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Aging Consoles Find New Life As Video Streamers

Posted by Soulskill on from the everybody-needs-a-second-job-these-days dept.

MojoKid writes "Microsoft's Xbox 360 console is six years old. The Nintendo Wii is five years old, and so is the Sony PlayStation 3. All three are due for an overhaul (can you imagine gaming on a PC that's half a decade old, or more?), and while they're still popular gaming platforms, consoles are really starting to shine as streaming media centers. According to market research firm Nielsen, streaming video on game consoles is up over last year. Xbox 360 owners now use their consoles to stream video 14 percent of the time, which is almost as much as PS3 users (15 percent). But it's the Wii that sees the most time as a streaming device, with Wii owners using their consoles to stream video a third of the time."

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  1. Re:let me go home and cry some more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, alas, not all of us can upgrade from our still working computers to newer ones just for the sake of gaming. Solitaire FTW!

  2. what? by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 3, Funny

    (can you imagine gaming on a PC that's half a decade old, or more?)

    What's so hard to imagine? Tons of people do it just fine.

  3. Where do they get this data from? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Carrier IQ?

  4. Re:But the Wii doesn't even do HD! by schlachter · · Score: 4, Funny

    When Nintendo named the Wii back in 2005...I doubt they imagined that Streaming would become a popular use for the device.

    None of us want to go around saying "I stream with my Wii"

    We'd all sound like a bunch of 5 yr olds making obvious but inappropriate comments. :)

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  5. Re:Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    "unlike the 360's, which sound like jet engines"

    Unlike the 360's what?