March 13^th, 2002 (12:00am) - A Japanese survey conducted by Nikkei IT regarding Microsoft’s Xbox has yielded some surprising results. Over a month-long period the study surveyed 1378 people, 95 percent of which were male. Of those surveyed, 76 percent described themselves as avid game players who have purchased two or more game consoles already. Below is a specific breakdown by question and results from the survey.

Question: Xbox costs 34800 yen, is that too high?

Yes - 68%
No - 21%
Unsure - 11%

Question: Do you plan to purchase Xbox?

Yes - 21%
No - 57%
Unsure - 22%

Question: If you want to purchase an Xbox, which of the following have influenced your decision (multiple responses allowed)?

Most Efficient - 75%
Broadband - 59%
Software - 54%
DVD Playback - 24%
Microsoft Brand - 23%
Other Reasons - 14%
Design - 13%

Question: If you don’t want to purchase an Xbox, which of the following have influenced your decision (multiple responses allowed)?

Poor Software - 56%
Prefer Other Consoles - 55%
Poor Design - 47%
Microsoft Brand - 37%
Other Reasons - 19%
Poor Performance - 9%

Question: What other capabilities would you like to see on Xbox?

Nothing - 46%
Windows PC Compatibility - 29%
Other Console Compatibility - 24%
Keyboard/Mouse - 15%
Others - 10%

Question: What Xbox capabilities do you think are unnecessary?

Nothing - 68%
Hard disk - 15%
Broadband - 14%
DVD - 13%
Others - 7%

Question: What other game consoles do you own?

PlayStation 2 - 68%
PSone - 66%
Dreamcast - 39%
Others - 39%
GameBoy Advance - 31%
Nintendo 64 - 26%
Gamecube - 17%
None - 5%

Question: On an average day, how long do you play games?

Less than 1 hour - 57%
1-2 Hours - 28%
2-3 Hours - 8%
3-4 Hours - 3%
4+ Hours - 3%

Question: Gender?

Male - 95%
Female - 5%

Question: Age?

Less than 19 - 9%
20-29 - 49%
30-39 - 33%
40-49 - 7%
50-59 - 1%
60-69 - 1%

Question: Occupation?

Office Worker - 58%
Student - 21%
Self-employed - 6%
Part-time Worker - 5%
Others - 5%
Unemployed - 3%
Manager - 1%
Housewife - 1%