A lot of people have been flocking to Nintendo's official page on the Internet.
A report from Nielsen//NetRatings, a firm reponsible for measuring traffic and usage statistics for Internet sites, has determined that Nintendo's official U.S. homepage, Nintendo.com, has seen the largest increase in traffic amongst all computer hardware manufacturer sites.
Last January, Nintendo was pulling 1.15 million users to their dot-com. It would be safe to assume that the Wii is the big reason why traffic vaulted to well over 2 million unique vistors by the end of this January—an 82% increase. Though Nintendo is a distant third behind giants Apple (43.5 million) and Dell (15.6 million), they are well ahead of those in the game console space: Xbox.com got 1.5 million readers in January, as did Sony's gaming website. Readers are also spending an average of three to seven minutes more on Nintendo.com than on the other two console home pages.
So what does this all mean? More people are looking at Nintendo's page on the Web than those of their competition. That means Nintendo is getting their message across those people more effectively. That's important for Nintendo if they want to continue spreading the word about the Wii, the DS, and their games to the masses.