What Wii owners are playing most
US stats make for interesting reading.
New stats appearing on the US Nintendo Channel have revealed what Wii owners prefer to play - and for how long.
The Nintendo Channel is available in Europe too, but the stats only appear to be accessible via the American version. According to Kotaku's calculations, Wii owners spend a whole lot of time on Guitar Hero III - racking up an average total playing time of 53 hours and 28 minutes. Each person who owns the game has booted it up 30 times on average, and in total six million gaming sessions have been logged.
Next up is Wii Sports. The average time spent playing the game is 33 hours and six minutes, and owners have played the game 28.3 times. More than 21 million gaming sessions have taken place, and 24.7 million hours of play have been racked up.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has been booted up an average of 9.9 times by everyone who owns it. They've played it for 4.1 million hours in total, or an average of 21 hours each.
At the lower end of the scale, Okami, Carnival Games and Wii Fit have all been played around 5.7 times by their owners. Okami wins out when it comes to average time spent playing - 14 hours 25 minutes, compared to just over 9 hours for Wii Fit and nearly eight hours for Carnival Games.
The figure for Boom Blox stands at 8 hours 25 minutes, and it's only been booted up 3.8 times on average. What a shame. It is good!
Stats are also available for WiiWare games - Final Fantasy: My Life as a King is apparently most popular, with an average play time of 11 hours and 46 minutes. Visit MTV multiplayer for more exciting WiiWare-related maths fun.
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/is confused
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And that a large percentage of those that are not connected were bought by people who purchased the console on the strength of Wii Sports alone.
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@BadBoyRunner
and/or Wii Fit
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wii sports - played maybe three times in total and,
Boom Blox which has been played 20 times or more - multi-player only.
The wii is the worst console of all time. If it wasn't for Boom Blox i would never use it at all.
I remain hopeful that WiiWare may save it but they need to sort out the storage problem for dlc.
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I wouldn't be surprised if there's quite a lot of Wiis out there that aren't even connected to the internet and also quite a few that are but haven't downloaded the Nintendo channel yet (or opted not to report gaming habits).
I think that there's a good chance that the gaming habits are different between those who actually connected their Wii to the internet and those who don't. Some of the party games might be more prominent on Wiis used by 'casual' players (as much as I hate the term).
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I'm sure YOU'RE shit.
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Okami and Wii Fit are still quite new games, so it's not really a fair comparison, is it?
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As far as only tracking consoles that have been connected to the internet goes, though, that's certainly true.
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Nintendo store the games for you. If you need to play 11 or more per day just delete one and re download another.
oh, something tells me the Wii doesnt need WiiWare to save it as a gaming paltform.
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You also have to give explicit consent for your data to be submitted to Nintendo....
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I order this game because a lot ppl say it's really great. Let's hope I don't get disappointed.
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I've played it for exactly that and I've been wandering around so much exploring and doing good deeds that I've only done 1 (what seems to me) proper dungeon. It's lovely and I can easily see me taking more than 50 hours over it.
Also I shudder to think how many hours of Mario Kart was played on my Wii especially when everyone in my flat was supposed to be studying for exams!
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