NPD: 29% of Wii gamers play online. Higher percentage than the PS3.

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MaxwellGT2000 said:

Gnizmo said:
Its fairly interesting over all. I am surprised so many online gamers actually use the Wii for online gaming. My guess is that Smash Bros and Mario Kart pull in a lot of players and up the percentage. What seems really strange to me is they have found such a low percentage of peopel who play online without owning a console. I am curious as to wht the PS2, PSP, and DS numbers were. For those curious I will link the actuall press release. Hopefully it will stop people from making ridiculous claims about how this report can't be right.

http://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_090310a.html

 

Yes read the real report, of the people polled that actually play online, 87% are playing on PC, 50% are playing on 360, 29% are on Wii, and 20% are on PS3.

These people overlap, so someone could play PC, PS3, 360, and Wii online, while others could only play consoles or a console online, as 13% don't use PC at all online for games just consoles.

A chart to better understand the data.

Note the 20% came from the OP which I cannot find any other data for the PS3 percent as even the press release doesn't have it. Gamespot also has 20% listed as they also were given the update from NPD this makes their info quite possibly the truth.

 

Right.  That's exactly what the report says, and not much else.  Extrapolate what you can from it.  The problem arises when people start assuming that this means that "29% of wii owners play online". 

I'm still certain that this data set is biased and unrepresentative of the general public though.