With Black Friday rapidly approaching, parents may want to get up early Friday morning to find deals, as a recent survey shows their kids are eyeing some wallet-stretching electronics this holiday season.
Across a multitude of electronic offerings, the Apple iPad leads all devices (31% interest in future purchase) among American kids ages 6-12. Apple’s iPod Touch is also popular choice among kids, generating similar levels of interest as computers.
The emerging technologies offered by Blu-Ray players and E-Readers also have good traction with teens and adults.
Beyond these products, gaming devices appear to be ready for another solid holiday showing. Console interest among ages 13+ is led by the Nintendo Wii (15%) and Sony PlayStation 3 (13%), which both maintain an edge over the Microsoft Xbox 360 (9%). Much has been made of new motion peripherals from Sony (Move for PlayStation 3) and Microsoft (Kinect for Xbox 360), and these gadgets garner sizeable interest (9% and 8%, respectively) – though of note, interest was gathered prior to Microsoft’s recent large-scale media campaign for Kinect, which launched in the U.S. on November 4.
If you read the not-so-recent article about Apple marketing strategies, you'll see how the statistics from this study and the one made at iPad's launch are perfectly adding up. Given the continued pressure on consumer spending, it is difficult to know how robust a holiday season this will be for tech devices, but this survey suggests the electronics aisle will be heavily traveled this season.
Source: The Nielsen Company
