Americans Spent 2008 Playing World Of Warcraft, PlayStation 2 Games
We get a fair idea of which games sell the most. But what about the games we play the most? Little harder to quantify. That hasn’t stopped surveyors Nielsen from trying to find out!
According to their “best of 2008″ lists - which record stuff like the ten highest-grossing movies, biggest-selling albums, etc - America’s PC gamers spent more time playing World of Warcraft than any other game. Indeed, you spent more time playing World of Warcraft than the other nine games in the top ten combined.
Nielsen also recorded - again, on the basis of most time spent playing rather than highest-selling - what America’s most popular console was. And surprise, it wasn’t the Wii. While Nintendo’s console was obviously the top seller for 2008, it’s still got a ways to go to catch up the install base of the PS2, which racked up nearly 3x as many playing hours as Nintendo’s machine could manage.
Oh, and yes. That is the original Xbox getting more use than the PS3 (with the GameCube not that far behind, either). Ouch.
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@Ashkihyena: and on that note, I hate the 7th and 9th games as well.
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@havelava: Games, cause Call of Duty is by Activision, and WoW is by Blizzard, which is partnered with Activision.
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@Äipic: pretentious, rather.
Äipic
@adultswim810: No I just meant it was dumbed down in general.
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@Mark Mann: I think the funniest part about you being a douche here is that you do it under your real name. At least maybe put a little effort into it and make a dummy account Mark Mann of Hebrew Academy of Five Towns HS, New York NY, Class of 2009.
Someone could look you up and call your mother.
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@rapkadrummer: I play it maybe once a month and there is easily 200+ (rough estimate :P) every single time I go on. Its a shame its always always Blood Gulch though.
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@aw3str1k3r: The smoothing option on a PS3 (with BC, of course) alleviates this somewhat, but yeah... I definitely feel you. >.<
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Whooo The Sims!
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Ugh, I hate the first two, so very, very much.
Ashkihyena
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