{"id":3252,"date":"2009-01-25T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"2008-s-most-played-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/3252-2008-s-most-played-consoles","title":{"rendered":"2008&#039;s most played consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em>As a part of Nielsen&rsquo;s round-up of the biggest of 2008, the research firm has published a list of the years most played consoles.<\/p>\n<p>The list takes its information from a range of public surveys and reflects the most played consoles across North America between the months of January and October.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics refer to total minutes spent by all users on each console.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. PS2 &ndash; 31.7%<\/p>\n<p>2. Xbox 360 &ndash; 16.2%<\/p>\n<p>3. Nintendo Wii &ndash; 12.4 %<\/p>\n<p>4. Xbox &ndash; 9.7%<\/p>\n<p>5. PS3 &ndash; 8.3%<\/p>\n<p>6. GameCube 4.6%<\/p>\n<p>7. DS,PSP and Game Boy &ndash; 16.2%<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the PlayStation 2 was the most played console of 2008 in North America, with more collective minutes being spent on the console than any other.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Nintendo Wii was the highest selling console of 2008, their more &ldquo;casual&rdquo; fan base obviously spent less time gaming than the PS2 or Xbox 360 crowd.<\/p>\n<p>While Sony can be proud of their aging PS2 for taking top honors, it wasn&rsquo;t all good news as the PS3 came in at fifth place with just 8.3 percent; almost half the gametime that the Xbox360 experienced.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next gen consoles take back seat to PS2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}