Humdinger
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At the risk of annoying people with yet another poll on this subject, I figured it might be worthwhile to get another read on GAF's preferences, now that both Sony and Microsoft have had their big reveals.
The previous pattern has been for the preferences to hover around 2 to 1 in favor of PS5, but preferences have shifted rather significantly after some of the reveals, so it might be interesting to see if anything has shifted, now that both companies have had their major console reveals.
Previous polling (in terms of preference ratio, PS to Xbox):
Dec. 23, 2019 (before any spec reveals): 2.25 to 1 (657 votes)
March 19, 2020 (after both tech reveals, right after Cerny's talk): 1.54 to 1 (473 votes), big dip presumably attributable to initial backlash over Cerny's talk
March 30, 2020 (11 days later, after dust settled and some additional info came out about PS5 tech): 2.22 to 1 (513 votes), ratio rebounding to pre tech-reveal levels.
April 9, 2020 (10 days after that, nothing much had happened in the interim): 2 to 1 (578), with some different poll options.
[We don't have any good GAF poll after Sony's reveal in June, but before MS's reveal, so it's hard to gauge the impact of that event. There was a poll on 7/6, but I'm not including it here, because it was focused on the secondary issue of whether people were getting the digital editions, had very different poll options, and got only 1/4 the votes of these other polls, so it isn't comparable to these polls.]
Current poll, July 25, 2020 (after both companies have had their big console reveals, and specifically two days after the MS reveal): 3.35 to 1, with 668 votes.
The previous pattern has been for the preferences to hover around 2 to 1 in favor of PS5, but preferences have shifted rather significantly after some of the reveals, so it might be interesting to see if anything has shifted, now that both companies have had their major console reveals.
Previous polling (in terms of preference ratio, PS to Xbox):
Dec. 23, 2019 (before any spec reveals): 2.25 to 1 (657 votes)
March 19, 2020 (after both tech reveals, right after Cerny's talk): 1.54 to 1 (473 votes), big dip presumably attributable to initial backlash over Cerny's talk
March 30, 2020 (11 days later, after dust settled and some additional info came out about PS5 tech): 2.22 to 1 (513 votes), ratio rebounding to pre tech-reveal levels.
April 9, 2020 (10 days after that, nothing much had happened in the interim): 2 to 1 (578), with some different poll options.
[We don't have any good GAF poll after Sony's reveal in June, but before MS's reveal, so it's hard to gauge the impact of that event. There was a poll on 7/6, but I'm not including it here, because it was focused on the secondary issue of whether people were getting the digital editions, had very different poll options, and got only 1/4 the votes of these other polls, so it isn't comparable to these polls.]
Current poll, July 25, 2020 (after both companies have had their big console reveals, and specifically two days after the MS reveal): 3.35 to 1, with 668 votes.
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