Wii Sports: The 1.3 billion hour game.

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*“Wii Play” continues to defy the critics, by actually getting played — a lot.

These are just some of the discoveries in MTV Multiplayer’s fifth monthly breakdown of Wii software usage stats. Remember! I’m not tracking sales. I’m tracking how much time the people who play and rent these games actually play them. Any game can sell. But only good games get played.

Check out the usage stats for 41 Wii games:

 

WII SOFTWARE USAGE AS OF JANUARY 1, 2009

The following statistics are pulled from the Wii’s Nintendo Channel, which allows users to persistently share their play history for any disc or downloadable games played on the Wii. These numbers do not reflect overall usage of these games on the Wii but instead reflect usage of the more than 1.6 million Americans who are sharing info with the channel (up from 1.4 million last month). We think that’s a pretty healthy sample size!

Games are ranked in order of average play time. The game we’re tracking that has been played the longest by its average user is at the top of this list.

If there are more games you want us to track, let us know!