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Final-Fan on 06 September 2009
TWRoO said:
ramuji said:
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.

Nope... the Nintendo Channel in the West does not do this.

You really shouldn't do that by the way. What exactly is wrong with turning it off... it's not like old NES games where there wee no save points

Doesn't it stop the clock if you use the Home button?  Ahaha, now that I've read the post, please kill me. 



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gog85 on 07 September 2009

i'd post mine but they are extremely poor in comparison.



Cthulhu on 07 September 2009

I have played the Wii for about 30 hours in 2 years



Aion on 07 September 2009

Cool but i could never spend so much time on a game like that.



 

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angrypoolman on 14 October 2009

I think I have you beat, honestly.



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amp316 on 14 October 2009

That's a lot of time playing Resident Evil 4.

Don't ever quit playing Mario Kart. You're too good.



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Metallicube on 14 October 2009

I have no idea how many hours of Wii I've clocked in but I've had it since launch and played in pretty frequently at least for the first year or so until I kinda shifted over more to my 360. My very vague ballpark guess though would be roughly 1000 hours, with the majority of the time consisting of Mario Kart Wii and Smash Bros, both rediculously addictive.

I really gotta get back to playing Mario Kart, I miss it.. The online was actually really solid and a lot of fun now that I think about it, and I got pretty damn good for awhile. I was pretty near the top of the ranks in that retro Boo level. I wish they'd have an actual leaderboard that ranked each player by number for each level, instead of showing you vaguely where you fall on a graph..