| hentai_11 said: You sadly can't compare it to other consoles. However you can compare the different months and you can easily see that the quote from Darren Williams is wrong. "I think on one hand the Wii has become the most expensive board game on Earth - it's the kind of thing that families will play at Christmas, and probably won't play again throughout the remainder of the year." Because if his quote was right, than December 2007 should have the highest values. Thanks for this intresting stuff haxxiy. |
What it does show though, is that the highest numbers are dec,jan,feb, march.
March was super smash bros. and june was rock band, as well as ssbb for in 'Others'. Which shows that during holiday season, and when big games come out, minutes per day increases by about 5, and usage days increase by ~.6. the amount of sessions remains pretty constant although in november (SMG) it goes up maybe for sneak gaming, gaming before school or work, and then after work/school. The same is consistent for the Rock Band/Guitar Hero month in late June, moving into July.
If someone were really good with numbers you could decipher the rough average of gaming for SSBB and GH/RB and find what the hardcore gaming crowd was like for Wii, and then go on to figure out what was the actual time spent gaming for the normal population (wii owners minus GH/RB/SSBB owners) , and playing which games by using Oyvoyvoy's method.
This graph does say a lot, but what I have failed to see was whether these numbers are worldwide or regional, it lacks explanation of the statistical methodology, and it doesn't show some other smaller stuff like what games they play mostly and stuff like that.
All in all though it's a good chart, there is a lot that can be learned from a chart like this. Depending on the pool, which wasn't mentioned, a couple extra minutes could roughly be thousands of hours more. In a chart like this a .1 could mean a lot or a little.
