Nielsen Survey: PS3 Owners Are Starting To Stream Like Mad
See Full ImageWhat did you do with your PlayStation 3 in 2012?
According to a recent Nielsen survey, PS3 owners spent a whopping 23% of their overall console time streaming video-on-demand services such as Netflix and Hulu Plus. That's up 10% from 2011.
The participants in the survey were aged 13 and up and it's clear that the PS3 has become a fixture of living room entertainment. It's also notable that 32% of the time spent with the Wii involved streaming services. The Xbox 360 is used most often for online gaming (which is no surprise), as the 360 is least utilized for offline gaming; the Wii leading with the PS3 second. It's always interesting to see such results, especially when you remember that several decades ago, video game consoles did only one thing- play video games.
And it's not a bad thing that they've expanded. They can be entertainment hubs in a great many homes because you don't have to be a gamer to own a game console. It just does so many other things and that will be an even more accurate statement when the next generation rolls around...
Tags: ps3, playstation 3, nielsen, nielsen survey, ps3 gamers
3/14/2013 11:00:57 PM Ben Dutka
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playaplus
Thursday, March 14, 2013 @ 11:34:54 PM
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Akuma07
Thursday, March 14, 2013 @ 11:45:21 PM
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I have never streamed anything on my PS3, and neither has anyone I have ever met. In Australia we don't even have that much streaming content on the PS3. Nothing worth looking into.
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Temjin001
Friday, March 15, 2013 @ 12:37:50 AM
So you live in Austrailia? Hey, so does your pizza rock over there? Like, it's extra thick on meat and toppings and our American style pizza is weenie-like in comparison.
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SmokeyPSD
Friday, March 15, 2013 @ 5:04:52 AM
Actually our servings of everything are pretty much across the board smaller than in America, pizza's included Temjin has been my experience. I've visited the States and I noticed that.
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Clamedeus
Friday, March 15, 2013 @ 2:19:58 PM
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Highlander
Friday, March 15, 2013 @ 2:48:57 PM
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Clamedeus
Friday, March 15, 2013 @ 11:37:21 PM
And that sounds really good. :P
Last edited by Clamedeus on 3/15/2013 11:39:12 PM
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karneli lll
Thursday, March 14, 2013 @ 11:49:46 PM
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touchyourtoes
Friday, March 15, 2013 @ 12:09:26 AM
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This poll represents 0.00003% of PS3's sold, don't know the actual number of users but still, ask a few more to make a whole percentage point or don't release the data. I don't stream a damn thing because the services in Canada simply blow ass.
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dmiitrie
Friday, March 15, 2013 @ 1:34:34 AM
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Highlander
Friday, March 15, 2013 @ 2:53:50 PM
Of course the questions can shape the answers. Questions like "How many hours a week do you use your PS3 to stream video content from an online provider?" might have answers like 1-2, 3-5, 6-9, 10-15, 16+ and 0. Depending on where the '0' answer is placed it may be missed by some people and they will feel obligated to choose one of the other choices. Alternately questions can be phrased so that there is only one reasonable answer despite the face that the underlying question has multiple acceptable answers. You can always skew the results by shaping the questions you ask to the answers you want to get. Though you kind of have to take on trust that a survey like this is not done with the intent of skewing the result.
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Sir Dan
Friday, March 15, 2013 @ 8:53:26 AM
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I use my PS3 as a media server streamer. Set Windows media player 11 to share on my PC and I look at family vacation pics in slide show mode with a sound track. It's actually quite moving if you have the right songs playing. I stream my MP3's through it too. Got it playing through a nice surround sound system. I expect PS4 will be even better in this area.
Last edited by Sir Dan on 3/15/2013 8:55:02 AM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Friday, March 15, 2013 @ 11:16:16 AM
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Crabba
Friday, March 15, 2013 @ 5:17:35 PM
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Not only does it have very few shows/movies interesting to me, but hey that's all subjective, but man I had no idea you had to watch like 7-8 commercial breaks for a single tv episode. Holy c**p! There's no way in hell I'd pay anything for that, and well wouldn't even use it for free so I could just as well cancel the free trial 'cause I'll never use it again...
It only made me realize how much better Netflix is, better content, better quality video and most importantly NO COMMERCIALS!! And I'm not even that big a fan of Netflix, since they don't have a lot of the shows I want to watch...
I've never tried vudu though, how is that one compared to netflix/hulu?
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dmiitrie
Friday, March 15, 2013 @ 6:21:39 PM
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DjStiv3
Sunday, March 17, 2013 @ 7:33:46 PM
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HOWEVER if you work alot and stuff thats why you dont play as much and im sure most owners are in the 16-25 category like me im in the middle
But yea f*ck roku and apple tv i got my ps3 that also plays games and many other things for netflix
Its nice to have this option when your tired and want to watch stuff not play games
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riptide8
Monday, March 18, 2013 @ 2:01:10 PM
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LimitedVertigo
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 @ 11:20:06 PM