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Originally posted by: Acefondu
Now you're just avoiding your own comments. Irrelevant? It's only irrelevent because Nintendo said so.
Precisely. That's enough to make it not matter. I do not believe Nintendo has anyone looking through the millions of submissions they get through the EV channel for questions like "Would you buy more Virtual Console games if they were cheaper?" If you think Virtual Console games should be cheaper, for example, tell Nintendo through a channel that they actually use for that sort of thing. I provided a link earlier. Complaining that the EV channel doesn't serve a purpose that Nintendo never had in mind for it does not make sense.
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You on the other hand said poll statistics aren't a viable resource. They are quite a viable resource.
I said the statistics that could possibly be gathered through the EV channel are practically useless. That is not the same as claiming that no polls are useful.
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We're talking about the video game industry here, two choices for a poll is perfectly legit. "Would you rather play a game... Online; Offline?"
Boy, I'd love to see the answer to that one. But Nintendo doesn't have the balls to see what the answer may be.
Please demonstrate two things. 1. How useful the answer to that question would be. 2. How Nintendo not using the EV channel to ask that question means that they lack the cojones to ask it in another fashion.
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You can't tell me questions like that aren't useful information, two different answers or fifty. In my 3 years now as a Marketing major I can attest that less questions are sometimes better in certain situations. This being one of them under the guise of an entertaining medium no one would fill out a 30 page survey.
I think you may have mistyped that last sentence, and I apologize if I've misinterpreted it, but I think you meant to say that nobody would fill out a 30 page survey under the guise of an entertainment medium although they would fill out a short poll. I agree with that to a certain extent. Would people be eager to answer short market research polls a few times a week, though? I know I'd delete the EV channel if that's all it was good for. Also, if you're arguing that fewer questions or answers are better in this case because it's an entertainment feature, then that has little to do with whether fewer questions or answers are better for the research. There's the problem of getting responses at all, but beyond that, the quality of the responses is important, too.
Enough of the silly questions on the EV channel have been unanswerable by me because of the limited number of options that I would have very little confidence in any data that came from it. For example, the question of whether you brush your teeth before or after breakfast seems like a perfect binary question. You can either brush before or after, right? What if you don't eat breakfast? The question becomes unanswerable. Do you prefer to watch basketball or soccer on TV? I don't like to watch either of them, but I find basketball slightly less unappealing. If someone were going to decide what to show on TV, would my answer be of any use? The lack of options caused the data to be spoiled.
Your own example of whether people prefer online or offline games leaves out the possibility of a middle ground. What if I have no preference? Which answer do I choose? Wouldn't the data be a lot more useful if there were an option for indifference, preventing my vote from being spoiled? Wouldn't it be even more useful if the question was something like, "What percentage of your game playing time is spent playing online games?" with several possible answers? Wouldn't that be yet more useful if you could also ask me how many hours a week I spend playing games? The EV channel is not designed, intended, or needed to do that kind of thing. It's just there for fun.
By the way, I apologize to everyone else for how far off topic this has strayed.
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