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Maybe it's just regression and nostalgic delusion, but I find that the consoles of old (up to the sixth generation) had novelty in their designs and ability to mod them.
But now I find them to be dull. Unless one really wants to play exclusive titles, I find no reason to own a console.
And perhaps bigger news in the UK (not sure about other countries): amazon console sales are xbox 360's in the top few slots. No sign of the "one" or PS4.
Why do people spend time on useless graphs for something that could be explained clearly in 3-4 sentences?
Also, infographics get embedded, which still sends traffic your way...
The console wars are quite pointless, I think. Maybe it's just regression and nostalgic delusion, but I find that the consoles of old (up to the sixth generation) had novelty in their designs and ability to mod them. But now I find them to be dull. Unless one really wants to play exclusive titles, I find no reason to own a console.
Valve/Steam/Steambox OTOH, is a fresh and exciting prospect(to me).
This highlights one of the more disappointing aspects of the internet, where group-think leads to essentially mobs of people creating fake reviews on amazon. I wonder what goes through the minds of people when they do that. I mean they're probably aware of the fact that they don't have the console. More than that, what do they have to gain from doing this?
>>>Abandon Thread >>> http://i.imgur.com/oWVPPXF.gif
Why do people spend time on useless graphs for something that could be explained clearly in 3-4 sentences?
Sometimes, pictures show information better than words. Also, infographics get embedded, which still sends traffic your way...
It's not about making charts, it's about making bad charts.
The console wars are quite pointless, I think. Maybe it's just regression and nostalgic delusion, but I find that the consoles of old (up to the sixth generation) had novelty in their designs and ability to mod them. But now I find them to be dull. Unless one really wants to play exclusive titles, I find no reason to own a console.
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Sometimes, pictures show information better than words. Also, infographics get embedded, which still sends traffic your way...
Yeah, but these pictures don't show the information that well. You can't see the numbers side by side -- you have to click between and have an animation run. In addition, they use a two-dimensional representation for one-dimensional data, which is bad because people are bad at judging the sizes of areas. It's not about making charts, it's about making bad charts.
Perhaps someone will make a better chart and post it.
The console wars are quite pointless, I think. Maybe it's just regression and nostalgic delusion, but I find that the consoles of old (up to the sixth generation) had novelty in their designs and ability to mod them. But now I find them to be dull. Unless one really wants to play exclusive titles, I find no reason to own a console.
For example, the "HOW HAPPY VERIFIED REVIEWERS ARE WITH THEIR CONSOLE" pie chart at first glance makes PS4 look a bit better than the Xbox, because the graph above it uses black for PS4.
You have to click he radio button to see that that is correct, by a tiny (I expect not statistically significant) margin. Whether that holds for 4-star reviews, too is kept hidden from the readers.
One could just as easily show the distribution over all star rating for both devices in one graph. More information, easier to grasp.
