Xbox One Users Spend the Most Time Gaming

With the PlayStation Pro and Xbox’s upcoming Scorpio console offering gamers an even more immersive experience, today we look at how long users spend gaming.

[PhoenixUp]

This survey doesn't take into account every gamer, just selected few for this particular survey.

[Blubby]

No sht sherlock, you cant ask everyone

[dirkdady]

I suspect because ps4 has two times the user base there are more casuals thrown into the mix to bring the average down.

[Kingthrash360]

And the search for ammo continues. ...each console sold over 17 million....so we are going by what was asked of less than 1 percent of the gamers? And then boast when xbox wins by a small margin, in the US no less...really. this is what it's come to?

Funny how no one replies to my comment. Guess it's that on point.

This survey is equal to having 300 people in a room playing a game and asking only 3 of them how long did you play and then comparing results.

[christocolus]

@Overload

"Riddle solved: PlayStation users have jobs and we use them to actually buy games on the system we play on which is reflected by sales charts."

Lmao xD. what a load of crap. This must be one of the funniest, weirdest and pathetic comments I've read here on N4G in a while. Overload you sound like a little kid. You are way too invested in console and fanboy wars to enjoy normal/healthy and fun gaming. You make gaming seem like a secret cult. Damn... If gaming gets you this worked up then maybe you should go look for some other hobby and are you saying Xbox owners don't have jobs too? you sound so upset bro..chill out. Hahahahaha

[TheCommentator]

Overload, I'll try to be nice about this explanation.

The article says that Xbox gamers game more on their consoles than PS gamers do. Matter of fact, Xbox gamers have also consistently bought more games per console since the 360 came out. PS gamers have always been more casual because the PS brand has always been more popular. Since popular things sell to a wider audience, the PS naturally attracts more people who don't game as much.

You mentioned sales charts. Sales charts reflect only the TOTAL sales and not the RATIO of sales to consoles sold so the sales metric alone proves nothing about who games more. Matter of fact, the sales ratio I described doesn't directly relate to average playtime per customer per day either, but one can assume that if someone buys more games, they'll probably have to play more often as well. I mentioned sales ratio because it's the only sales metric that may be able to explain why Xbox gamers like gaming more.

Here's an interesting question: If the Xbox brand doesn't have nearly as many exclusives as PS, shouldn't that mean PS gamers should be buying more games and playing more often?

[rainslacker]

@dealwithit

"Sony are masters at crafting the one and done experience and when they do decide to add a multi player option it feels tacked on and horrible."

Ummm....no.

UC2/3 and TLOU were praised as great MP, and held players retention for a long time, even to today. UC4 itself has been divisive, but most of that is in comparison to UC2/3 and how different it is, not so much that it was just tacked on.

Sony also has DriveClub, which is heavily MP focused, but also a solid SP experience.

LittleBigPlanet is heavily MP focused, and is still heavily active today, and in no way tacked on despite having a solid SP experience.

GT:Sport is an established franchise which is poised to make what has been traditionally a SP experience, and make it into a MP experience.

Killzone series in general has always had a strong SP and MP experience, with great longevity.

Other games have less impactful MP aspects of their game, but don't really feel tacked on, rather just integrated into the design.

I don't tend to ask people in general what they're playing, but based on anecdotal evidence of comments i see on here, it seems plenty of Sony players continue to play games well after their release, sometimes due to MP, other times because the SP is deep enough to provide longevity.

[Kribwalker]

Lol overload

According to your charts you posted to prove Xbox gamers don't buy exclusives has FH3 at #8 for the standard edition and #12 for the ultimate edition, even when a lot of the copies of the game will be digital since you get an Xbox and PC version of the game if it's digital which is sitting at 25 right next to the Recore collectors edition at 26

[Death]

lol@Playstation owners have jobs. I'm pretty sure Xbox and even the often overlooked Wii owners have jobs too. The difference is some of you still have that second job Sony told you to take when they launched the PS3. It's all cool now, you can quit that second job and start gaming again. ;)

[LexHazard79]

@Overload,

When you get the digital sales for xbox games , then I'll believe you. Amazon doesnt reflect all games sales worldwide. Its not the only major retail that sells games. So get all those numbers as well...

Also, Im assuming that Xbox gamers have jobs too, they bought the more expensive console and have more expensive peripherals.

When are you gonna come out the closest.....you love MS.

[Overload]

In the end, I provide data, while others provide excuses and anger filled rants.

The jobs part was obviously a joke.

I could pull up every chart available and all of them will be covered in PS4 games. That tells you all you need to know really, not some small sample survey.

[SniperControl]

Lol, are you guys really arguing over an extra 12 minutes a day?

It's pure comedy in here sometimes.

[its_JEFF]

@Blubby hahaha... so disrespectful, but so true!

[Silly gameAr]

And, that makes this survey pointless and misleading.

[Black0ut]

Best reply ever Blubby...omg XD

[kamisama]

so your saying this survey means absolutely nothing lol

[nitus10]

When devices are connected to the internet you actually can ask everyone but the main problem you have is will everyone respond to your survey? It is also important to know what were the questions asked in the survey.

Here is an interesting survey question for married couples. "When did you stop beating your wife?" answer that and you just admitted that you beat your wife.

The whole idea of any statistical analysis is to randomly select a reasonable sample out of a total population. The problem you always have is defining what a "reasonable sample" actually is. From the article the overall sample was 17,990 which to many would appear quite allot, however the total population of consoles surveyed comprises the following PS3 (86+ million), PS4 (43+ million), XBox360 (85+ million), XB1 (22+ million), Wii (101 million) and WiiU (13+ million).

Out of that massive population of consoles how many are still working, does each person surveyed have two or more of the same console or different console or consoles, etc (starts to get complex doesn't it). So now that 17,999 sample actually pales into insignificance and you end up getting massive error bars or if you like a large percentage of uncertainty.

You also hit a problem in your sample in that to get fair results you need to spread the survey over a wide geographical area so you would end up with different results for Europe, Japan and the US. Even if the survey was in the US only you may get different results depending on each state. You also have to consider different ages as well as social and economic groups.

Basically "How to lie with Statistics", see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... also a web search will find plenty of references to this statement.

In other words take surveys like this with a grain of salt (assuming you like the taste of salt and most people on this planet do but some don't). 😉

[Kryptix]

When mixing the hardcore with a larger number of casuals, amount of time played as an average does goes down worse.

This survey really proves that there are more casuals on the PS4 side, but that is to be expected with the greater sales as it's an attractive choice being the leader of the market. Statistics say that casuals migrate to the most popular item 1st.

Here is a quote from the article:

"PS4 users then fall slightly behind on 2:15 hours, something which is particularly notable given that it tends to outscore the other next-gen consoles for both current ownership and future purchase consideration."

The surveys they conduct people want PlayStation more so it's doing something right with overall marketing. Let it be for the hardcore or casual.

I don't know though, the people being asked in these surveys are strange:

http://www.globalwebindex.n...

In this one, it says that people are more interested in purchasing an Xbox 360 over an Xbox One. LOL This was in 2016 Q1.

[UltraNova]

12 mins more than the ps4 and even less for the Wii U? Thats it? Deviation alone should eliminate such a miniscule difference considering this survey had such a small test pool.

[Utalkin2me]

Lol @ asking people.

[Nivekki]

@Kingthrash360

People didn't reply to your comment because it was shit.

That's the sole reason.

[KaoSouL]

Yeah, that's every survey ever taken genius!

[BullyMangler]

Shouldnt the PS4 be the most played, as it has the most GLOBAL saLes, by a land sLide ?

And how the fudge, is wiiU even uP there, if wiiU has the least saLes, out of the bunch ??

According to the chart, Most gamers are spending the most time playing wiiU/XB1

As if ps4 collecting dust ?

But Sony says "PS4 is the best place to pLay".

LMAO

[InMyOpinion]

@bullymangLer - If you and the rest of people in here knew how to read charts, and had some common sense, you'd all see that the difference is miniscule. 2h 27min for X1, 2h 15min for PS4. Spent by user per day.

The extra 7 minutes for X1 might as well be attributed to having to wait to install games. And most games take more than that before you can play them...

[S2Killinit]

Of course the average goes down when there are more than twice the PS4s in consumer hands. Its basic statistics.

Also they "asked" them, its hardly a proper study.

[Kerppamaister]

Do you know how averages work?

[S2Killinit]

Better than you apparently.

Now let me ask you. Do you know how a proper study is conducted?

[JasonKCK]

S2Killinit The Wii U being ahead screws up your little fantasy

[S2Killinit]

My fantasy. Haha that's rich.

[XStation4pio_Pro]

That's ever survey... or poll. Statistics and averages and random sampling.... they don't go ask every single American who they're voting for president either when they poll.

[S2Killinit]

Yeah but this is hardly a scientific study.

[UCForce]

Look @Overload, just accept one thing is that we PS aren't always invincible in the end. Just let it go, man.

[zb1ftw777]

The attachment rate on XB1 games has been higher this whole gen.

PS4 biased websites just dont like advertising this though.

[Red_Renegade]

higher by not even one whole game.

[destroyerz1]

17,990 console users lol what joke

[JasonKCK]

I'v seen every excuse from casuals to jobs (as if), install base, age, active lifestyle (as if) and now this. Some are so desperate they will do anything to deny the data in front of them.

Overload you just got your ass handed to you.

[deafdani]

Yeah, that's how surveys usually work.

[SirBradders]

I think this reflects deeply on the age group, majority I know with xbox are kids and more clued up mature people with ps4.

Although the margin ain't that big I still think there's an element of what Im stating.

[DJustinUNCHAIND]

How can someone be so bitter?

Did this ruin your day?

[CrimzonRazor]

This is how survey's work always have they are still statistically pretty accurate which is why they are used.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Sounds like this one touched a nerve for you.

[YAO-BLING]

we dont have games to play.. we dont have time to do surveys.. FOH

[DarXyde]

I don't think it's that unreasonable to believe Xbox gamers play more. They've been paying more longer for Live, they have EA Access, and they do have, at the very least, more free games. Granted, I'm predominantly a PS4 gamer, but I don't see this survey out of the realm of possibility.

You must take into account the sample size, region of this study, and when this data was collected (time window). In doing so, you can determine if it was because a new game came out, PSN was down, people just bought the One S, etc. It's very multivariate with no single answer. If all of this was collected recently in America, it actually makes good sense.

[GamingIVfun]

I call booshit. These polls are a dime a dozen. PS4 sells and has way more revenue from games than Xbox One or any other system available now, US and world wide. I don't think PS4 gamers are buying them and not playing them.

These polls are useless they asked 17,000 people, blanket number of people. no way it could be accurate.

[Night99]

No shit sherlock! This is called a random sample and almost every survey ever works this way, when your sample is a decent representation of the population you get very accurate results.

[Loadedklip]

And water is wet.

[iplay1up2]

Funny, Wii U certainly is played a lot for being a dead console! Still playing mine all of the time!

Just started Lego City Undercover, what a great game! I have had it for 2 years, just never played it, but for maybe an hour! Its like GTA, except I don't hear the F word constantly! Also the humor is great!

[Cartman55125]

For real, my little sister plays her Wii U everyday after school

[iplay1up2]

Good for her!!! She probably loves Xenoblade X!

[cyclindk]

You, I expect, are not in the survey, therefore you do no exist and do not play games.

[DragonPaw]

I call BS on this survey. I don't even know anyone who owns an Xbox1. The PS4 is definitely dominating the market, so more people on Xbox is illogical. This is just a feature article. Until there are legitimate numbers from MS and Sony will I ever consider this a legitimate topic.

This isn't from MS. It is from a no name website looking for bait clicks. No thank you.

[Gardenia]

Other surveys say Americans spend the most time gaming, and since Xbox is most used in the USA, this does make sense

[jholden3249]

Well, it's still going for now but, that won't last much longer. Come Zelda it's a wrap.

There's a good little handful of gems though (personally recommend Pikmin 3, Xenoblade X and DKC Tropical Freeze, oh and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate) and I think with BC for Wii games and the fact you can now mod a Wii U in 20 minutes to play GameCube in HD widescreen with a Wii U pro controller, all from SD card (of course I own the games physically).

I know I've been binging on HD GameCube for some time now.

[andrewsquall]

You play your Wii U "all the time" and use a 3 and a half years old game to talk up this point? You can pretty much say that about any other console then, except some other consoles (not even this gen) have the same if not vastly superior games and a much larger quantity too.

No wonder the Wii U is dead. If you are only playing Lego City Undercover now, what the hell were you playing in March 2013? My bad, of course, like many Wii U owners/hardcore fans, even you didn't have a Wii U back then.

[iplay1up2]

Like I said I had the game for 2 years and never played it.

[Loadedklip]

Well it does have highly replayable games like Smash 4, Mario Kart 8, Splatoon.

Wii U has great exclusives. It just doesn't have enough QUANTITY of quality games due to lack of third party support.

[cl1983]

Interesting no category for pc gamers.

[Nathan_Hale53]

Don't get the downvotes. Why exclude PC gamers?

[CrimzonRazor]

It was a console survey why would pc be included

[bradleejones]

It is a survey of console gamers. That is why.

[DragonDDark]

Ok....

[Gazondaily]

Lol oh dear....😂

[ThePope]

Septic I hope you're prepared for the excuses that are about to get hurled at you. lol It might get ugly in here.

[Gazondaily]

Even I wasn't prepared for what I'm reading. These guys exceed my expectations...always!

[Stogz]

Are you really making a big deal over 12 minutes?? That's so minute who cares? Ahhh fanboys...

[Relientk77]

Sorry I have friends, places to go, and a job?
Lol

[rainslacker]

Yeah, and 12 minutes per day(on average) less time to play games.:)

Some people are making it out like there is a huge discrepancy between them or that this statistic is in some way representative of something worthwhile for saying why one group is better/worse than the other.

Interesting link on the site

http://insight.globalwebind...

It's a summary, but the rest of the results in it could be interesting in discerning the make up of all these statistics we see of who plays games where. I'm going to assume the research was done well though, because this article, and even the summary, doesn't give enough details to discern the actual validity or context of the results....which seems to be a very typical method for releasing statistical analysis in today's media.

[Mystogan]

its still funny cuz PS4 has double the marketshare and "Xbone haz no gaemz"

[Stogz]

@My stogin what would market share have to do with average amount of time spent per day gaming?? I don't think you understand how this works...

[Lon3wolf]

Your 18k ish comments say different :P

[JasonKCK]

lololololololololol

[EpicSandwich]

Hahahahahahahahaha soooooo true

[vega275]

Well i guess xbox one owner are busy playing games while ps4 gamers are busy on forum bashing everything MS and xbox one.

[Darkfist_Flames]

nah, we are busy playing different games, going outside, enjoying life, while xbox one owners playing the same shooters/racing game, while praising mediocre games like recore, and a console that dont exist yet xD.

@danny818 not according to the disagree i get, we at least have games to play, while you just go back and play cod(or any other 3th party games since you dont have anything else to play) xD

@The_Infected lol, dont forget that we also praised R&C, Uncharted4, Persona5, Digimon Story cyber sleuth, Infamous SS etc(including the up coming games like world of final fantasy, FF XV, KH3, gravity rush2, the last guardian) compare to you fanboys we actually like different games we praise, unlike you start praising quantum break until release then nothing through half the year, and recore which you all thought it was an AAA open world game until the gameplay was revealed.

@vega275 "We are praising a mediocre recore.. well atleast its being played rather than asking for there money back" of course nobody return recore, except for you fanboys hardly anyone bought it( just like sunset overdrive ), and yet no man sky still on the top 10 in the sales chart, so thats something.

[danny818]

you just proved his point. Congrats DarkFistinghimself

[danny818]

i dont play cod tho i play Halo 5 alot

[vega275]

@darkFIST

If sony fans are too busy playing different games as you claim. Then it would have shown in this report....right. since the report is about playing time not what specific game........you do know that right. Guess not by your response to my comment.

Second. We are praising a mediocre recore.. well atleast its being played rather than asking for there money back.

Third. It seem more sony fans are concern about scorpio more than xbox owners. You guys got to come into every scorpio article to tell everyone how it has no exclusive and it wont do native 4k just to justify why the pro is the weaker console and how upscale is now acceptible cause sony said so.

[ThePope]

@Vega

Well said. Nothing negative can be said about the PS on this site. Its so sad.

[JasonKCK]

The excuses are unreal.

[rainslacker]

Says the guy being busy on forums bashing everything Sony and PS4?

[vega275]

Hypocrite much

[rainslacker]

Yes, I'd say you are.

Edit@Below

I'm not mad at you. Not even saying I'm not doing the same. Just pointing out what you're doing.

Also stalking? Making a comment, then following up with another reply is far from stalking.

[vega275]

Much like yourself. Stop acting like like you dont be bashing anything MS or xbox. Dont get mad at me cause i call you guys out.

Now go play some games instead of stalking me and worry about everything MS.

[xDealtwithIt]

So far I have read a lot of excuses, Playstation gamers have jobs, there are too many games to play for playstation, playstation owners have a lot of different games, the install base is double so of course the average will be lower and so on and so forth. Every excuse except for the excuse of actually playing games for a longer period of time.

The PS4 comes in third on the list behind the Xbox One and Wii U, that should really shine a light on this particular fan base. I am sure though I'll get more excuses though.

[trooper_]

You had to win at something, right?

It's sad when gaming comes down to bragging about a survey.

[Keltech]

Sad indeed smh

[xDealtwithIt]

Think about that, a survey about which console gets more play time. And the PS4 is behind the WiiU, that is the saddest part of it all.

[DJustinUNCHAIND]

No one is bragging. The very first comment is someone trying to downplay the survey.

[Tussin187]

Wow all of that for 12 more minutes. 12 minutes make Xbox gamers more superior and they don't go on forums. I've officially heard everything now. 12 minutes= we play games only and you guys do nothing but troll on forums. This is what we have come to in today's gamer.
O_o

[TheColbertinator]

People buy consoles to play games. Who knew?

[ShadowKnight]

Nintendo is up there that's awesome but I can't take this survey seriously. Maybe they should do a survey in every country and the entire world but that might be impossible.

[Lennoxb63]

I think it has a lot to do with Xbox games being MP focused and PS games being SP focused. You can spend 100s of hours on MP. Not so much in SP games. Sure you have your 3rd party games. But those are also dominantly MP and Xbox gamers play MP more. Just a guess.

[Red_Renegade]

i've put hundreds of hours in lots of single player games. been doing it since before xbox ever existed. your guess sucks.

[ChronoJoe]

But are these figures significantly different? Probably not. Either way it's clear that the XBOX ONE, PS4 and Wii U most likely captured a similar demographic that play games more frequently than those on systems like the original Wii, or mobile.

[Skankinruby]

Not sure what the point of this article is other than to create a flame war. They spend 12 more minutes per day based on a a few randomly selected gamers? This doesn't prove anything about any fanbase

[Deathdeliverer]

So we are going to debate about 12 min? Get it together people!

[JasonKCK]

So the gamers with the larger base play less games? I want more information. I want to know why.

[Errorist76]

They are older and prefer other games than MP shooters.

[EpicSandwich]

Interactive movies? I know my grandparents like that stuff

[rainslacker]

You can purchase a more thorough report. This article just summarizes a conclusion that their overall research, which was dealing with more than just this, came to.

Don't know if it's worthwhile. Doubt any website is going to purchase the results to actually make an article which would make the information more easily interpritable or put things into context by understanding the methodology used to conduct the survey. Generally, they can get enough hits just by publishing the results, because those that would prefer more accurate reporting aren't as high as the people who will just react to the results without really understanding what it all means, or how it actually could affect future decisions or represent the user base.

[Liqu1d]

Larger player base = a higher amount of casual gamers

It's not rocket science.

[JasonKCK]

There have been 5000 excuses so far... my bad 5001.

[Keltech]

You should know about excuse y'all have been making them since Kinect on the 360.

[Red_Renegade]

so you want to know, but just call everything an excuse? are you trolling?

[JasonKCK]

I want to know more from the study. As for the excuses, try denying it.

[Red_Renegade]

some people definitely made some things up, but some things are common sense. i saw somebody say the more you sell, the more casuals you'll have. well that makes sense, doesn't it? but for you it's just an excuse.

[2600Thunder]

Click bait.

[ClickbaitAF]

You ok son?

[Majister-Ludi]

Not surprising honestly what is though is how much the wii u is played.

[zerocarnage]

Why is it in comments as soon as one side comes out on top for something there's just all sorts of bull and excuses thrown out. Why can't people just be happy rather than having to bash or pull down the very thing they don't own.

[DragonbornZ]

Ya'll need to relax and take a week off N4G.
People getting heated in here lmao.

[Mr_Luke]

Uhm... ok. And?

[game4funz]

No and needed. It's just info.

[franwex]

Wow, this is the article who sent the fanboys over the edge? Xbox being played a little bit more on games is what did it?

[NoFanboyJustLovGames]

Wait this cant be right, how can xbox be number one in most played when people claim it has no games...... hmmmm

[EpicSandwich]

Reality check, it has the best games

[game4funz]

I love howfans here are getting over a couple minutes difference.

[SegaGamer]

Bloody hell, is there nothing these fanboys won't argue about. What is wrong with people on here ? It's crappy little survey, get a grip.

[CrimzonRazor]

I spend more time with my x1 then my ps4, for a couple reasons. 1 i have a external hd which means I can fit more games on the x1. 2 I like Ms first party titles more then sony's this gen. 3 and probably the biggest is I have ALOT more friends I play with on x1.

[bellome]

Shocking @_@

[trouble_bubble]

A sample size of 17900 out of tens of millions is pointlessly insignificant. What age group you asking, territory? Tweak one variable, ask another 17900 in and you'll get something else entirely.

[DaDrunkenJester]

The thing is there are more games for Xbox that have longevity... so the player base plays them more. Most Playstation 4 exclusives are one and done experiences so the total play hours are lower.

Doesn't mean one is better than the other just means Xbox focuses more on MP experiences instead of SP.

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

Only 18,000? What the hell?

[MasterCornholio]

Interesting statistics.

As for the comment section........

https://encrypted-tbn1.gsta...

[Mystogan]

Funny since PS4 has double the marketshare and "Xbone haz no gaemz"

[Tussin187]

Yeah I also find it funny that people are on here claiming some kind of victory over 12 minutes. You know what I took from this survey. All the consoles, especially this gen ones, get around the same playtimes. But as usual, let's turn this into some kind of fanboy war. Predictable on this site.

[Mystogan]

Except for the fact that one has double the marketshare. And claims that Xbox is focusing too much on multimedia. And has no good games. 12 minutes seems insignificant but not when you put it into perspective.

What I took from this survey is that Even with half the marketshare, "no gamez", more multimedia features. We still game more than PS4 owners. It just shows that Xbox is just a way better place to play.

This IS a victory for Team Xbox because their plan to make people spend more time gaming on their console is working.

[EpicSandwich]

It looks like xbox has the games and ps4 doesn't, people are even playing wii more

[Doabarrelroll]

LOL victory for team Xbox, you sound like the type of loser who paints his body green with Xbox tattoos over your body,

"Better place to play"? Because a Random survey of 18000 people when there's 60+ million current gen gamers in total with no factors explained is a great way to prove something, you sound desperate for fanboy ammo

[Doabarrelroll]

18000 out of 70+ million gamers is a huge sample, my god your retarted.

What exactly am I salty about? An insecure fanboy trying to justify his purchase.

Funny if that's the average than I must be a bigger gamer than all 18000 of those people, cause I easily log in more than 2hrs 30mins a day and I stop playing early

[Mystogan]

Do you even know what average means?

[quent]

Why is my 1st comment flagd as being inappropriate ?, simply for making a observant statement, WTF's wrong with this site seriously, its like FANBOY CANCER CENTRAL.

[BigGamersSmallTalk]

Xbox One gamers have a lot of games to choose from. The more surprising thing was Wii U beating PS4. Probably doesn't help that Sony is going through yet another dry spell where AAA exclusives are concerned for the holidays.

[ChickenOfTheCaveMan]

What!? The two younger crowd consoles register more hours of gaming, amazing!

[EpicSandwich]

Ps4 has school kids playing cod religiously. The kids are on ps this gen

[Mystogan]

lol. GTFOH. No excuses. PS4 has double the marketshare.

[bradleejones]

People still play the Wii??!

[gbsrnctaln]

I mean who else has the time for 12 hr mountain dew fueled COD marathons?

[chobit_A5HL3Y]

tbh, i spend the majority of time on mine watching youtube and twitch, or watching movies. i don't even end up actually playing games every day anymore.

[lipton101]

The Wii U row surprises me the most

[BLAKHOODe]

I use mine to watch Netflix, Amazon, etc., more than anything. But if I had a Xbox One, and it was my primary system, I would use it the same way.

[mkis007]

Articles like these ae poison, don't read them and you won't be tainted.

[ITPython]

I wonder if they removed the surveyed xb1 N4G players who all said they play 50 hours a day?

[kaiserxblue]

Well cry me a fucking river, seriously reading these comments make me sick, it's no wonder why the gaming community is consider a joke from the outside.
You all mad cause Ps4 is not the most play console, wow!! Shocking, no shit lots of people just bought it for playing their Fifa or COD and then rest of the time it's paperwight...
So Xbox and Wii U are top, it means that those consoles have competitive games.
PC gamers bitching? Well it's a survery on CONSOLES, not PCs.

[SynestheticRoar]

This gives the impression it was created by unfortunate litte kids lacking favorably resources.

[Mikey94]

Because playstation players are to busy on pornhub all the time or just have no games to play.

[Shakengandulf]

Just proves that there mostly kids and don't work.

[EpicSandwich]

OR they have games

[lex-1020]

Um. Ok? And this is considered news why?

[Crakface]

why is xbox news always in the playstation section. Get this filth out of my sight.

[Silly gameAr]

I think N4G is running a promo campaign for MS. The admins need to clean up a little behind the scenes because a lot of stuff going on on N4G lately isn't adding up.

[Crakface]

It's been going for years now. Always infringing on my Playstation news.

Why would a website promote reasons to not buy a ps pro in the PlayStation section. Or worse to buy an xbox instead of a ps pro in the PlayStation section.

It's disgusting. Payola. Moneyhatting. Stoppit.

[BattleAxe]

This comes a no surprise really. The PS4 crazies on this site are generally all talk, no action.

[TheRacingX]

Interesting to see the WiiU up there, games still worth playing......

[Broomfondle]

Losers. Get a life.

[MultiConsoleGamer]

No surprises here.

[Warshade]

Too bad it took Microsoft a horrible E3 to figure that out lol. I gotta say though at the time the original xbox was the best dvd player there was with superb up-scaling.

[kingarthur4747]

I think it may have to do with the PS4 player's average age. Loyal Playstation players have been playing PS since 1994/95. Many older players have more important things to do than play games. They have less down time to enjoy games. Xbox loyals are younger.

As for Wii U, it has many young kid players because of Mario, Pikmin, Splatoon, etc.

[Saito]

It's funny cuz the xbox fanboys are attacking the sony fanboys but try to appear neutral in the matter but their favoritism in showing in said responses cmon guys youre not clean as you want to be

[Vanfernal]

LMAO. What a pointless statistic. The average XBOX user spends A WHOLE 12 MINUTES playing more than the PS4 gamers... And 1 minute more than the WiiU gamers... Statistically speaking this proves absolutely nothing. Not to mention that you need a controlled group to make any significant conclusion out of a survey. E.g. If I ask 10 PS4 users how much time they spend playing and 9 say 2 hours and 1 says 1 hour... The average time they play is 1.9 hours... then I ask ONE Xbox guy how much he plays and he says 2 hours... The average is 2 hours. In short, you would need to ask say 1000 PS4, 1000 Xbox, and 1000 WiiU gamers how much they spend playing on average and then make a comparison. Here they didn't disclose how many players from each console got surveyed in order to make the userbase statistics matter. Ican't help but feel like this article is stealth console war flame bait.

[shadowfax33]

that's probably thanks to players who must get full 1000/1000 achievements on every game the play.

[ASSASSYN]

I rarely watch anything on my Xbox ones. I bought it to game before anything else.

Literally watching a movie as I type this.

[gamertk421]

Sony players use that time to come to N4G.

[bmky]

I have a PS4. I play FIFA everyday offline with my roommate - I have never been asked to take a survey. I think this survey applies to USA and EU. The other half of the world is not connected to the internet every other day and that's where playstation dominates in Sales. Cant even remeber last time I saw anybody with an Xbox down here.

[Artemidorus]

It's a gaming console what else would you do?

[PlatinumGX]

This comment section is funny.

[Ristul]

If this survey was done in Japan (where Xbox One sold abysmal compared to PS4) the results could still be the same. The very few who bought Xbox Ones in Japan could be a lot more hardcore then the average person who bought a PS4 - the average playtime on Xbox One would then be higher for Xbox One even in Japan. This is not news, clickbait at best.

[Night99]

This is not a surprise at all, Xbox One has the best games of all consoles and it has the games with the longest durability without a doubt. Halo, Forza, Gears of War all this games have some of the best multiplayer among the whole gaming industrie you can play all of them even years after you bought them for thousands of hours, as opposed most Playstation4 games are done after 5 or 10 hours like Uncharted4 or The Order 1886.

[spanner]

Bragging over gaming more 😄. Wow just wow

[joeorc]

@spanner3h ago
[Bragging over gaming more 😄. Wow just wow]

And only by an extra 12 min's..LMAO

Statistics would be vastly different on a world wide scale, because in other places of the world , Microsoft's Xbox as a platform has no presence at all in the retail market, while both Nintendo & Sony do..what would the survey be there?

It's taking a single region to try to paint the narrative as the Market as a whole..

IE: America = The world...from the only Region that matters , to the Ours is the most important Market , to everyone else games are Meh'

Typical.

[Dragonopolis]

wow .... really..... there is a one minute difference in the chart compared to the Wii U which could be chalked down to loading times which would leave only seconds between the highest two; .... Heck even a 12 minute difference isn't that much longer in time not even worth reporting.... what I see is that essentially console gamers roughly dedicate the same amount of time for game play and a few minutes off isn't that big of a deal.......

[joeorc]

@Dragonopolis

Exactly! The varience average in most throughout for atleast a lengthy poll or data analysis is 3 to 5% in any data gathering poll, So really this stastics difference is of no real consequence.. It's time differences are of no real large enough of a gap to really matter, since variables are so close to each other it's virtually non existent.

If there was a real sizable difference in time of usage , that's one thing..but considering advertisements of new upcoming game videos are a plenty, the difference in less than 30 min's between all platforms is pretty notable ..that's the difference in Time of less than eating Lunch or in effect going outside to walk a dog..or make coffee!

It's not really enough time difference in variance to matter in a stastics like this if it was say by a couple of hours than that could be something of atleast a large enough varience to give somewhat of a start on stastics gathering.. Than it would than have to go week by week, break down of the gamers habit on Gaming of each of these survey gamers to post their daily gaming stastics, than increasing the sample size over a month straight.. And since its a world wide market , gather gamers from around the world to gather more surveyed gamers from.around the globe to give a better smple size for the market as a whole.

[saint_seya]

I wonder who can take a survery with a sample data of less than 0.04% of playstation users seriusly, and besides, the data is collected through surveys, you cant collect data asking people, those aren't facts, you need to get the data using reliable sources, like taking data from data centers, or following the test subjects for a period of time.
Those things that are not done here, but hey, MS won something, lets put it on N4g and call it a win right?

[Night99]

17.000 people is actually a really large sample it is more than enough, most surveys work with way way less. The more important part when it comes to random sample is does your sample reflect your population decently similar gender ratio and so on. With a proper randome sample you easily can extrapolate from a few hundreds of people to populations of 100 Millions.

[saint_seya]

Like i said, besides of been a low amount, the most important thing here is that is data collected from a survey.. I can tell that i play 16hrs per day just to boost the numbers, or at the same time people could say that they play less than they do, just to not be judged by others for the amount of time that they invest in games.
Either way, numbers could be the closest to the real thing, as they could be the furthest .. Its like making your own numbers, without proof, the numbers you get from a survery are worthless.

[joeorc]

@Night99

Sample size and stastics gathering go hand in hand as well as time of usage over such a point to post any data analysis..saint_seya, was absolutely right, your sample size of 17,000 while large is of no real use since its not taking into account more data gathering metrics beyond a simple one impute vector. It's not really breaking down the actual habits of those in survey on a brief snapshot if you will, which could be like any other day in the.life of said person..today and yesterday may not.be even remotely the same data validation for the very same survey for its source data would be off..there is not enough of a statistics input over multiple data point to be anywhere near accurate enough.

[Night99]

@joeorc of course you can criticize every survey even the one of highly respected social academics quite likely will have some weak spots and if it comes to the theoretical approach you always could make things a little bit different.
But for what it is this survey is quite interesting it is with a large amount of people and the results are interesting to say the least.

[Night99]

The amount of people is not low it is actually large for a sample but your other point the social desirability bias might be valid criticism, this kind of effects are often a point of concerns regarding interviews but it is rather an issue in face to face interviews and less likely in this case with a questionary where the participants stay anonymous and even if this effects still would be present within this study it doens't really makes sense that this is different't among Playstation4 gamers and XboxOne gamers.

[heedstone]

That's not too much of a surprise, the PS4 is the console for mainstream gamers this generation, much like the 360 was last gen.

[EazyC]

It's weird because, as a PS4 player, I consider myself a serious gamer (I love them and the industry that encompasses it) , yet I only have time to play games at the weekend, and even then only sometimes. Wish I didn't have to sleep, then I would be able to play games whilst still having a working/social life.

[VoodooProject]

Do PS4 gamers even game bro?

[yeahright2]

So all three of the major consoles game around the same amount?
Honestly I thought Wii U and vita would blow all others out of the water. Doesn't look like vita was even considered based on the chart though.

[Night99]

PS4 has no good games you can play for longer than 5 hours thats why no one plays with this console. And plus Sony fanboys spend all there time trolling on N4G and neoGAF.

[andrewsquall]

Well what else were they going to be doing? Watching 4K Bluray movies lol?

[Kurdishcurse]

uhhh...ok...so?

[SuperbVillain]

they should do it by age groups on eachm its not fair to gauge a 27 year olds gaming habits to an 18 year old,cause of life

[Ninver]

And the most time trolling. I wish i had mire time to play my ps4 but being an adult with responsibilities of work and property investing takes up almost all my time. I bearly get 1 hour in twice a week.