Monday, 11 November 2013

iPad 2 tops our all-time list of tablets, phablets and smartphones - will the iPad Air better it?

Here's another snippet from our series of Harris Buzz reports, this time looking at our all-time list of excitement for tablets, phablets and smartphones.

Apple dominates the top of the list, but interesting to see the rather old (but still available) iPad 2 ahead of more recent releases. Maybe Apple needs to do a little more than release a quicker, thinner iteration, as I suggested in a previous post.


We'll be measuring the buzz for the new iPad Air in the next edition of Harris Buzz, released later this month.





% of GB public aged 16-64 excited about this
iPad 2  29%
iPhone 5  25%
The New iPad  25%
iPad   24%
iPhone 5S/5C  21%
4G UK 21%
iPhone 4S  21%
Samsung Galaxy S4 unveil 20%
Windows 7 Mobile  20%
iPhone 4  20%
iPad Mini  19%
Kindle Fire UK  19%
Samsung Galaxy Note  19%
UK’s first 4G network  19%
Amazon Kindle Fire  19%
Nexus 7 tablet  18%
Samsung Galaxy S3  18%
Nokia E7 smartphone  17%
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play  17%
Microsoft Surface preview  16%
BlackBerry PlayBook  16%
Samsung Galaxy Tab  16%
Samsung Galaxy Note 3  15%
HTC One launched  15%
Apple iCloud  15%
Nokia/MS partnership  15%
Samsung smartwatch  13%
Apple iOS7  13%
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 unveiled 13%
Microsoft Surface launched 13%
Apple Siri software  13%
Samsung curved screens 12%
Tesco launch Hudl tablet  12%
BlackBerry 10 revealed  12%
Optimus 4X HD  12%
Nokia Lumia launched  12%
HP TouchPad  12%
Motorola Xoom  12%
Xperia Z1 goes on sale  11%
Nexus 4  11%
HTC One unveiled  11%
Nexus 10  11%
HTC Flyer tablet  11%
Microsoft buy Nokia  10%
Lumia 920  10%
Roaming costs capped  10%
Nokia 808 revealed  10%
KitKat Android  9%
Nokia Lumia 925 slim  8%
Sony unveils Xperia Z  8%
Sony "touchless" display  8%
Nokia Lumia 1020  7%
HP Slate 7  6%
Dell Streak 6%
Huawei Ascend P6  5%
O2 Tu Go app  5%

GTA V tops our all-time Excitement Buzz list for video games

Rockstar's mega-selling GTA V tops our all-time excitement list from the last 33 monthly Harris Buzz reports.



We regularly include the latest video games in our series of Harris Buzz reports - it's never an exhaustive measure of what's been released but we do our best to include the latest and greatest. And all the games are measured as close to the release date as possible.

The table below shows all the games (and gaming news) we've included over the last 3 years.

Due for release later this month, the next issue of Buzz includes Call of Duty: Ghosts and Battlefield 4. Will these topple GTA V from the top of the list?
Harris Buzz Excitement % of GB public aged 16-64 excited about this
Grand Theft Auto V 22% Rockstar
Sony PS4 announced  22% Sony
Nintendo 3DS  22% Nintendo
Xbox Kinect 22% Xbox
Xbox One announced  21% Xbox
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 21% Activision
Call of Duty: Black Ops 20% Activision
PlayStation Vita released 19% Sony
PlayStation 4 price £349  18% Sony
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 18% Activision
FIFA 14 16% EA
FIFA 13 16% EA
Nintendo unveil ‘Wii U’  16% Nintendo
LA Noire 16% Rockstar
Portal 2 16% Valve
Nintendo Wii U launch  15% Nintendo
Assassin’s Creed III 15% Ubisoft
Resident Evil: Retribution 15% Capcom
Wii U console revealed  15% Nintendo
Battlefield 3 15% EA
Nintendo  ‘3DS XL’ released 14% Nintendo
Kinect: Star Wars 14% Xbox
Resident Evil 6 trailer  14% Capcom
Kinect for PCs launch  14% Xbox
Fable III 14% Lionhead
PlayStation Vita unveiled  14% Sony
Tomb Raider 13% Square Enix
Need for Speed 13% EA
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games 13% SEGA
Game chain bust  13% Game
Batman: Arkham City 13% Warner Bros Interactive
Crysis 2 13% EA
Halo: Reach 13% Bungie/Microsoft
Xbox One price £429  12% Xbox
Halo 4 12% Microsoft
Hitman: Absolution 12% Square Enix
Resident Evil 6 12% Capcom
Microsoft SmartGlass revealed 12% Xbox
Mass Effect 3 12% EA
FIFA 12 12% EA
Homefront 12% THQ
Microsoft Xbox digital DRM U-turn  11% Xbox
BioShock Infinite 11% 2K
SimCity 11% EA
Far Cry 3 11% Ubisoft
Sleeping Dogs 11% Square Enix
Max Payne 3 11% Rockstar
Fallout: New Vegas 11% Bethesda
Star Trek 10% Namco Bandai
New Super Mario game 10% Nintendo
PlayStation 3 slimmed  10% Sony
Darksiders ll 10% THQ
Guild Wars 2 10% NCSoft
Microsoft Xbox Music launched 10% Xbox
Gears of War 3 10% Microsoft
Sony Move launched 10% Sony
Nintendo 2DS launched 9% Nintendo
The Last of Us 9% Naughty Dog
Defiance series/game  9% Trion
Gears of War: Judgement 9% Microsoft
Crysis 3 9% EA
Football Manager ‘13 9% SEGA
Madden NFL 13 9% EA
Diablo 3 9% Blizzard
Rage 9% Bethesda
Sonic the Hedgehog 20 years anniversary 9% SEGA
Steam (gaming service)  9% Valve
Saints Row IV 8% Deep Silver
Rayman Legends  8% Ubisoft
Ouya console unveiled  8% Ouya
NBA 2K14 7% 2K
Total War: Rome II 7% SEGA
Marvel Heroes 7% Secret Identity
Devil May Care 7% Capcom
Nintendo Land 7% Nintendo
PS All-Star Battle Royale 7% Sony
Dishonored 7% Bethesda
Deus Ex: Human Revolution 7% Square Enix
Grid 2 6% Codemasters
nVidia game device unveiled 6% nVidia
Disney Infinity 5% Disney
Remember Me 5% Capcom
NBA 2K13 5% 2K
Company of Heroes 2  4% SEGA
World of Warcraft free  4% Blizzard
Painkiller: Hell & Damnation 4% Nordic

Friday, 8 November 2013

FIFA 14, Gravity and Hudl in latest Harris Buzz research

The October edition of Harris Buzz is out, our monthly look at what's hot in entertainment and technology polling a national representative Harris Poll sample.

The full report is available for free - click here.




This is what we measured this month:
  • BBC to launch BBC One +1 channel
  • BBC unveil the next-generation iPlayer
  • FIFA 14 video game
  • Gravity movie
  • Homeland Series 3 begins on Channel 4
  • LOVEFiLM makes available exclusive drama series, Copper
  • NBA 2K14 video game
  • Runner Runner movie
  • Samsung launches smartphone with curved screen
  • Sony Xperia Z1 goes on sale
  • Tesco launches Hudl tablet
  • Wuaki.tv launches in the UK
  • YouTube launches its first Music Awards