Enterbrain has a snapshot of what online gaming is shaping up to be in Japan:
CONSUMERSDo you use the networking feature of your console?
- Yes: 89.4%
- No: 10.6%On which platform are you using the network feature?
- 21.6%: DS
- 19.7%: Wii
- 18.1%: PSP
- 13.4%: PS2
- 13.4%: PS3
- 11.8%: Xbox 360
- 2%: otherWhich service are you using the most?
- 22.2%: Online Gaming
- 16.4%: Demos
- 15%: Bonuses for games
- 15%: Game news
- 14.9%: No gaming related content
- 12.4%: Internet
- 4%: MailGAME MAKERS
Are you involved in networking services?
- No: 60.7%
- Yes: 39.3%What kind of services are you involved into?
- 43.5%: Online Gaming
- 30.5%: Bonus data
- 13%: Game news
- 13%: DemosOn which platform are you involved?
- 39%.1%: Xbox 360
- 17.4%: DS
- 17.4%: PS2
- 13%: PSP
- 8.7%: PS3
- 4.4%: Wii
4.4%, I’m not quite dead yet, says the Wii. O mysterious Wii online gaming, when will you emerge?
I guess the XBox live service is just that good even though only a minuscule percentage have the Xbox 360 in Japan.
Ninteno nees to take a leaf out of Xbox’s Book, or just copy and past the entire damn thing.
Or is it that Microsoft’s development environment is better than Nintendo’s or Sony’s at this point? I don’t think developers have even had online functionality exposed in their dev kits until recently, so it hasn’t even been an option for more game developers…
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