3000 hours of Wii and the death of Mario Kart.

[ramuji]

Mr Khan said:

The Nintendo Channel can't collect this data itself? I thought it could.

The recently updated Nintendo Channel does. (Is this still only available in Japan?) For each individual game/channel, it records total time played and the number of play sessions. I don't recall if the previous version of the Nintendo Channel had a simiar function, but I don't think it did.
Checking my own game history, I was disappointed to discover that even time that a game is paused (on the Home menu) is still counted as time the game is played. If I have to get away for a while, I have a habit of placing a game on pause when I'm between save points and then sometimes not getting back to the game for a long time, maybe even several days. So, my history has some ridiculous numbers (for me), like 103 hours spent on Twilight Princess (even though I only went straight through the story, and only once, no side quests) and over 80 hours on POP in only 5 play sessions.