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Three stores I visited today were sold out to reserves. Nintendo apparently didn't send a lot... Funny, 180K were online at the same time, but I couldn't find anyone regionally or internationally to play with. :\
 
I had not problem getting it today

can't play much yet my girlfriend goes to work at 10pm

One hour to got until an all-nighter of Mario Kart DS. :D
 
That's a decimal, not a comma. I've been checking the site off and on today and the highest I saw it go was 163 players before the "intermittent problems".
 
Unison said:
I'd guess that would be the # of games played on a given day... I doubt there were 20,000 beta testers.
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Read the graph, that's today at a specific time, not for the whole day.
 
DarthWufei said:
That's a decimal, not a comma. I've been checking the site off and on today and the highest I saw it go was 163 players before the "intermittent problems".
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:lol :lol
 
DarthWufei said:
That's a decimal, not a comma. I've been checking the site off and on today and the highest I saw it go was 163 players before the "intermittent problems".
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Erm, are you sure that's not meant to be a comma? That doesn't make much sense, especially since Animal Crossing has 0.5, half a person?
 
I managed to pick up my copy today, thanks to my Gamestop preorder. No luck at Fry's though. Still, if the 180K is accurate, that is insane. Go Mario Kart!
 
koam said:
Erm, are you sure that's not meant to be a comma? That doesn't make much sense, especially since Animal Crossing has 0.5, half a person?
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Do you really think there was 20,000 people online on the 11th when the game wasn't even out yet?
 
koam said:
Erm, are you sure that's not meant to be a comma? That doesn't make much sense, especially since Animal Crossing has 0.5, half a person?
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Actual dogs are playing with themselves. First Nintendogs, now this. Then the Revolution. They're taking over!
 
DarthWufei said:
That's a decimal, not a comma. I've been checking the site off and on today and the highest I saw it go was 163 players before the "intermittent problems".
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Rest of the world uses period.

USA format:

1,000,000.00 (1 million dollars)

Outside USA:

1.000.000,00
 
I'd just like to point out that there are sure to be good Xbox 360 games that will hardly get played over XBL at all.

To expect that Nintendo's wifi population exploded like the thread first assumed is absurd.
 
jamesinclair said:
Rest of the world uses period.

USA format:
1,000,000.00 (1 million dollars)

Outside USA:
1.000.000,00
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Most English-speaking countries use comma too. It's mainly continental Europe that uses a . instead of a ,
Besides, the dates are blatantly US format, so it looks like they're decimal points.
 
Why on earth would they have it listed as 100.000 if that's meant to be a decimal point? You can't possibly have .921 people.
 
jamesinclair said:
Rest of the world uses period.

USA format:

1,000,000.00 (1 million dollars)

Outside USA:

1.000.000,00
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I already knew this, but where does it say this site is from outside the US? I never saw any numbers over 200 since I've been checking the site, and I've been watching it since it went up. It actually hovered around 2 and 3 players when only the press had it, and the chart reflected that as well. Not 2,000-3,000. Also given the trouble people had getting games started before it was released... I somehow doubt there were 20,000 people online.
 
funwithnumbers_snesboxboxart_160h.jpg
 
koam said:
Why on earth would they have it listed as 100.000 if that's meant to be a decimal point? You can't possibly have .921 people.
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It's a simple perl script. I doubt this script even bothered to check for whole numbers and just generates the interval depending on the amount of data it has to process, whole number or not.
 
Microsoft has announced that there are now over a million users of the Xbox Live console online gaming service, which makes it into one of the fastest-growing online services of any description in the world.
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This is dated June 2004. You really think almost 200,000 people were playing Mario Kart online on its first day, when Nintendo hasn't even done online gaming before?
 
koam said:
Why on earth would they have it listed as 100.000 if that's meant to be a decimal point? You can't possibly have .921 people.
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Well, some of the people online would've been female, and as we all know, females were made with one of Adam's ribs, so it would only be reasonable to assume that they don't count as 1 whole person. Frankly, counting them as '.921' or even '.450' of a person is pushing it, IMO.
 
Considering the Nintendo wifi service is apparently experiencing problems 180k is likely the number you're looking at.
 
Speevy said:
This is dated June 2004. You really think almost 200,000 people were playing Mario Kart online on its first day, when Nintendo hasn't even done online gaming before?
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Although we see now that the Mario Kart figures aren't nearly that high, I'd like to state for future Live-to-Nintendo WiFi comparisons that Nintendo WiFi is 1.) free and 2.) more accessible than Xbox Live was. In addition, the broadband internet market had lower presentation when Xbox Live made its debut. It would only make sense that Nintendo would pick up players at a faster rate of speed.
 
OpinionatedCyborg said:
Well, some of the people online would've been female, and as we all know, females were made with one of Adam's ribs, so it would only be reasonable to assume that they don't count as 1 whole person. Frankly, counting them as '.921' or even '.450' of a person is pushing it, IMO.
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lol

Deku said:
Considering the Nintendo wifi service is apparently experiencing problems 180k is likely the number you're looking at.
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:lol



180,000 is way too high, unless this game launched everywhere worldwide today...even then, that's still too high
 
Hmmm... I have a hard time believing either number, 180K is too much and 180 is too little.
 
jj984jj said:
Hmmm... I have a hard time beliveing either number, 180K is too much and 180 is too little.
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Yeah, I feel the same way. Hopefully it's the former.
 
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