Ninty reveals the hard truth about playing hours/habits of wii owners

[Chrizum]

steven787 said:

Chrizum said:

darconi said:

Chrizum said:
Wait, how does the Nintendo channel know how long you have played the game? I mean, I submitted some questionnaires, but many of those games I haven't finished yet.

What they say about Okami makes no sense, as people can still play it AFTER they submitted their questionnaire, right?

 

It pulls the data from your Wii calendar play data.  If you checked the calendar, it says how much time you spent playing games and what games.  When you get the Nintendo channel, it tells you that to get demos, you have to allow them to pull that info off.

Yeah but what I mean is, they can't know how long you play the game after you submitted the questionnaire. So I may submit it after playing a game for 2 hours, and play another 28 hours afterwards. For this reason, this information is totally useless, and I think it's silly Kotaku draws conclusions from this.

You don't submit a questionaire, it gets the data from your Wii.  All they ask is if it's ok to do it.

 

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification. Still, Okami is only out (at least in Europe) for less than a week. It's perfectly normal that people haven't finished it yet.

But yeah, the data at least is useful, generally speaking.