It would be enough to gauge large failure rates. eg. If one goes by the Amazon reviews, 2:1 good to bad, that suggests a third of PS4's failing. A poll of ten respondents would definitely be large enough to catch that percentage, as 2, 3 or 4 people should have a dead PS4. If the failure rate is 5%, you'd need a larger sample base. The VGCharts forum is probably fairly indicative as it won't be self selecting, unlike Amazon reviews. I can well believe 3% failure rate could result in a 2:1 good:bad review rate on Amazon given the psychology of the product and reviews. A poll, any poll, that asks all users for results, would be a zillion times better than trying to guess the situation from Amazon reviews!
It would be enough to gauge large failure rates. eg. If one goes by the Amazon reviews, 2:1 good to bad, that suggests a third of PS4's failing. A poll of ten respondents would definitely be large enough to catch that percentage, as 2, 3 or 4 people should have a dead PS4. If the failure rate is 5%, you'd need a larger sample base. The VGCharts forum is probably fairly indicative as it won't be self selecting, unlike Amazon reviews. I can well believe 3% failure rate could result in a 2:1 good:bad review rate on Amazon given the psychology of the product and reviews. A poll, any poll, that asks all users for results, would be a zillion times better than trying to guess the situation from Amazon reviews!
Good gravy, not you as well?! Does every internet connected device track everything about you? Yes. That's a given. Could Sony spy on you with their camera? Yes. And the microphone voice recognition? Fer shure. Do you have to have the camera connected and watching and listening and the console connected to the internet to play any game? No. That was the (rather ridiculous) complaints levied against the competition - that there was no defence against the data mining. With these aspects being optional on PS4 (and now XB1, at least regards internet connectivity), people aren't outraged by them, and they'll quietly use the features without giving them a second thought and let the data miners and US government merrily observe their game-playing, safe in the subconscious-and-never-acted-upon knowledge that at any time they can disconnect from the internet and still play their games.
No, to be outraged they would have to be forum warriors with an axe to grind, or people from the other camp looking for attention. There's no such posters on B3D.
It wasn't faux outrage. It was genuine, if misplaced. "My god, this camera can be spying on me and there's nothing I can do to stop it if I want to play games!" Which was true. Change that to, "Well, they may want to spy on me, but I'll just disconnect from the internet. Ha!" and few would have been up in arms. The people who were outraged were making probably a very big deal out of a very small issue in real terms, but it was fundamentally different to other devices where there wasn't any option to disconnect from the US government's spy network. That's why we don't see the same arm waving panic when we hear of other machines and services providing targeted ads and the like, because everyone has the choice to circumvent them, moving the power back to the consumer (not that they'll exercise it).