I call 10 comments before someone takes this literally as BIAS, starting NOW!

Also, I'm suprised. I would have thought it would be the Wii audience considering they'll buy fucking anything with a fancy box.

Makes sense to me, considering that most of the non-game journalists that I know who own a PS3 use it as a DVD player first, and a game console second (if at all).

Not surprising, didn't Sony pictures make Brokeback Mountain?
I think the new motion controller is for the game adaptation.

I honestly think I stopped at Battle for Middle Earth II, but I'm not sure. I haven't purchased one in a long time, but I unfortunately played the Terminator one over the summer.

That's because PS3 goes months at a time without having any good games to play. When there's absolutely nothing else to play, suddenly that Fantastic 4 game doesn't look so bad.

I love how stupid everyone here is. It makes me feel... not so stupid. It's like we're all one big happy family of idiots. Satan bless Destructoid.

Bit harsh Mrplow8?

I would of put money on the Wii being the holder of this dubious honor. Im thinking EA here with its Harry Potter sims and Disney with its big movie tie-ins, and by Disney, I of course mean Pixar.

Confirmed: The PS3's cell processor makes even movie-based games better.

None here. Can't blame me for Prince of Persia. You can hold me responsible for the Uncharted movie though.

I thought it would have been Wii that bought the most of these pieces of shame on gaming like many others. I think the last movie tie in game I bought was Spiderman 2 on PS2. If it wasn't the last movie tie in game I bought must have been so bad that I removed all evidence of me buying it from my house and my brain. Thinking about it, that could be any movie tie in game...

@ BattyAdroit

Bait will catch more fish than positivity will.

In before Sexualchocolate.

I'm curious why they're so ambiguous about the console the movie games were purchased for, though maybe that's just not what they were trying to show so they left the data out. But the wording, even in the original Nielsen blog article, can't be taken to mean that the games were purchased for a PS3 from the data they show.

It could just as well be Dad buying Little Johnny "Cars Race-O-Rama" for the Wii or 360.

But it's really irrelevant since PS3 owners skew older and thus are more likely to have children 6-12 (the "sweet spot" for movie tie-ins according to the article) as well as more likely to be "affluent" (another group that over-indexed for movie games in the article).

@ace of knaves

As any basic statistics class will tell you, correlation does not neccessarily mean causation. As this Jim's article has so clearly decided to ignore, is the real meat of the Nielsen data analysis.

First lets begin with a direct quote for analysis from the NielsenWire article:
"Most notably from a demographic standpoint, households that purchased a movie-based video game skewed strongly towards families with kids, even when compared to the average video game buying household. In particular, households with kids ages 6-12 represent the “sweet spot” for these products by over indexing the highest for having made a movie-based video game purchase. Movie-game buying households also tend to be more affluent, with incomes of $70K or higher. And non-Caucasian households, particularly Hispanic and Asian, over indexed the most among ethnicities for movie-game purchases compared to average video game buying households."

-So we know from basic standpoint that Movie-game purchases come from households with higher average income.

So far this tells us, in a sense, that households with more disposable income and CHILDREN age 6-12 make these purchases. As an aside, I highly doubt children in the range 6-12 represent a majority of the rapant fanboyism Jim states to hate, but as I previously stated, correlation does not equal to causation, so let's assume that his thesis of why he hates ps3 fanboyism still stands.

Okay, the next paragraph for analysis now:
Examining the total amount spent on all video game software over the past two years revealed that the households purchasing a movie-based video game are heavy consumers of video games in general. In fact, those households spent nearly twice as much (index of 183) on the video game category overall than the average video game buying households.
-So now we know people who purchase movie video games, purchase a large amount of video games in general.

Nothing new here. Just common sense that people with more disposable income will inherently tend to purchase more products.

Okay, next paragraph for analysis:
When looking closer at the platform preference of these households, we find that households purchasing a movie-based game spend a larger proportion of their console video game expenditures on PlayStation platforms than the average video game buying households. PlayStation 3 in particular over indexes the most for this group. In terms of retail outlets, these consumers are slightly more likely to purchase a video game at a video game specialty store when compared to the average game buying household.
-What this says, in a roundabout way, is that households that purchase movie-based games are more likely to spend a larger proportion of their overall expenditure on the Playstation platform.
-This can be attributed to several 3rd source reasons such as console preference to price bias. As any basic marketing class will teach you, more affluent consumers will tend to attribute quality directly to price. Seeing as how Sony products, by nature, are overpriced, a basic consumer may possible attribute higher quality to these products and when given a preference may prefer purchasing for this platform.

All in all, this paragraph helps to establish this idea that "Sony Fanboys" are the primary supporters (financially through consumerism) of movie based videogames.

The final set of paragraphs offers possible rationale behind this data:
It stands to reason that households which purchase a movie-based video game would be avid consumers of DVDs in addition to video games, and the data examined suggests this theory holds true.

Two-thirds (67%) of all US households purchased a DVD in the past two years. While this proportion increases to 84.6% among all households that bought a video game during that same time period, the penetration of DVD purchasing is higher still among households that bought a movie-based video game at more than 9-in-10 (91.7%).

And not only are these households more likely to purchase DVDs, but on average they spend more on the overall DVD category per household as well. Households that purchased a movie-based video game spend nearly twice as much on the DVD category as the average DVD buying household.

So what does this final set of paragraphs state? Strong correlation between DVD purchases and Movie-themed game purchases. They provide very few raw statistics, typical nielsen fashion, and preform relatively poor statistical analysis, however, they do provide a pretty clear picture that.

1. Higher income families tend to purchase movie themed video games.
2. Householdds with Children age 6-12 tend to purchase movie themed video games
3. DVD purchase strongly correlate with the purchase of movie themed video games.
4. As a platform, the preference for Movie-themed video games appears to be the PS3 by an index factor of 16.

Let's provide a set of known facts:
Sony products cost the most
Microsoft products cost slightly less
Nintendo products cost the least

Sony has the most movie playing functionality (BD Region 1, DVD NTSC, Netflix)
Microsoft has the fairly good movie playing functionality (DVD NTSC and Netflix)
Nintendo has the weakest movie playing functionality (?)

ergo, Sony products will most likely be purchase by families with 1) Higher Income and 2) Prefer Movie functionality.

Thus fulfilling 2 of the 3 conditions of the observations of the dataset.

Let's stretch this further by stating a statistic that is not used in this study which is the proportion of households that own multiple consoles.

I don't have hard statistics, so let's go with a general assumptions that a majority own 2 of the 3 and the minority own only 1 or all 3. Now let's focus on the high income subset of this group. Based on general sales numbers its safe to assume that these families belong to the 2 of 3 or 3 of 3 group if they have children interested in this type of entertainment. It is safe to say that the PS3 is one of those consoles.

So in a family owning 3 of these consoles, when purchasing a movie based game, they are most likely willing to purchase the requisite game for the console with the highest perceived value through price. The price differential is not enough to cause product discrimination at this point and the supply is ample. Thus, the PS3 becomes the preferred platform for movie based games rather than "Damning evidence" (A deliberate trolling statement, but for the purposes of this post taken at face) of PS3 owners clearly supporting movie themed games. It's safer to say that consumers in general support movie-themed games and families are strong supporters of these games as the index is most strong in the group which has children age 6-12 (Hardly the group in which the likely game players would have primary control over purchasing decisions).

Jim, I applaud your ability to make posts which virtually contribute nothing more than merely posting a link to the article in a manner as such:

I hate PS3 fanboys. They are the worst. Movie-themed video games suck. A recent study shows that the PS3 supports movie-themed video games more than any other platform. This is daming and stunning evidence. See here: http://www.industrygamers.com/news/ps3-owners-buy-the-most-movie-games-says-nielsen/

Stay classy Jim, stay classy (This is bait, don't take it).

@ CblogRecaps

or that Wii owners are poor people with no children.

See I can play that game too.

@Rinsako
Confirmed: Asians and Hispanics like to play shitty movie games on their PS3s.

@Rinsako
So the tldr version is "i think it's dumb rich people with lots of kids and not ps3 fanboys"

Yeah, the PS3 sucks. It has no games. I wasted my money. Can we please just shut the fuck up guys. It is a great console.

@ odintal

basically, but I had to substantiate it.

I own two PS3s, so I'm doubly at fault. I'm sorry Jim.

@Rinsako
Thank you, and good night.

Thanks you guys.

Man, I own a ton of PS3 games, and not a single one is a movie-based game. Hell, not a single-one is based on a property from another medium, even.

Ya know Jim, maybe "PS3 fanboys" wouldn't be the bane of your existence if you weren't such a rabid anti-"PS3 fanboy" fanboy.

I can't tell you how much shit I catch at work for preferring a PS3 over the Xbox 360. Everyday, it's either snarky barely-within-earshot comments or co-workers flat-out telling me that my preferred system sucks. From where I'm sitting, there's absolutely no different in the quality of fanboys.

We all hate hornets. However, only idiots poke a hornet's nest with a stick.

Blatant sarcasm trolling is barely true trolling. Jim's having a joke, as per usual. Laugh or don't.