Whilst Wii lags behind all the competition, according to new stats from Nielsen Games
New numbers from analyst firm Nielsen Games suggest that the Xbox 360 currently boasts the most active user base of any home console, with 11.5 per cent of those owning the console in North America playing games on a regular basis.
The news isn’t so rosy for Wii, however, with the firm claiming that just under six per cent of owners play their machine regularly.
Elsewhere in the listings, which were published on IndustryGamers, PS3 was named the second most used console, with ten per cent of owners regularly powering up.
Surprisingly the original Xbox still gets more use than the mighty PS2 – both of which hover between nine and ten per cent of active users.
In total, 50 per cent of the time spent playing games is done so on next-gen machines, with 31 per cent claimed by the PS2/Xbox/GameCube era and the remainder by older machines.
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Well, duh!
Well of course the Wii has the least number of active users. I hate to say this, because up to the Wii I was always a bit of a Nintendo Fanboy, but the Wii is only really good for party/family games where everyone is in the same room. The painful way it does online gaming is a real problem. You have to muck around getting friend codes off people to add to your console, then they have t add you to theirs, etc, etc. It all involves you knowing people who have them in the first place!
On the other hand the Xbox and PS3 make it easy to go online, play games, meet people and everything. This means people are more likely to pick up one of those than a Wii. Plus you can't really talk to people on the Wii. That I'm aware of the only game that allows you to talk is Animal Crossing and that involves you talking to your TV and your TV talking back. Not exactly somehting you can do quietly, whereas the others have headsets and you can talk to your friends even when playing other games.
For all the innovation that is within the Wii and its controls it really don't lack a very basic package of networking and communication which means unless everyone wants to comes round and play right now, it's useless!
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