Nielsen: gaming takes back seat on PS3

This is what Sony wanted to accomplish from the very beginning, apart from promoting the bluray format. It didn't go exactly as planned apparently but in the end they made it.

I can't remember the last time I played a game on my PS3 but I use it to stream videos from my PC to my TV all the time, it works great for that.

Sony doesn't care, as long as people are still using the system. I use it mainly for gaming and the rare movie/TV episode during downtime. But it's still probably the best gaming system since... well, the PS2.

iv'e never streamed anything with my PS3 .i use my PC for home theater....

PS3 owners obviously don't make a habit of playing mediocre online shooters that are about as complex as a PC shooter that came out in 2000 every single day. (Halo, Call of Duty)

Also, Blu-Ray player. That's why a lot of people initially bought a PS3 to begin with. Then you factor in the fact that the year is currently 2013. PS3 owners don't use ancient technology to watch movies anymore. They use the Blu-Ray player that came with their game system.

I mostly use my PS2 for gaming and PS3 for Netflix.

Maybe it's because 8-year old 360 owners spend the other 87% of the time playing Call of Duty.

So this statistics is based on around 2,500 people? What about the other 70 something million other users? this article is trash. 

All this tell's me is that the PS3 has the better streaming services so most likely other console owner's may have bought it due to that. I have a nearly full friends list and everyone of them that gets online regularly is always playing a game so you would think if it was 46% that out of nearly 100 people a couple of them would be watching something every now and then. 

They also need to tackle the question, when watching movie's is it when a game you want to play is out or is it only after you've finished playing the game's you want. I know I stream alot of stuff on my PS3 but it's only during the slow season when nothing is coming out and only after I've completed my backlog. I think since with streaming always having something to watch year round and gaming only having major title's for in the start of the year and end of the year it leaves that huge gap in between that is filled with mostly streaming stuff unless you have a broad taste in games or like playing older games or possibly replaying completed title's.

I hate this article! How is 46% of its entire usage taking a back seat? When compared to absalutely everything else the console does it falls slightly below the 50% mark. But when compared to each thing individually it is the biggest individual number. It's just plain silly!

Most people are looking at this as a news article that says 'Hey, Xbox is the casual-friendly one, but look! PlayStation owners play even less games!', which is a bad perception, to say the least. The only thing this proves is that PlayStation provides better streaming services than their competitors. I tend to do all of my streaming, be it YouTube or Netflix, on my PS3, for two reasons.

One, the UI doesn't completely suck. Xbox's new Kinect-friendly UI across ALL apps is so atrocious it makes me want to puke. The crappy A-to-Z on-screen 'keyboard' would be fine if they, like PlayStation's YouTube app, made it so that it provided some sort of recommendations based on the letter you just pressed.. but nope. Microsoft really wants you to buy a Kinect, so they make doing everything with a controller unbearable. Ugh.

Two, any time I use any streaming service, it looks miles better on my PlayStation, and seems to use no more bandwidth than my Xbox would. This holds true across every app that is available on both consoles, at least from my perspective.

HOWEVER, does any of this mean I don't PLAY GAMES on my PLAYStation? Absolutely not, I know for a fact that I spend more time gaming on my PS3 than my X360.

While 360 fanboys will be quick explain this as, "PS3 has no gaems!", all it really means is that Sony is accomplishing one of Microsoft's own goals, which is to become an entire living room entertainment hub and not just a gaming console.

Hate to say it, but my PS3 has been a Blu-ray player since I finished Uncharted 3. Almost all of my gaming is on 360 with PC far behind that. Very much looking forward to The Last of Us though.

Well I am not one of those. In fact, the first time I have ever watched a DVD on my PS3 was when I popped in Game of Thrones Season 2 about 2+ weeks ago. The only other thing I use it for besides games is watching por.....cupines.

this explains the very low sales of PS3 exclusive and many many ps3 fanboys always in GS taking shoots at MS articles and not buying and playing games

Figures that Netflix is being used on my PS3 right now, but normally it's only on for games.

This is old news! Study after study has shown more games are actully played on the 360 than the wii or ps3. Just look at the NUMBER 1 gamers on Xbox live vs ps3. On xbox they have around 30,000 achievments. on ps3. only around 15,000. Even the top gamers game more on xbox. 

It's funny... Microsoft is the one investing the most in non-game content and they're the ones with the least amount of people using those services.

I love people bragging about how THEY only play games on their consoles.  It's like those assholes you know at work who brag about how they don't watch TV and never let their kids use the internet.

This isn't surprising.  I too spend more time using my PS3 to stream anime or whatever from a media server being run on my PC.  Can't do that on the 360.  Can't do that on the Wii.

This is why the PS3 is the best console and was never overpriced - it does so much more than games.

This is sad to hear for me. Almost all of my friends on PSN hardly play games, most of the time they're on Netflix. I'm the only one I know of who hasn't used gaming consoles for anything but games. Not even movies.

Cinavia ruined media playback (on uploaded videos)

is it me or is Sony skin colors for the PS3 actions exactly like when Nintendo came out with all does colors for the N64? 

although netflix isnt the top used device on my friends list according to my xbl beacon stats (black ops ii would have that honor) it does come in second and even before bo2 came out, its always consistently ranked 1 or 2 on the list. i wouldnt be surprised if most people that own only wii's primarily use their console as a means to stream netflix content as well.

I primarily use my ps3 as a netflix device while I don't use my xbox anymore at all.

that's the main reason i sold mine it was all i had at the time i don't think ill get another one till the psn is offline i always found my self worrying about syncing trophy's and netflix hardly ever updates there stuff i just got tired of it

ps3 is the No1 most used netflix device in the world and the only console to have Bluray the hd standard so this can be expected 

Since we mainly use it for media and blu-ray I suppose that there would be no justification for me to purchase a PS4. 

not true, cows spends there majority of the time in system war talking about games they pretended they played

Sounds right to me. I bought mine as a bluray player and that's still its main use. I play plenty of games, but on the Xbox or PC. A bunch of my friends bought PS3s after one of the big price drops and many of them don't even own games for it.

My PS3 usually collects dust.

Well, they did try to sell PS3 as a media device over gaming at the begining of the generation.  Similar to what MS will probably do with the next xbox.  Sony id going 'games' on PS4 but I think they still want it to be a media center for the living room.