Nielsen's State of the Video Gamer study somehow measures a percentage of the total time a console could be used. I don't know how the hell they do that, but their figures show that the Wii has the lowest user activity. Compared to your other game systems, your Wii is kind of sad and lonely.
The Wii owners use their console 6.8 percent of the total time they could have used it. Edge says that this measurement time is from December 2008. In comparison, the Xbox 360 and PS3 have average user percentages of 10.2 and 10.6 respectively.
Are the latter figures good? I don't know! But we do know that the Wii's average usage days were about the lowest, only higher than the GameCube's, at about five days. Granted, the Xbox 360 and PS3 have more features, like movie playback, so it makes sense that use time would be higher. But you still got to feel kind of bad for your Wii.
Oh, you don't? Here's how the study lays it out:
Predominant users of the Wii and GameCube are likely to use these consoles at most once a week and for fewer minutes and the fewest number of sessions compared to the other two groups of consoles.
Is your Wii sad and lonely? My Wii gets a lot of love with Tatsunoko vs Capcom and Dokopon Journey, but that's about it.
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11:40 AM on 04.08.2009
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last game I bought for it I believe was No More Heroes.
My 360 is on-par with my PS2 usage. I wake up, get ready for work, pop in a game (currently working on Dead Space), play for 15-30 minutes, leave for work.
Once the kids are in bed, and none of my shows are on, I'll play for about an hour or so. Or me and the missus will play some Rock Band.
God I love the Homebrew Channel.
Just for comparison, however, between my girlfriend and I, I'd say our PS3 gets used for games AT LEAST a couple hours a day. Friday is my busiest weekday thanks to Dtoids FNF. If you add in the time for bluray, we use it even more.
I want to sell my wii, but the girlfriend says we will use it again some day. The more time goes by, the less I believe that.
And I too am beginning to believe those two points less and less as time goes on.
I don't know. I can't find anything to play on it. My guess is that maybe people feel like me. I'd rather buy something like Killzone 2 than... what? I can't even think of a similar game on the Wii - something that I would play for hours on end on a daily basis.
No, my guess is that there are too few games that cater to gamers and those that DO exist either lack depth or were published at the beginning of the system's lifespan.
I play my Wii a lot. Madworld, Bit. Trip. Beat, Lit, Super Punch Out!, Rune Factory: Frontier, Tatsunoku Vs. Capcom, Kororinpa: Marble Saga, and I've started playing Fire Emblem 10 again as well. I've also got a lot of older games that I haven't finished(or finished as much as I would like to, I finished Baroque's story mode but I want to tackle the extra dungeons at some point), as well as a bunch of GC games. The system is hardly ever off.
But seriously, does the amount someone spend time playing determine if a console is worthwhile? It depends on the people who play. Not news but not EVERYONE is hard core and plays games every day or multiple times a week - like my sister and brother in law. For a while they pounded on Animal Crossing and wouldn't talk to me about anything else, but lately I haven't heard a peep from them. That doesn't mean they don't value their games and the Wii though.
If you look at it from the CORPORATIONS ARE EVIL BECAUSE THEY TRY TO BE FINANCIALLY SUCCESSFUL angle, Nintendo wouldn't give half a turd about this report.
I know man. And the thing is, I was THE BIGGEST nintendo nerd. You know those 80 dollar wallclings that turn your room into a level from mario? That's my office. And I stuck with them longer than most, but I wasn't going to blindly let them fool me forever.
Will I still buy from them if they release a good game? Yes. I would love a new zelda that is like a true sequel to windwaker. I still believe that they can make a good game. But that makes it all the more annoying that they are releasing crap like Wii music.
I'll probably never sell it, just because of all the damn VC games I bought. But yeah, the thought still crosses my mind.
...Ah, the hell with it! I'm scouting the used stores and gettin' a Gamecube! Again!
I haven't played the Wii in a very, very long time. Last game I put in was Smash Brothers, and I've been too busy with other games to purchase and play Madworld.
I don't know what purpose this study is supposed to prove, or how they even came up with the numbers that they did (if its survey, I'm pretty sure all the Nintendo gamers refused because Club Nintendo forces you to do a million in order to get your points, so we're kind of sick of surveys).
I claim inaccuracy on their part, and bollocks on the whole operation. People are going to use the technology they want to, and there's nothing more to it.
Figured I'd get one of those wall-clings for him so he doesn't have al lof these posters taped to his wall...but $80 is a little expensive. I may just paint a pixelated Mario or something.
And I may hate them right now, but I have hope that they'll do something to bring us back to them. The Punch Out game is a good start, though that was announced prior to the Fatal Frame 4 news that currently has me pissed...
Yeah, those wall clings are expensive, and they are a bitch to line up, but they look awesome. I even painted the wall the "mario sky blue" before I put them up. I'm a writer so I spend a lot of time in my room pacing and getting annoyed, so seeing that childhood memory there keeps me happy.
I cancelled my Nintendo Power after years of enjoyment. I just wasn't reading them anymore.
I hope they do something good, but I feel pretty angry at them still. Are they going to come crying to me when the soccer moms hop on a new fad? I don't know if I'll be there. On the bright side, I really like Sony's approach this round.
For all madworld lovers please try deadly creatures, i actually liked it a lot more!