Interesting report on gamespot:
http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6083688.html
An extract:
a.. Online gaming and broadband support drive console sales. Over one third
of respondents expressed strong interest in console based online gaming.
a.. However, gamers still prefer to go it alone. Despite interest in playing
against others in an online environment, gaming remains largely a solitary
activity and games that rely on social interaction have a relatively narrow
addressable market. Over 73 percent of respondents claim to play games alone
almost always or most of the time, and only 2 percent claim that they never
play alone.
This sums up the XBOX for me, I got Live a few weeks back and haven't really
got into it. I love the single player games though.
Jammy.