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* Console battle heats up between Wii and XBox: Netflix, ESPN rumors up ?the
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TOPIC: Console battle heats up between Wii and XBox: Netflix, ESPN rumors up ?
the stakes
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.video.nintendo.wii/t/2e9529e728c037fb
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Wed 20 Jan 2010 19:25
From: argento32
"_XBox, however, does not appear to be chasing the tail of any other
console"
Thats when I stopped taking this article seriously. Love my 360 but
honestly Project Natal and the PSWand are trying to capture the Wii
market and Nintendo has already beautifully cornered it.
== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Fri 22 Jan 2010 11:34
From: Doug Jacobs
In alt.games.video.xbox Tempest <mordacpreventor@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone out there look at the videos, commericals and related stuff on
>> Xbox Live right now? ?Most of it is stuff you can get elsewhere on the
>> internet, or just by watching TV, or is just uninteresting to me.
>
> It's just you.
>
> Netflix on Xbox Live is very popular. I watch movies as much as I play
> games and at any given time half the people on my friends list are
> watching movies on Netflix.
A much larger percentage of 360 owners have their 360 online already, and
have a Gold account for gaming purposes. I doubt very much there's a
significant number of people whose only purpose for having a Gold account
is to stream movies from Netflix.
The percentage of Wii owners who have their console connected online is
much much lower than that of 360 owners. For some it's because of child
safety reasons. For others they just don't care, or don't know about the
feature - which is my point - Netflix on the Wii isn't going to suddenly
convince any significant number of Wii owners to suddenly take their Wii
online.
From a marketing standpoint, it's nice to be able to say "yeah, we can do
that too" but honestly it's rather silly to spend resources supporting a
feature that not many of your customers are ever going to bother using.
--
It's not broken. It's...advanced.
== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Fri 22 Jan 2010 11:47
From: WDS
On 1/22/2010 1:34 PM, Doug Jacobs wrote:
> A much larger percentage of 360 owners have their 360 online already ...
> The percentage of Wii owners who have their console connected online is
> much much lower than that of 360 owners. ...
>
> From a marketing standpoint, it's nice to be able to say "yeah, we can do
> that too" but honestly it's rather silly to spend resources supporting a
> feature that not many of your customers are ever going to bother using.
# Wii – 50.39 million, as of 31 October 2009 (2009 -10-31)
# Xbox 360 – 34 million,as of 2 October 2009 (2009 -10-02)
It's hard to get exact numbers but back in march there was an article
that said that about 50% of XBox360 users used Live and 29% of Wii users
used whatever the Wii thing is.
From a marketing standpoint, well, do the math.
.29*50mil == 14.5 million
.5*34 == 17 million
Almost a draw.
== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Fri 22 Jan 2010 13:26
From: Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.org (GMAN)
In article <gOOdna5uFeV-YMTWnZ2dnUVZ_tadnZ2d@posted.rawbandwidth>, Doug Jacobs <djacobs@rawbw.com> wrote:
>In alt.games.video.xbox Tempest <mordacpreventor@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Does anyone out there look at the videos, commericals and related stuff on
>>> Xbox Live right now? ?Most of it is stuff you can get elsewhere on the
>>> internet, or just by watching TV, or is just uninteresting to me.
>>
>> It's just you.
>>
>> Netflix on Xbox Live is very popular. I watch movies as much as I play
>> games and at any given time half the people on my friends list are
>> watching movies on Netflix.
>
>A much larger percentage of 360 owners have their 360 online already, and
>have a Gold account for gaming purposes. I doubt very much there's a
>significant number of people whose only purpose for having a Gold account
>is to stream movies from Netflix.
>
>The percentage of Wii owners who have their console connected online is
>much much lower than that of 360 owners. For some it's because of child
>safety reasons. For others they just don't care, or don't know about the
>feature - which is my point - Netflix on the Wii isn't going to suddenly
>convince any significant number of Wii owners to suddenly take their Wii
>online.
>
>From a marketing standpoint, it's nice to be able to say "yeah, we can do
>that too" but honestly it's rather silly to spend resources supporting a
>feature that not many of your customers are ever going to bother using.
>
>
Natal anyone?
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