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

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kingofwale said:

TWRoO said:

kingofwale said:
>Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: Here it is. The hardcore gamer's game for the Wii. It's logged 4,113,000 hours of total play time by Nintendo Channel users. The average total playtime for a gamer who owns MP3 is 21 hours and 16 minutes, meaning people are playing this thing to the end. They do it across 9.9 sessions. And if you start doing some fancy math with the numbers in this entry and the ones above, you may notice that the casual games seem to get played an average of an hour per session. But this hardcore game ropes in its players for two hours at a time.


now, I'm not great at math, but from those numbers... it states only around 200K MP3 was sold? Or else people simply bought MP3, but never played it??

Please explain it to me.

 

Explained.

It only includes people who:

1. Have the game.
2. Have the Nintendo Channel
3. Have agreed to show their playtime using the Nintendo Channel.

 

then the question will become, how good a representation this number is? I mean, if Fox has a pull of their viewer who they will vote for in the next election, I am sure McCain's name will show up. But how is that comparing to what's the MAIN market is?

Yes, gamers who CHOSE to have their number showed up in Nintendo Channel, aren't exactly soccer mom or retire home users. Then those numbers are grossly inaccurate.

You are assuming that non-gamers WON'T be installing this Channel.  Nintendo did advertise the channel to every internet-enabled Wii, and I feel that non-gamers would be as likely (if not more likely) to download it (as their internam memory's space won't be filled with all sorts of VC and WiiWare game most likely).

There is certainly a bias for Internet-enabled Wiis, and a bias for those who are willing to show their play times, but I am not convinced that either of those biases are particularly 'hardcore' leaning.  Up until rather recently, the most useful things you could do with being internet-enabled were use the Internet channel, News, and Weather -- not exactly the most hardcore offerings.

All told, I do not believe there is enough information available to cry 'bias' with respect to the data; until you show that gamers are more likely to download this and share their usage, I see no reason to assume that there is any greater proportion among gamers than among the general populace.