| 1337 Gamer said: um ok this is for the most part useless information. Interesting but useless |
You're wrong, actually. Leaving aside its usefulness to us, you overlook the context in which these figures were released. Nintendo is about to launch its own video service in Japan, and to do so it needs companies to provide content. That's much more likely to happen if Nintendo can show those studios that:
1) the 8 million Wiis sold in Japan are currently still in active use, not just stuffed "in the closet" as Sony claimed (without support).
2) Multiple people in the household utilize said Wii.
By showing these two conditions are true, you're essentially telling studios that they have 8 millionx.87x3.4= 23,664,000 pairs of eyeballs as your current potential audience (and that number is increasing by the week).
Quite useful, I'd say. Plus, as you said, it's interesting, and I'm pretty sure we can use this data in the future.
