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PostPosted: February 19th, 2009, 12:15 pm 
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A recently released Nielsen study has attempted to gather data on the three major home consoles on who's playing them and how much they are playing them, stateside.

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As you can see, the Xbox 360, according to the study, was the most used daily among males and females overall from the period of October 2008-December 2008, with the Wii coming in last.

Yet sales of the Wii are still through the roof.

It's interesting to notice that play time does not equal sales figures, and more interesting to try to determine why that is so. Obviously, the WIi has a lot of buzz behind it, but you have to wonder if negative word of mouth, i.e., people aren't playing it as much, will start to impact sales.

Anyways, I just thought this was an interesting little study on playtime. What about you? For those of you who have more than one of the current gens, does your play time match up? Mine did, 360 > PS3 > Wii.

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It's probably because the Wii is thought of as a casual game system whereas the XBOX 360 and the PS3 are for more hardcore gamers. Therefore more people who own the 360 and PS3 have a larger gaming fix so they use it more on their own whereas the Wii sells more to those who have less of a gaming fix so they use it less (the occasional solo diversion, getting together with friends, playing with other family, showing off the controller as a novelty, etc.)

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Anonymous (Bo) wrote:
It's probably because the Wii is thought of as a casual game system whereas the XBOX 360 and the PS3 are for more hardcore gamers. Therefore more people who own the 360 and PS3 have a larger gaming fix so they use it more on their own whereas the Wii sells more to those who have less of a gaming fix so they use it less (the occasional solo diversion, getting together with friends, playing with other family, showing off the controller as a novelty, etc.)


Great point. Makes perfect sense too.

For me, its 360>(don't own Wii)>(played PS3 twice)
I might get a PS3 for BluRay. Not that it would change that I play 360 the most though. I kinda wonder if Halo had anything to do with the 360 having such strong sales and then gaining a stronger player base. Probably.

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I would love to play the Wii more, except for the fact that it's been a game graveyard for like the last half of 08. It's just starting to pick up, with games like House of the Dead Overkill and Deadly Creatures.

360's where it's been at lately, though most of the games are FPSs.

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Wait... you were serious about those two game?

The only reason I've touched my Wii at all lately (shut up...) was because of Heavenly Guardian. And it's not even all that great.

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I'm sure, even when I get me a 360, Wii will probably get played more. Unfortunately, that will be mostly due to WiiWare and Virtual Console. Moreso the latter.

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