Amazing results from a Wii Poll
Aug 17, 2007 in Commentary
OK, I just wanted to post this up here real quick. Me and the wife take part in Wii Polls which is this nifty little feature of the Nintendo Wii which allows you and many other owners of Wiis to answer poll questions about many different things. As near as I can tell the questions are not able to be used for sale to data mining companies which are attempting to figure out my generation so they can sell products to us, as the questions don’t seem to be too revealing, but it is very interesting to see all the different answers as they then provide the poll results to you. Most of the polls are on a national scale but some are world-wide and it is of one of these world-wide polls that I am writing.
This past poll question was, “Is this the TV your looking at right now a Wide-Screen TV or not?”. Why am I mentioning this? you may ask. Well, the results were quite astonishing as far as Jess and I were concerned.
Now, barring the fact that this is a question asked to owners of the Wii (which obviously will skew the results quite a bit), I was fully expecting that the country with the highest rate of Wide-Screen-TV ownership would easily be the U.S. I mean, come on, we have a reputation that would match that, no? Well, here are the results.
- United Kingdom
- Finland
- Japan
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Italy
- Ireland
- Luxembourg
- Belgium
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Denmark
- Greece
- Portugal
- Spain
- France
- Australia
- Peru
- Austria
- United States
- New Zealand
- Germany
- Colombia
- Venezuela
- Canada
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Panama
- Guatemala
Now what I want you to notice is the location of the United States and the countries that precede it. Countries like Peru, Greece, Ireland… What’s the deal? Anyway, I was so surprised by how far down we were that I just had to publish it. Hope other people find this as interesting as I did.
