| Peter Potamus said: "Nielsen measured the total amount of minutes its participants spent playing videogames, then divided those minutes between all current- and last-gen consoles. The PS2 obliterated the competition, claiming over 42 percent of all usage time. For each of the big three platforms, their last-gen predecessors saw more use than current systems." |
Systems "in the Wild" as of March 31st 2007:
XBox 360: 5,864,187
Wii: 2,323,137
PS3: 1,280,238
Systems "in the Wild" as of November 30th 2007:
XBox 360: 9,175,748
Wii: 7,031,085
PS3: 2,748,453
Now, if you average the number of units "in the Wild" in that time frame you get:
XBox 360: 7,519,968
Wii: 4,677,111
PS3: 2,014,345
So, you would expect the Wii to have 62% of the average play time of the XBox 360, and the PS3 to have 26% of the average play time of the XBox 360, based on the sizes of the userbases. What we really have is the Wii has 60% of the average playtime of the XBox 360, and the PS3 has 21% of the playtime of the XBox 360 which is fairly close to what you would expect ...
So basically, Nielsen highers people who don't have a clue what they're doing ...
