Wii Software Stats January Update: ‘Animal Crossing’ Is A Beast, ‘Sonic’ Whimpers (flag)

multiplayerblog.mtv.com — I've learned the following things from my crunching of more than 1.6 million Wii owners' gameplaying habits of 41 Wii games this month: *"Animal Crossing: City Folk" owners are indeed hardcore -- they played that game, on average, almost 10 hours of the game in December, the most intense ...

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Wii software usage as of Jan. 1st, 2009
GoNintendo — ... Average time played per player: As of 1/1: 24 hours, 59 minutes (up 577 minutes) As of 12/1: 15 hours, 22 minutes Average number of sessions per player: As of 1/1: 9.91 sessions (up 4.61 sessions ) As of 12/1: 5.3 sessions *NEW ENTRY* Sonic Unleashed (Released November 2008) Current Rank: #21 Last Month’s Rank: N/A Raw data for “Sonic Unleashed” usage Average time played per player: As of 12/1: 11 hours, 4 minutes Average number of sessions per player: As of 12/1: 4.61 sessions Full list here This entry was posted on Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 1:11 pm and is filed ...

So How Long Do People Play Wii Games For? [Nintendo]
Kotaku — ... of people put into Oblivion. Second is Guitar Hero III, at an average of 58 hours & 41 minutes, while Twilight Princess came in third at 46 hours, 29 minutes. Perhaps the most interesting (and sad) of the lot, though, is #13 on the list: Okami. It says the average time spent playing Okami has been a relatively paltry 19 hours & 43 minutes, meaning that's a hell of a lot of people who don't even get halfway through the game before calling it quits. Shame. Wii Software Stats January Update: ‘Animal Crossing’ Is A Beast, ‘Sonic’ Whimpers [MTV] ...

How Much Wii Could a Wii Player Play if a Wii Player Could Play Wii?
Kombo.com — ... , it seems clear that there are people who are quite happy to play the hell out of it, regardless. MTV Multiplayer's Stephen Totilo has put together a pretty comprehensive list of stats taken from the Nintendo Channel regarding how long people play certain games. I won't get into the nitty-gritty here (click the link for that), but suffice to say Animal Crossing was king in December, with people playing about ten hours' worth of the game. Light gun-style games didn't go over so hot, and Wii Play turned in a rather impressive showing. But wait, doesn't Wii Play feature a ...