Teens Think Xbox Is Cooler Than PlayStation, Study Finds

Gamespot reports.

A study commissioned by Google has found that teenagers find the Xbox brand "cooler" than they find PlayStation. That preference was switched in millennials, however, as 18-25 year olds thought Sony's gaming brand was cooler than Microsoft's.

According to the report, children aged 13-17 thought Xbox was the fourth coolest brand in the world, with PlayStation down in seventh. Top of that list was Google's own video streaming service, YouTube, with Netflix and Google's overall brand in No.2 and No.3, respectively.

Nintendo is seen to be less cool than Xbox and PlayStation among both millennial and teenagers, while EA Sports is even further behind, says the report. Additionally, VR and AR are seen as some of the coolest things in the world of technology, along with smartphones and iOS in particular.

Have you become the old man on his porch yelling for kids to get off his lawn and thinking the teenagers these days don't know what's right for them? Any teenagers in System Wars care to share your thoughts and whether you agree with the Google study?

Proof that teens are getting worse off as the years go by.

I kid, more power to them.

Working with teenagers that age in both of my jobs I can confirm.

Had to explain to a 17 year old what Tom and Jerry was a few days back.

I'm not old, but it makes you feel old.

Here come the old farts as they trying to assert their superiority.

Nothing beats Doritos and Mt. Dew....nothing

They also thought Google are cool...

I guess the company version of the NSA is really cool.

No wonder the X1 is flying off the shelves.

Big holiday season for scorpio?

Teenagers think you're old

You may not find your answer on here. The teens are probably all on reddit.

That gif from the TC is pure win.

I'm 26.

Which is basically 20, which is basically 18.

Well if it comes from adolescents with all their "years" of developed logical reasoning, it's gotta be true ??

Makes sense since a lot of those kids probably "grew up" playing the Xbox 360. That was the most popular console in America for the longest time. It undoubtedly had an effect on the younger, even more impressionable kids.

I feel the same, I'm not old but I feel old.

I had to explain to people who were only a few years younger than me what Bill and Ted was.

Are people shocked by this? The first Xbox arrived in 2001, and the Xbox 360 launched in 2006, so chances are, these kids played Xbox during the 2000s when they were growing up. To them, the Xbox brand is what the Playstation is to people who grew up in the late 90's and early 2000s, and Nintendo is to people who grew up in the 80s and early 90s.

Keep in mind, the 360 was very popular, and given the early struggles of the PS3 and the Wii's focus on old people and casual demographics, the 360 was what alot of these kids played.

So, teens grew up with the Xbox and likely have a loyalty to the brand, just like 30 years old likely have more loyalty to Nintendo because of them growing up with Nintendo and their IPs.

Nintendo's main player base is likely 30 years old like me who played NES, SNES, and N64 back in the day, Sony likely shifts downward but still aims for older demographics who played PS1 and PS2, and Xbox's main demographic is likely people 20 years old or younger who grew up with the brand.

This does not shock me, but does tell me that I'm a geezer compared to most of the people playing Xbox One.....

I was young and foolish once too. Then I built a PC.

(Copy/Paste what I said on that GS article)

This survey sounds about right on teens seeing Xbox brand as a cool thing to have. Back in my high school years, owning the first Xbox was the coolest thing on the block when Halo CE was still a thing, all the teenagers owning Xbox makes you look cool, even the Xbox 360. Teenagers were always talking about Xbox/Xbox 360 then they did for PS2/PS3 before I graduated high school. (2005)

Pretty much.

This doesn't surprise me one bit and it makes perfect logical sense when you think about it. People tend to have more affection for what they grew up with.

People that are currently aged 13 to 17 would have started gaming when the Xbox 360 was the most popular console in America so most of them probably started gaming with the Xbox 360 and therefore have more affection for the Xbox brand. Whereas the 18 to 25 year old demographic that thinks Playstation is cooler are in the age range that would have started gaming when the PS1 and PS2 were the most popular consoles which explains why that group has more affection for the Playstation brand. And then there are people like me in their 30s that started gaming when Nintendo was the most popular brand in video games and not surprisingly I tend to find that Nintendo's biggest group of fans are people in their 30s that grew up with Nintendo.

We're almost the same age, rounding up and down a little tiny bit.

Too bad they have little to no purchase power

Study is based in the US...

Makes sense, the Xbox is reasonably popular in the US/Canada.. but the Playstation is not far behind.

If you ask Japanese teens however...

How much rounding is a bit?

Tell us the story of the birth of electricity again, Uncle Hazy.

@zassimick: Sales say otherwise, though...

Ah the day that Zeus roared ... good times.

Tubular, man.

My assertion was correct.

Teens are clueless. MS propaganda works the best on them. If you're not a teen and think like them, something is dead wrong with you.

Playstation is totally nineties !

That wasn't that long ago. You weren't there when Prometheus stole fire from the Gods. Good times. I miss that fellow.

The other day i was reminded how old im i pointed a mistake in a movie and how back then people barely had cellphones the kid looked at me and laughed thinking i was being sarcastic.

@zassimick: Since it's a Google study i see it was done in the USA, but if it was done in Europe, Japan etc it would read Playstation. So unless this "study" was done globally then it's not really accurate, oh shit i forgot Merica is the world my bad, as you were :P

Nice clickbait title, Eddie would be proud, and he would be laughing at the same time as he gets paid for it and you don't lol.

But are sales cool? Or is the idea of cool cool?

Ouch. My pride...

The title was taken from the article itself, written by Oscar Dayus, not one that I came up with. I'm just sharing with System Wars as it seems like an artilcle that people might have an emotional response over. Seems like a number of people have had just that.

Not a surprise most lemmings are immature and childish with most of their arguments this explain why..lol

That would explain all the 13 year olds on Xbox Live that have had sex with my mother.

I don't care about what is cool. I care about what is best..... PC.

Alpha kids use PC.

Xbox is probably what all teens know that is popular or grew up with. The Xbox 360 was clearly popular. Right now the Xbox One is less popular than the Xbox 360.

Please explain to me how owning a certain console is more "cool" then owning the other?Or maybe I'm to dense or missing out on something?By the way,I am an old man,43 years old.

Teen ... xbox ... USA ...

It was obvious but even with Xbox being cool, it still dead last

Finally, an actual old man like me. This thread full of thirty somethings pretending that they are old is making me feel damned old!

Even when I was a teen I could not stand other teens.

No wonder Xbone is failing.

Teens know best, I guess...

@zassimick said:

Gamespot reports.

A study commissioned by Google has found that teenagers find the Xbox brand "cooler" than they find PlayStation. That preference was switched in millennials, however, as 18-25 year olds thought Sony's gaming brand was cooler than Microsoft's.

According to the report, children aged 13-17 thought Xbox was the fourth coolest brand in the world, with PlayStation down in seventh. Top of that list was Google's own video streaming service, YouTube, with Netflix and Google's overall brand in No.2 and No.3, respectively.

Nintendo is seen to be less cool than Xbox and PlayStation among both millennial and teenagers, while EA Sports is even further behind, says the report. Additionally, VR and AR are seen as some of the coolest things in the world of technology, along with smartphones and iOS in particular.

Have you become the old man on his porch yelling for kids to get off his lawn and thinking the teenagers these days don't know what's right for them? Any teenagers in System Wars care to share your thoughts and whether you agree with the Google study?

The results would different in Japan.

Windows PC gaming has China.

Xbox One is tracking Xbox 360 sale rate.

That chart isn't from MS get official data or get out hypocrite because for the PS3 you wanted to pretend that its sales stopped at 80 millions.