Ok

I found this info, I thought you were refering to a sum up of all games you played, but you meant only one day achievement. This info is useless, they should have made a sum up somewhere.

I want to know how long I played Mario Galaxy or Wii Sport

Epic post of the day.

>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.

For me another problem is the average with the number of sessions.

For example I just bought Okami ( Europe here ) and I played 3 or 4 sessions.

One session of 4 hour, another of 3 hour and two sessions were I only starring at the title screens ( sometime before go to work I watch the movies that appears when you don't touch anything )

So the average in this case is meaningless.

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.

It's still nice data none-the-less. You just have to understand how it works.

Obviously it cannot be applied to all users because only those who have the Nintendo channel took part, this means most of the "casuals" are taken out.
Then the session time is limited to 6 hours per day, so that takes out part of the most hardcore users (I have 2 sessions of LoZ and 1 of RE4 that are over 6 hours I think)

@DKII, what a waste of power... it takes about 30 seconds to get back into the game from turning it off, why the hell do you need to leave it on pause for days.

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.

Those numbers aren't inaccurate, it's an evaluation of the data based off of the people who, like TWRoO, explained:

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

It's not meant to be data that represents each and every Wii owner who has any particular game. Read it as, the play/usage data for the people who own/rent and played Metroid Prime 3 for over an hour and agreed to the aforementioned stipulations.

As long as you know it's only date derived from that particular group MP3 players, then the information is in no way inaccurate.

If anything the numbers given by Nintendo Channel undertrack the usage of those games, but given the ratio of players to session and hours played, and VGchartz sell through numbers you can come up with a number I'm sure.