5/30/2005 2:01:51 PM | Other |
According To IGN Gamermetrics Anticipation For Playstation 3 Crawls Above Xbox 360
Despite coming out of the gate after the significant excitement about the Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation3 surprised some by garnering the lion's share of interest in the console war. IGN Entertainment's GamerMetrics, a leading videogame business intelligence tool analyzing awareness, engagement, and purchase intent of more than 20 million gamers, showed that the PlayStation3 and Xbox 360 were the buzz of the show, enjoying a more than 60% mindshare among the network's 2.1 million daily unique visitors.
The major industry announcements of Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 engaged IGN's audiences at record numbers, generating more than 35 million page views on May 17. IGN Entertainment, the leading gaming information network reaches an audience of more than 24 million unique users.
According to GamerMetrics, the top 5 games of E3 2005 were:
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Published by Nintendo for GameCube
- Metal Gear Solid 4, Published by Konami for PlayStation3
- Killzone, Published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation3
- Devil May Cry 4, Published by Capcom for PlayStation3
- Vision GT, Published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation3
The top 5 platforms, listed by mindshare were:
- Sony PlayStation3 34%
- Microsoft Xbox 360 28%
- Nintendo Game Cube 17%
- Sony PlayStation2 10%
- PC 5%
Over the five days of E3, IGN.com and GameSpy editors:
- covered more than 1,120 different games
- wrote more than 3,800 articles
- offered up almost 18,000 E3 images
- uploaded more than 2,200 videos
Users posted more than 450,000 messages on the IGN boards in the five days of
E3 and 7,337,052 video features were served.
According To IGN Gamermetrics Anticipation For Playstation 3 Crawls Above Xbox 360
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