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Offline Karl Castaneda #2

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Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« on: January 25, 2006, 11:19:25 AM »
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According to Nintendo UK General Manager David Yarnton, Nintendo's Wi-Fi service has just recently broken the three million mark as far as confirmed connections. Launching this past November, WFC has quickly grown to be quite popular, with more than an estimated half a million actual [active] users, according to Yarnton. To put that into perspective, it took Xbox Live three years to aquire 2 million subscriptions.    


In other Nintendo UK news, the company has taken steps to increase WFC's availability by equipping Britain with 1000 new hot spots, meaning you'll soon be able to duke it out in some Mario Kart and visit towns in Animal Crossing at your local cafe and public transit station.

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RE:Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2006, 12:49:47 PM »
That is beyond awesome.
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RE: Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2006, 01:19:54 PM »
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RE: Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2006, 01:26:34 PM »
I think it's totally awesome how I can play someone across the globe during halftime during a local college basketball game, and how I can continue to play them as I walk out the door and anywhere on the campus.  

Portable + wireless + free?  You can't lose.
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RE: Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2006, 01:30:27 PM »
Nintend0 is d00med!
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RE:Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2006, 02:02:37 PM »
Doesn't X-Box Live only have like, a million?
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RE: Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2006, 03:13:28 PM »
This is kind of confusing, at one point they say 3 million connections, and then another they say half a million active users...

Is the 3 million mean unique connections?  Or just that the half a million active users have only connected an average of 3 times?  If it's actually unique users, then what constitutes an active user.  3 million uniques in 4 months time would seem to me like 3 million active users... i dunno.
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RE: Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2006, 04:12:18 PM »
Personally, I don't like comparing the 3 million number to XBL subscriptions.  It's like comparing apples to cases of apples.  Nintendo's number seems to be referencing each time someone's connected, meaning that the 50 - 100 times I've been online count towards that number.
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RE:Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2006, 04:28:27 PM »
Bloodworth...WFC doesn't track individual connections?  

IF that's the case, then why did they release this useless peace of information?
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RE: Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2006, 04:35:55 PM »
3 million connections by more than 500,000 different people. This is just the beginning...
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RE:Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2006, 06:40:44 PM »
http://www.nintendowifi.com/global/index.jsp?locale=en_US


Umm..  Could that be Euopean connections?  This splash page here, unless my eyes decieve me, clearly says 10 million connections by half a million people.  I don't know where they got the 3 million from...
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RE: Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2006, 06:41:23 PM »
500,000 people out of 12 million world-wide aint sh!t.....

It's actually kinda sad.

Oh well, I think the DS just needs some better Online games.




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RE: Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2006, 07:00:06 PM »
its just the same 10,000 ppl, being d/c over and over
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RE: Nintendo WFC Hits 3 Million Connections
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2006, 08:55:48 PM »
"Personally, I don't like comparing the 3 million number to XBL subscriptions. It's like comparing apples to cases of apples. Nintendo's number seems to be referencing each time someone's connected, meaning that the 50 - 100 times I've been online count towards that number. "

I thought it was comparing the .5 million users on WFC in the past 2-3 months, to the Xbox getting four times as many Live users in about twelve times as much time.
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