NPD: Online gaming up 10 percent in US

According to the post more people are cheating and trashtalking than last year.

"BrokenTriforce @ Mar 4th 2010 3:44AM

According to the post more people are cheating and trashtalking than last year."

Actually, according to the post, the NUMBER of people "cheating and trashtalking" is DOWN by 2% over last year...just the ones that are left are playing longer (8 hours a week this year compared to 7.3 hours last year). So, the original post was correct...some people have taken a break from playing online.

I'm not sure where you've been since the middle of last generation but... that's been standard play for a long, long while now.

360 owners huh?

That is a great opinion you have, but you my good sir, do not own all 4 systems. You're supposed to BUY games for your PS3. They don't generate games on their own.

The "Play" in PlayStation is there for show?

Although I'm not going to say that the PS3 has no games. I am going to say that Xbox live and PS3 have different audiences. Xbox live is good for people who want an online gaming identity for play with RL friends and meet new online friends. PS3 is good for people who just want quick free online play with RL friends or to play with more strangers.

"xbox live is the only one worth playing"
"I know this"

Made me lol. You might wanna take a look at this: http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/factsopinions/

Yeah, I like think PSN is pretty good. But, It's all preference I guess.

so, pc is king for online gaming

Damn, Mitchell is wielding the banhammer with a vengeance this morning.

Sprinkles... just... just stop >.>

uncharted 2 ??

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464335/

And Halo is the epitome of revolutionary, right?

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For a second I'm going to pretend you aren't just trolling and ask you this: Why the hell do you care if other people enjoy the PS3 just because you can't?

You'll be postin' in a troll thread. Stop the bleeding.

Because we all know that movies based of video games are great. The positive thing about the graphics in games getting so great is that you don't need a movie adaption to get a realistic "movie feel".
But seriously, troll much?

@Viking:

Prince of Persia better not suck. I'll be super pissed.

@manvir: For console games, it is.

Having read this AFTER Light Speed was banned, I feel like a detective piecing together the things he/she may/may not have said. This is kinda fun...

Mario Kart Wii is THAT awesome :P

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I have been playing games my whole life, and my PS3 is as much a media-player as gaming console, if not more. Even my mom bought one for the Blu-Ray player and Media Server capabilities.

And as you say, Microsoft are software developers, they should be superior on the online component. Sony are hardware developers, and makes quality hardware.
And the priced product should always in theory be better than the free product.

i can't really speak for a larger demographic since there isn't any data, but for myself i can say that gaming only comprises maybe 50% of what i use my xbox for, if even.

-talk to friends (i literally use party chat as a replacement for a phone among those friends who own xboxes)
-streaming television shows via play on
-watching my downloaded divx and xvid .avi movies via my external HDD
-netflix instant
-stream my music library via last.fm or from my laptop, depending

all these things add to up about as much time as i spend playing games on my xbox if not more, and admittedly i didn't even know about any of this stuff when i bought it. i have to hand it to sony, though, they've done a far better job than microsoft in advertising their console as "more than" a gaming system.

David:
Yeah, even though I don't have an Xbox, Netflix sure looks tasty. and it can stream from media-servers, so it's not as bad either.

But I do love my PS3, wish they would get Netflix to Norway as well. Since Microsoft soon will be able to.

You must not have noticed because you didn't need to buy an add-on to get internet working.
You're missing out. There's lots of good content in Wii Ware and Virtual Console.

Internet Sarcasm fail, I am sorry, should have made myself a little more clear.
I am well aware of the online component, VC and WiiWare, many fantastic games there, but i am rather unsure about the online _multiplayer_ component. I mean Friend codes? Yeeesh.

I'll agree that friend codes suck hairy goat nuts. But random matchmaking still works on Wii as well as it does on XBL.

@Broken: Agreed, it's important that people realise that online play on Nintendo is technically fine... provided you limit it to random matchmaking. And provided you don't mind that with said random matchmaking, there's no communication possible between players.

I am also pretty shocked by the 'Wii = PS3' thing here, though. As the article says, Mario Kart online was great, and I'm sure some people still play it (I played it for months but not now). Other than that the proportion of Wii games with a fun online component is really low. I mean, I also played Excite Bike online for a bit, that was good. Tetris Party is fun online as well, so I do play that occasionally... er... and... yeah.

I kind of wonder if they're using some interesting way to count - like, the 'percentage playing it online' might either (a) include things like downloading WiiWare (in which case I'm not surprised Wii is doing OK because WiiWare is great), or (b) be a 'have you ever' sort of thing (in which case, who hasn't played Mario Kart online), or something else...

But if none of that applies and it really is true that the same percentage of Wii owners as PS3 owners have played an online multiplayer game within the past month (or whatever), then yes, it's pretty surprising.

(I'm a Wii owner, and no I haven't played an online game in the past month, nor am I expecting to do so in the next one; in fact I'm not aware of an upcoming game with an online component that interests me...)

@Sam: There are actually a number of retail and Wiiware games with online play:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_Wi-Fi_Connection_games

It's not great, but it's not that bad, either. I'm hoping that Monster Hunter Tri is huge and changes the online scene even more for the Wii. Unfortunately, few of the big games coming to the Wii in the first half of '10 will have online play.

Still, I play a lot more online with the 360, but I think that's largely because the people I game with the most only have 360s.

Agreed

I can't be the only one who hates that logo's tacky presence in my clean/sleek looking xmb

The one you get before you create an account is much better.