The Giant Giantbomb Console survey: the results.

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#1  Edited By oldschool

A while back I did a BIG survey on what consoles you have: 
The GIANT Giantbomb console survey. Tell us what you have.     
 
Sorry for my tardiness, but I just remembered that I forgot about it and, a little late, here are the results. 
 
There were 653 members that responded, so it is a good sample and probably fairly representative of reality.  Again, sorry for no PC, because that is a completely different beast. 

Console exclusivity:

  • 1 in 100 members have just a Wii. 
  • 1 in 25 members have just a PS3. 
  • 1 in 10 members have just a 360. 
 

Who has what: 

  • 52% of you have a Wii. 
  • 80.6% of you have a 360. 
  • 57.8% of you have a PS3. 
  • 56.4% of you have a DS. 
  • 41.3% of you have a PSP. 
 

Most popular combination of consoles: 

  1. 17.0% of you have everything - Wii, 360, PS3, DS & PSP. 
  2. 10.0% of you have a 360 only. 
  3. 6.7% of you have a Wii, 360 and DS. 
  4. 6.0% of you have a 360 and DS. 
  5. 5.8% of you have a Wii, 360, PS3 & DS. 
 
So there you have it.  4 out of every 5 members has a 360.  No surprise there.  One in every 2 of you has a Wii, so that means the majority of the membership is a Wii owner, so I call for more respect for the Wii, but you expect that from me  ^_^    No surprise that the PSP gets the least love, but it is still a decent number at 2 in every 5 of you. 
 
Do the numbers surprise you considering what kind of membership you see around here?
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#2  Edited By Red12b

Wicked good work mate cheers :)

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#3  Edited By Red12b

No surprises, Xbox is the prominent console, the price of the PS3 is a major reason why it's not as established, plus, it was late on the game, so people already had an Xbox,  
For the Wii, I am not surprised, by the amount of shit it gets piled on it by users and staff alike, it's fairly known that people don't register the massive seller it is. 

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#4  Edited By Fallen189

Which one are you Oldschool? I'm in the 6.7% of Wii60+DS, represent!

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#5  Edited By Red12b
@Fallen189: I think it's WII DS Xbox
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#6  Edited By crystalskull2

i envy the 17% who has all.

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#7  Edited By get2sammyb

Wow, that's actually really fascinating. Cool work oldschool.

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#8  Edited By Red12b
@crystalskull2 said:
" i envy the 17% who has all. "
me 2 :(
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#9  Edited By Jost1

I have a Wii but that doesn't mean I don't think it's a crappy deal compared to either the 360 or PS3 :)

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#10  Edited By Daryl
@crystalskull2 said:
" i envy the 17% who has all. "
*teabags*
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#11  Edited By oldschool
@Fallen189 said:
" Which one are you Oldschool? I'm in the 6.7% of Wii60+DS, represent! "
I was AE: Wii, 360, DS & PSP which is 4.9% of us.
 
It isn't that I can't afford all, I certainly can as I have 2 Wii and 5 DS, plus 2 PSP, but the PS3 hasn't reached my price point yet.  It started at $1000 (Red12b can relate to that as it was even more in NZ$), dropped to $700 and last time down to $500.  My entry point is $400, same as I paid for the Wii and 360.  It is just an arbitrary number for me, even though I think the PS3 is much better quality than the 360.
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#12  Edited By Jost1

Proud (or shameful) member of the "owns all" category

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#13  Edited By Jost1

To be PERFECTLY honest I regret buying the Wii and PSP because the Wii doesn't give me the kind of games I want and the PSP doesn't have games period ;)

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#14  Edited By jacksukeru

My combination didn't make the list, hurray!

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#15  Edited By Fallen189
@oldschool said:
" @Fallen189 said:
" Which one are you Oldschool? I'm in the 6.7% of Wii60+DS, represent! "
I was AE: Wii, 360, DS & PSP which is 4.9% of us. It isn't that I can't afford all, I certainly can as I have 2 Wii and 5 DS, plus 2 PSP, but the PS3 hasn't reached my price point yet.  It started at $1000 (Red12b can relate to that as it was even more in NZ$), dropped to $700 and last time down to $500.  My entry point is $400, same as I paid for the Wii and 360.  It is just an arbitrary number for me, even though I think the PS3 is much better quality than the 360. "
Oh wait, I am also AE, I forgot about that PSP :)
I'm with you really, I could afford a PS3, but I already have an Xbox so what's the point? They do the same thing for the most part. I only got a 360 at the time because I knew a few guys who had them!
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#16  Edited By penguindust

Interesting results.  Not at all representative of North America or the world, but you have to expect different results from an enthusiast site.  Hell, I think if you took a random sampling of people, the "Most Popular Combination of Consoles" category would be lead by single-console owners (yes, oldschool and we know that console would be a Wii ;-p) and not "I own everything".  The numbers for Wii, PS3 and DS ownership are pretty close.  I think there is a nice amount of PS3 coverage on the site, but there should be more Wii and definitely more DS stuff.  I remember Jeff saying that they only recently got the tools needed to video capture off the DS, so here's hoping there will be more DS Quick Looks in the future.

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#17  Edited By oldschool
@josty81 said:
" To be PERFECTLY honest I regret buying the Wii and PSP because the Wii doesn't give me the kind of games I want and the PSP doesn't have games period ;) "
Even though I have 40 games on the PSP, seriously, it is the worst console I have ever owned.  I just can't get into it.  Most of the games are ports or cut-down versions of PS2 games and it controls terribly.  The system just feels bad in your hands.  I really wanted to like it and I still buy games thinking I might finally "get" it, (I just got Jeanne D'Arc and that didn't do it), but it never happens.  Even my kids never use it and that is a bad sign. 
 
My 360 gets very little play time, but it just doesn't have the games I enjoy en masse, so it isn't a criticism of the console per se, but the Wii gets most of the action on the big screen.  As you said, it comes dome to what you want as an individual.
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#18  Edited By JJWeatherman

Cool. Seems pretty accurate.

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#19  Edited By JonathanMoore

Good work. I have a Wii 360 and DS but I aint really using any of them at this present time.

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#20  Edited By rallier

Heh the number of people who own a Wii is quite surprising seeing how it is a rather small group of people who discuss its games here.

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#21  Edited By Joker_777
@Fallen189: same here!
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#22  Edited By oldschool
@Rallier said:
" Heh the number of people who own a Wii is quite surprising seeing how it is a rather small group of people who discuss its games here. "
They want to seem cool, so they don't openly admit it  (^_^)
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#23  Edited By Leviticus128
@oldschool said:
  4 out of every 5 members has a 360.  No surprise there.  One in every 2 of you has a Wii, so that means the majority of the membership is a Wii owner, so I call for more respect for the Wii, but you expect that from me
did this dude like seriously fail maths, 4/5th is more than 1/2 so that majority is the 360.
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#24  Edited By mracoon

Nice work. It's cool to see what people have and it's no surprise that 360 comes out on top.

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#25  Edited By oldschool
@leviticus128 said:

" @oldschool said:

  4 out of every 5 members has a 360.  No surprise there.  One in every 2 of you has a Wii, so that means the majority of the membership is a Wii owner, so I call for more respect for the Wii, but you expect that from me

did this dude like seriously fail maths, 4/5th is more than 1/2 so that majority is the 360. "
Dude, you like, seriously, didn't read it properly: 
 One in every 2 of you has a Wii, so that means the majority of the membership is a Wii owner
 One in every 2 of you has a Wii, so that means the majority of the membership IS a Wii owner.  It means that the majority of the members here HAVE a Wii (IS a Wii owner), not that the Wii is the majority ownership overall.

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#26  Edited By Marzy

We own them all, apart from a PSP (which I'm not interested in).

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#27  Edited By Red12b
@oldschool said:
" @Fallen189 said:
" Which one are you Oldschool? I'm in the 6.7% of Wii60+DS, represent! "
I was AE: Wii, 360, DS & PSP which is 4.9% of us. It isn't that I can't afford all, I certainly can as I have 2 Wii and 5 DS, plus 2 PSP, but the PS3 hasn't reached my price point yet.  It started at $1000 (Red12b can relate to that as it was even more in NZ$), dropped to $700 and last time down to $500.  My entry point is $400, same as I paid for the Wii and 360.  It is just an arbitrary number for me, even though I think the PS3 is much better quality than the 360. "
$1'200 on release, *Shakes head in disgust* 
 
I bought it with Assassins Creed, 40 Gig model, love it.  
 
I had an Xbox it Red Ringed outside of warranty, Microsoft denied to fix it, My PS3 YLOD'd and it was 4 or 5 months out of Warranty and Sony replaced it and let me keep the HDD, They earned a customer that day. 
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#28  Edited By sopranosfan

I own them all except the PSP and I used to own that.

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#29  Edited By weltal

Nice work! Too bad I missed the thread or I would'a throw myself in with the rest of the 17%.

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#30  Edited By ZenaxPure
@oldschool said:
 The system just feels bad in your hands. "
Yes! God holding that thing is such a pain on the hands, it is completely flat, no grip. wtf Sony? 
 
Anyhow, interesting results, PS3 ownership is much higher than if I just had to take a random guess at it. Quite surprising.
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#31  Edited By CharleyTony

I got one of each company 
 
360 ps3 and ds
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Nice work.
 
I'm in the 360/DS/Wii group. Not too fussed about a PSP but I'd really like a PS3 someday.

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#33  Edited By ch13696

I'm actually impressed with your number calculations. 

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Awesome that you did this oldschool, really interesting  
I was in the PS3, Wii & DS category, do you know how much that got ?

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#35  Edited By Turambar

The rather low percentage of people with a DS is rather surprising.

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#36  Edited By ArbitraryWater

Nice work oldschool. I'm sure that while these statistics don't represent the world or any specific territory, they do represent the kind of people Giant Bomb caters to.

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#37  Edited By Dalai

I'm so cool and hip being in the super minority. 
 
I'm in that Wii only category, believe it or not. Of course if you threw in the PC, then things change. 
 
Nice work!

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#38  Edited By Milkman

Got everything except a PSP. So, yeah, I got everything.

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#39  Edited By torus

Surveys like these always come with a certain amount of bias, simply because the kind of person who replies to a poll on the forum is not necessarily the same as the larger Giantbomb userbase.

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#40  Edited By EVO

Great work, but there's just one thing:
 

" One in every 2 of you has a Wii, so that means the majority of the membership is a Wii owner, so I call for more respect for the Wii "
 
Just cause you own a Wii, doesn't mean you gotta respect it. Heck, to a degree you've disrespected the PSP in this very thread.
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#41  Edited By oldschool
@addictedtopinescent said:
" Awesome that you did this oldschool, really interesting I was in the PS3, Wii & DS category, do you know how much that got ? "
The numbers are altered slightly as about 20 new votes have been added, but it runs at about 1.8% 
 
@Turambar said:
" The rather low percentage of people with a DS is rather surprising. "
It is in line with with the PS3 and Wii numbers, but yeah, considering 120+ million out there ....... but a lot of them are kids and old people (old people NOT like me), who wouldn't be on a site like this, or any site to be honest. 
 
@ArbitraryWater
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" Nice work oldschool. I'm sure that while these statistics don't represent the world or any specific territory, they do represent the kind of people Giant Bomb caters to. "
The reality is this site is the "mature" or "traditional" gamer scene and that isn't a good or bad thing, it just is.  We do tend to get very few rabid fanboys as they go to console specific sites I guess and those who do come here get run out of town pretty quickly: 

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#42  Edited By oldschool
@EVO said:
" Great work, but there's just one thing:
 
" One in every 2 of you has a Wii, so that means the majority of the membership is a Wii owner, so I call for more respect for the Wii "
 Just cause you own a Wii, doesn't mean you gotta respect it. Heck, to a degree you've disrespected the PSP in this very thread. "
Very true, but I guess still respect the PSP for those who do enjoy using it, even if I just can't.
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#43  Edited By natetodamax

Interesting results, nice work!

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#44  Edited By DanielJW

I'm part of the PS3, Wii, PSP category. Guess which one I still play.

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#45  Edited By c1337us

I have it all, it's good to be me.

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#46  Edited By xyzygy

1 in 10 with a 360 and only 1 in 25 with a PS3? I would have thought those two statistics would be much more closer.

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#47  Edited By sjschmidt93

Nice stats, man.

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#48  Edited By oldschool
@DanielJW said:
" I'm part of the PS3, Wii, PSP category. Guess which one I still play. "
The PSP  (^_^) 
@c1337us said:
" I have it all, it's good to be me. "
It certainly is. 
@xyzygy said:
" 1 in 10 with a 360 and only 1 in 25 with a PS3? I would have thought those two statistics would be much more closer. "
I am not surprised.  A lot of people who love their 360 probably can't see the value in the cost of a PS3 for what may be a few exclusives that could live without.  Yes, I know there are some "good" ones, but to many, just not system sellers I guess.  For me, the exclusives on the PS3  are more likely to be to my tastes, so adding it eventually is a no-brainer.
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#49  Edited By Jensonb

I'm in the have it all crowd.
 
Colour me unsurprised by the Xbox 360 domination, I'd observed that unscientifically already.

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#50  Edited By Video_Game_King

Who the hell is that fifth person who doesn't own a 360? Is it the same asshole who told me not to buy Colgate Tartar Control? POINT ME TO HIM!!!