Coffee With Games – Nintendo Selects: Punch-Out!!

Thanks to Scott over at CoffeeWithGames.com we have a snapshot of current play data for Nintendo Selects: Punch-Out!!.  For his full analysis  be sure and click on the link at the bottom of this article.

 

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What happens when you play Punch-Out!! from the Virtual Console, and Rage of the Gladiator a lot? Eventually, Punch-Out!! Wii may land on your list of “Wanted Games”, as it did mine. Then what? Well, if you are/become a father, and your wife looks at your “Wanted Games” list, as Mrs. Coffee did mine, it may show up one year for Father’s Day. Last Sunday, Father’s Day, that’s just what happened in the Coffee House!

Punch-Out!! was originally released for the Wii on May 18, 2009 with a MSRP of $49.99. The game was developed by Next Level Games, and published by Nintendo. The game received an ESRB rating of “Everyone 10+” with “Cartoon Violence, Comic Mischief” listed as content for parents and gamers to be aware of.
Last year, on August 28th, Punch-Out!! joined the Nintendo Selects lineup of games, and can now be found for under $20 brand new.

How many hours have U.S. Wii owners spent boxing in Punch-Out!! over the last 3 years since it released, and how many more U.S. Wii owners have reported data on the game since March 2011? Brew some coffee, and let’s take a look!

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Punch-Out!! now has approximately 199,498 U.S. Wii owners that have reported data through the Nintendo Channel, which is an increase of 43,080 U.S. Wii ownersthat have reported data since March 7, 2011.
The game has an average play-time per day/session now reported as 1 Hour 24 Minutes, just a 1 minute decrease from the last average reported on.
Punch-Out!!’s current 2,221,725 Total Hours of reported game-play is an increase of 559,277 more hours since last year’s report.

The game has a “professional” review score average of 87.66%, still based on 47 reviews on GameRankings.com.
Its customer review score average is now 86.53%, a slight increase since last year, now based on 153 customer reviews between the original Wii version the Nintendo Selects version on Amazon.com.

Source: Read the full article over at CoffeeWithGames - Nintendo Selects: Punch-Out!!