GameFAQs Contests

swirIdude posted...

On the other hand, more Pokemon means fewer LoL characters in the contest.

They only need one.

So that new game seems to have gone well for Kratos.

Does he beat Jill this time if they have another rematch!?

Well, "I got a new game" didn't go so well for Ocelot against Jill.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2868-division-2-round-1-cloud-jill-zolom-ocelot
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3275-division-8-round-1-heavy-jill-kratos-ocelot

well Ocelot is a special circumstance

Liquid appeared to boost from MGS4 while Ocelot did not

Banjo-Kazooie finished with a playrate of 56.43% in the playrate poll from a few days ago. I finally got around to updating the Wiki page for playrate.

https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Have_You_Played

As for the "Got Console?" polls, the 3DS has increased its ownership to an all-time high of 73.80%. After the 3DS's ownership went down in the previous poll and the Switch already out, it was thought that the 3DS wouldn't be able to increase its ownership any farther. Despite the presence of the Switch, ownership for the 3DS actually went up again.

With the most recent PS4 poll, the PS4 has finally surpassed the PS3's all-time highest ownership mark and looks to be in excellent position to break 70% ownership in the future. The PS4's ownership is now up to 69.65% ownership.

The Switch's ownership also went up to 50.36%. Breaking 50% ownership happened 16 months after the launch date, where as the Wii broke 50% ownership in just 8 months. It took twice as long for the Switch to reach 50% ownership despite an overall better game library at this point in both system's life cycles. Though the Switch is $50 more than the Wii and the games $10 more, but even that can't fully explain the better early success of the Wii compared to the Switch despite the Switch having the game library advantage.

Ownership results spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iMtyUuzmT5ggmYy-xbiGf7fcloXuhkQuu4ZIC2nGI4M/pub

Probably a largely different user base on GameFAQs these days, plus back when the Wii released the 360 and PS3 were significantly more recent, with the 360 not really gelling as much with the GameFAQs base even then and the PS3 having a lot of negative hype and a high price tag. Meanwhile, the Switch has to compete with a highly successful PS4 that's had a few years to get popular and become the console of choice for its gen while avoiding the major controversies the PS3 had.

We might be looking at a contest announcement soon, because Allen finally got around to converting the poll results pages from the 2015 contest into the standard PotD results page as seen here:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6051-

Not_Wylvane posted...

Probably a largely different user base on GameFAQs these days, plus back when the Wii released the 360 and PS3 were significantly more recent, with the 360 not really gelling as much with the GameFAQs base even then and the PS3 having a lot of negative hype and a high price tag. Meanwhile, the Switch has to compete with a highly successful PS4 that's had a few years to get popular and become the console of choice for its gen while avoiding the major controversies the PS3 had.

Also, the average age of the site's users back in 2006 was around 19.50, so we still had a substantial part of our user base still under 18 at the time. And when you're under 18, it's much easier to talk your parents into buying a new game system (the Wii in this case) where as that would be harder for someone over 18 still living with their parents. Another thing is that we may have grown too old at this point to really get hyped up for a new game system like the Wii did at a time when we were much younger.

I don't really think older people aren't hyped up anymore, seeing as how SSB Ultimate has been received since the very first Nintendo Direct. SSBU may not be as hyped as Brawl was (that was HUGE back then), but it's definitely more hyped than SSB4, so I think that's a good factor to take a console's ownership numbers into account (Smash being an obvious console-seller).

Yes, I know the Switch has already had some pretty strong games, but if we want to have a better picture, we need to look at the overall sales. How big is the overall Switch ownership status compared to the Wii's (that is, worldwide sales)?

The Switch sold more units in its first year than the Wii did. The Switch sold nearly 15 million units in its first year, while the Wii sold around 13.5 million in its first year. Looking at the worldwide sales is useless here, because it doesn't translate to a system's success on this website. The Switch had better first year sales than the Wii, but the Switch ends up with a lower ownership than the Wii on GameFAQs after 1 year.

And yes, SSB4 wasn't very hyped compared to Brawl or SSBU, but that was a direct result of the Wii U's poor start and lack of hype for the Wii U. Being on the Wii U was the thing that basically killed the hype for SSB4.

SSB4 had some solid reveal trailers though.

I was hyped every direct to see the potential reveal trailer.

LeonhartFour posted...

well Ocelot is a special circumstance

Liquid appeared to boost from MGS4 while Ocelot did not

Well it was LIQUID Ocelot. People were smart enough to vote for the right character despite appearances.

unless they beat the game

Xbox One ownership goes up to 27.15%, only a 0.09% increase from the previous high. It's still too early at this point to say for sure what kind of impact Microsoft's strong showing at E3 this year will affect Xbox One ownership. Those who are still open to getting an Xbox One probably wouldn't buy one this soon after E3, so the impact might not be visible until next year.

iPhone ownership increases to 25.05%, while Android ownership has a fairly large boost to finish at 61.84%. Unlike ownership for consoles and dedicated portables, ownership of smartphones isn't tied to a growing library of games. The rise of smartphones has led to non-smartphones being far less commonplace, with non-smartphones under threat of extinction in the future although non-smartphones are still being produced (though not widely advertised in mobile phone stores anymore). There will likely be a point where Android ownership finally reaches a stabilization point, but most of Android's gains will come from stealing percentage from the non-smartphone option (currently at 6.40%).

Vita ownership decreases to 36.69%, the second straight poll of an ownership decline. This seems to be the end for the Vita, with Sony having long abandoned their first-party support of the system. While PSP was able to break 50% ownership during its life cycle, it was partially driven by the homebrew scene, which the Vita doesn't have. Vita does not appear to have any chance of breaking 40% ownership at this point now.

Updated ownership spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iMtyUuzmT5ggmYy-xbiGf7fcloXuhkQuu4ZIC2nGI4M/pub

Pretty sad news for the XONE and specially the Vita. Both had a lot of potential, but the one with more wasted potential is the Vita.

Advokaiser posted...

Pretty sad news for the XONE and specially the Vita. Both had a lot of potential, but the one with more wasted potential is the Vita.

Vita was ahead of its time

Has the Wii U ownership rate always been this high? Over 50% for it here seems...crazy.

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Not_Wylvane posted...

Has the Wii U ownership rate always been this high? Over 50% for it here seems...crazy.

It's the early vote inflating the Wii U ownership. The night vote wasn't very kind towards the Wii U (poor ownership in Europe and Asia) and the Wii U has since fallen below 50% ownership.

Bump

I dreamt a GameFAQs contest started and the format was games vs games with six choices per poll. As soon as the first match ended, we swapped to a characters contest and found out we would be alternating each day.

I recall Link and Rinoa being in the first match and that a Rinoa rally was very possible because of her Dissidia reveal.

It's fun having contest dreams. I've had those a few times. Last ones I recall were during BGE 2015 and BYIG (funnily enough, I don't seem to [usually] have them before or after a contest). I remember dreaming I was on a subway train (before 2003 vs. 2005 happened irl) and thinking how much I regretted picking 2005 advancing; then it lost as I predicted.

yeah I've had dreams about contests before too

that's usually the only way I get to experience them anymore

i have had tons of dreams about contests for more than a decade

i'm not ashamed, these contests and this board defined a ton of my developmental years

i blame you all for what i have become

Have you had dreams of ZenOfThunder contest writeups?

All hail SNESfaqs.

30% ownership rate, not bad.

All-time ownership poll for the NES today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7142-

what a loaded POTD

If FF can't win here, ouch.

it might win now

Final Fantasy did not win.

the story of the last 13 years

Zelda finished with 50.51% on Final Fantasy in yesterday's poll (50.99% in the 2006 Series Contest). Granted, yesterday's poll did have SMB present in the poll which could have LFFed Zelda, so an actual 1v1 poll today would probably be a few percentage points higher (maybe 53-54%).

I can't imagine FF winning when you compare XV's lukewarm reception to BotW's almost universal praise.

pjbasis posted...

I can't imagine FF winning when you compare XV's lukewarm reception to BotW's almost universal praise.

This as well.

FFXV isn't the problem, the whole FFXIII series almost killed the series!

Zylothewolf posted...

FFXV isn't the problem, the whole FFXIII series almost killed the series!

Eh but XII was decent. FFXV may not be the problem but it sure as hell didn't help anything.

Having to argue over which FF game killed the series demonstrates the point very well - multiple games possibly killed the series, while Breath of the Wild revitalized the Zelda series.

FF is run by hilariously incompetent f***heads, Zelda isn't, so I can see why it happened

swirIdude posted...

Having to argue over which FF game killed the series demonstrates the point very well - multiple games possibly killed the series, while Breath of the Wild revitalized the Zelda series.

Not that Zelda was dieing but Skyward Sword was pretty bad.

BotW gave nintendo the ability to make the next zelda game garbage and get a free pass (even though I'm sure it'll be great)

pjbasis posted...

I can't imagine FF winning when you compare XV's lukewarm reception to BotW's almost universal praise.

excuse me

I think you mean GameFAQs GOTY FFXV

XIII_rocks posted...

FF is run by hilariously incompetent f***heads, Zelda isn't, so I can see why it happened

Literally backwards on this opinion.

Eh I think they're both kind of run by f***heads but they managed to stumble onto something worthwhile in Zelda.

swirIdude posted...

Having to argue over which FF game killed the series demonstrates the point very well - multiple games possibly killed the series, while Breath of the Wild revitalized the Zelda series.

Just like how the prequels killed Star Wars, and then The Last Jedi apparently killed Star Wars again!

Good thing game developers don't antagonize their fans in the same way.

Different series tend to have different levels of tolerance. Like the Sonic fanbase seems to have an endless amount of patience while Mass Effect was nearly killed by a single game.

Mass Effect was nearly killed by one game and then put into a coma by the next.

Team Rocket Elite posted...

Different series tend to have different levels of tolerance. Like the Sonic fanbase seems to have an endless amount of patience while Mass Effect was nearly killed by a single game.

The Sonic fanbase having an endless amount of patience, is probably more like Sonic is a recognizable brand that will sell on that basis alone. The series will never be killed short of putting out a long string of games widely recognized as garbage-tier at a time, which doesn't seem to have happened yet.

Stuff like this makes me admire these game companies even more, that they've had to deal with "toxic" fanbases for their products and yet they move on quickly while anyone involved with movies who has to deal with similar fandoms immediately melts down.

Sonic had a good run until 2006 happened, and even then he's had the occasional good game since, like Generations or Mania, plus the hedgehog is a gaming icon of what many consider a golden age of gaming in one of gaming's greatest rivalries.

Mass Effect had two good games before its backlash happened and it's owned by EA. It never had a chance.

which is ironic because 2006 was probably Sonic's best contest showing

as a member of the sonic fanbase i will wait until the sun dies for the next good sonic game

it's coming

i believe