Web 'inventor' Tim Berners-Lee. What console does he have.
With more than 30 million Wiis sold into homes in its life to date compared to 16 million PS3s and both with Internet browsers, you might expect that Nintendo's family-friendly box to have a larger 'market share' on the Net than the former.
You'd be wrong. A new report from Marketshare indicates that PlayStation 3 owners like to use their console (sorry, Interactive Entertainment System) for Web use than those people playing with their Wiis in December 2008.
With Microsoft's Xbox 360 not having a browser, it doesn't figure in the stats.
The gap between the PS3 and Wii is huge. Nintendo's machine gets 0.01% of 'operating system market share' compared to the PS3's 0.04%. It might look small - but it actually means that PS3 users use the Internet four times as much than Wii users, despite having a smaller install base.
Neither compares to Windows' 88.6%, which still dominates. Apple's 9.63% of share is actually up 9% since November - a great deal of this is down to the iPhone according to Fortune. That coverage also indicates that Microsoft's Windows has lost 1.1% of share in December.
The full list is available here.
You'd be wrong. A new report from Marketshare indicates that PlayStation 3 owners like to use their console (sorry, Interactive Entertainment System) for Web use than those people playing with their Wiis in December 2008.
With Microsoft's Xbox 360 not having a browser, it doesn't figure in the stats.
The gap between the PS3 and Wii is huge. Nintendo's machine gets 0.01% of 'operating system market share' compared to the PS3's 0.04%. It might look small - but it actually means that PS3 users use the Internet four times as much than Wii users, despite having a smaller install base.
Neither compares to Windows' 88.6%, which still dominates. Apple's 9.63% of share is actually up 9% since November - a great deal of this is down to the iPhone according to Fortune. That coverage also indicates that Microsoft's Windows has lost 1.1% of share in December.
The full list is available here.
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Stevie H 2 Jan 2009 13:20
1/6
Well, people do have to pay to download the Wii Internet Browser, so that might explain it.
SuperSaiyan4 2 Jan 2009 13:21
2/6
Sony sure do seem desperate for something of great news for their PS3...What next? Highest use of USB ports?
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SuperSaiyan4 2 Jan 2009 13:29
3/6
I was always under the impression the internet was made by Americans and was used for military purposes originally in the USA...
Until I read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
Until I read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
Arnie H 2 Jan 2009 14:15
4/6
Yeah, the Wii doesn't have the browser installed out of the box like the PS3 so the comparison is idiotic.
zagi 3 Jan 2009 00:54
5/6
PS3 IS THE BEST CONSOLE OUT THERE.....A FACT...
DoctorDee 3 Jan 2009 08:37
6/6
SuperSaiyan4 wrote:
I was always under the impression the internet was made by Americans and was used for military purposes originally in the USA...
The Internet WAS invented by the US military - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Tim Berners-Lee was core to the creation of the Web. They are quite different things, the Internet is the wiring, the Web (and email, ftp, gopher, instant messaging etc) are systems that use it.