Hello gamers! Sorry it's taken me so long to get out another post! I've been doing Nanowrimo which you can learn about here. But today we have some astonishing numbers from Nintendo.
Super Smash
352,945 years ago, humans didn't exist. But in just two months, we gamers have spent that much time on the new Super Smash bros game alone. The amount of total hours of people playing SSB for 3DS and Wii U is over three billion! And this statistic was released when the Wii U version was only released in North America (that's right, we actually received it before Japan)! We have spent 356 millenia just playing a new video game in the past two months alone!
I have no regrets.
Those aren't the only surprising numbers either, as of November 25. Players playing the new smashes have already spent 47,825,359 pieces of gold on bets, received 16,090,871,592 damage (assumably over internet only), played 13,252,084 online battles, and have gotten 160,929,807 KOs.
Mario
If there is one thing I found cool about New Super Mario Bros 2 for 3DS, it was the tons of coins you could find and add to your own personal giant coin counter. This number isn't completely personal, though, because that as soon as you connect to the internet your coin count is added to the international counter on the New Super Mario Bros. 2 website. The current coin value has reached 1,811,555,509,008, nearly 2 trillion coins! Assuming each coin is worth one U.S. dollar, you could buy Google, Twitter, Nintendo, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, and Facebook, with still a trillion to spare. But that isn't all. It has been calculated that each mario gold coin is worth...
$508,000!!!
That means that, in real life, players have earned 9.2 * 1017 a number so large my calculator couldn't display it. This equals 920,000,000,000,000,000, or 920 quadrillion. Let that sink in for a minute. The estimated value of Earth is around 4,720,440,000,000. So yes. If you wanted to, you could buy the Earth 230,000 times over. This is so much money that if you had it in one dollar bills you would have a pile the size of 460,000 empire state buildings.
And to think, all of that money was just shooting out of drain pipes.
Sources:
http://nintendonews.com/2014/11/total-smash-bros-play-time-3-billion-hours/
http://newsupermariobros2.nintendo.com/
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/27/mario-coin-calculato/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1361145/Earth-worth-3-000-trillion-according-scientists-new-planet-valuing-formula.html
http://nintendonews.com/2014/11/total-smash-bros-play-time-3-billion-hours/
http://newsupermariobros2.nintendo.com/
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/27/mario-coin-calculato/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1361145/Earth-worth-3-000-trillion-according-scientists-new-planet-valuing-formula.html
