy Advance	21.1%
Nintendo 64	18.3%
Gameboy (including Colour, Pocket, etc)	17.3%
Nintendo Gamecube	13.8%
Famicon	13.6%
Dreamcast	4.8%
Xbox360	4.0%
Xbox	1.5%
PSPgo	0.9%
Other	6.4%

Q1SQ: Why do you have a Nintendo DS? (Sample size=425, multiple choice)

Because games I want to play are exclusive to the DS	68.5%
Because everyone’s talking about it	34.6%
Because my friends, family have one and I wanted my own	22.4%
Because I liked the functions	21.5%
It’s a family shared device	17.2%
Because games I want to play are coming out on the DS	12.0%
It was a present	9.4%
Because I’m a Nintendo fan	4.9%
Because it caught my eye in the shap	3.3%
No particular reason	2.1%

Q2: What games machines do you currently play with? (Sample size=683, multiple choice)

Nintendo DS, DS Lite, DSi, DSiLL, etc	45.5%
Wii	31.2%
Playstation 2	23.4%
Playstation Portable	20.5%
Playstation 3	18.0%
Super Famicon	4.2%
Playstation (original)	3.4%
Nintendo Gamecube	2.6%
Xbox360	2.5%
Nintendo 64	2.3%
Gameboy Advance	1.9%
Gameboy (including Colour, Pocket, etc)	1.6%
Famicon	1.5%
PSPgo	0.6%
Xbox	0.3%
Dreamcast	0.3%
Other	1.9%
None	16.4%