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Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection smashes through the million player mark just four months after its launch...
Following TVG's report yesterday that the number of people using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection was within touching distance of the magic million player mark, the US Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection site today proudly displays that over 1 million players have now taken part in Nintendo's online experience.
Over 26.5 million connections have so far been made in the four months since the service launched at the tail end of 2005, and the figure shows no sign of stopping.
Whether the figure represents the number of gamers using the service in the US alone, or globally, is yet to be confirmed; if it is purely for the US, then Nintendo's strategy has proved to be an even greater success than perhaps they could have hoped.
An official statement from Nintendo is yet to be made; we'll have more shortly...
[UPDATE]
In an official statement Nintendo finally got around to acknowledging the achievement, recognising a gamer in Japan logging on to play Animal Crossing: Wild World as the millionth user - whether or not he'll receive a special prize remains doubtful given the lack of registration details required to access the service.
"Players are embracing our model of a compelling, safe, easy-to-use wireless gaming service," says Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales & marketing. "Those 1 million users represent more than 27 million game sessions."
The popularity of Nintendo Wi-Fi is set to continue growing, in North America at least, with the March 20th release of Metroid Prime: Hunters and Tetris DS; European finally get a chance to enjoy Animal Crossing: Wild World on March 31st, but have a little longer to wait for Tetris DS on April 21st followed by Metroid Prime Hunters on May 5th.
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Added:Sat 23rd Oct 2010 16:18, Post No: 77
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Added:Wed 21st Apr 2010 09:52, Post No: 76
Damn fine answer there...
Added:Wed 21st Apr 2010 02:55, Post No: 75
Maybe if Europe wasn't treated with active contempt by Nintendo, the R4 wouldn't be so damn popular, and there'd be a bit more brand loyalty >_>
Added:Tue 20th Apr 2010 13:29, Post No: 74
"**Recently, Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot outlined the problem that they faced with the DS market, albeit not blaming the device specifically:
"The considerable contraction in the DS market during the year particularly affected Ubisoft, leading to a €160 million, or almost 50%, year-on-year drop in the Company’s casual segment sales."**"
I look at this section and think what utter morons ubisoft have working for them.....there is a
world-wide Recession on so casual sales are going to take a huge hit for everyone....not all people can still casually drop the cash for luxuries like new DS carts or X-Box discs etc
Added:Fri 12th Mar 2010 01:50, Post No: 73
fuu[#@!?] dude. who the fuuck gives a shiit about your nintendo ds and its bull[#@!?] wifi capabilities. moron
Added:Thu 11th Mar 2010 09:27, Post No: 72
My nindtendo DSi need wireless, system update. Please give me some software to use the nintedo DSi.
Added:Fri 26th Feb 2010 04:35, Post No: 71
if you want to now go o youtube and find a clue i will tell mor clews later
Added:Fri 26th Feb 2010 04:33, Post No: 70
i know i secoret to locate the nashinul guferment cp on your ds but it is a secoet no one will know about it not even the fuss
Added:Thu 10th Dec 2009 12:45, Post No: 69
cool i have a ds i want i dsi but for some reson i like the ds more then the psp thats just me
Added:Tue 08th Dec 2009 13:05, Post No: 68
What do you want to know - there's hundresd of news stories related to the DS on this index page?!?!