James Bond's Hours of Espionage! GoldenEye 007 Report

Coffee Beans:
     GoldenEye 007 was released on November 2, 2010; already one month ago!  Last week, we looked at the debut game-play hours for James Bond's latest Wii game, and the initial game-play data looked encouraging.  If you missed GoldenEye 007's Wii play-time data debut, you can read the report, HERE!
     Like last week, I'm including another GoldenEye 007 online multi-player match video, with this week's data report in the "Thoughts" section.

     How many hours of espionage have gamers participated in James Bond's GoldenEye 007 universe, since last week's report?  Let's take a look!

The hours shown above are for the United States of America Wii owners, not world-wide.

Approx. Number of Players Reporting Data:
     GoldenEye 007 now has 9,164 Wii owners reporting their play-time data, through the Wii's Nintendo Channel.

Player Increase Since Last Report:
     GoldenEye 007 has seen an increase of about 2,585 Wii owners reporting game-play data, since last week.

Average Hours & Total Game-Play Hours Reported:
     GoldenEye 007 has 118,078 Total Hours of game-play reported, an increase of 43,632 reported game-play hours since last week.
     GoldenEye 007 currently has an average play-time "Per person" of 12 Hours 53 Minutes, and a average play-time per session of just over 2 Hours 27 Minutes.

Sale Ranks & Advertised Prices:
     GoldenEye 007's, software only, Amazon.com sale rank is #43, and it's currently selling for $35.99.
     GoldenEye 007's Golden Classic Controller Pro bundle Amazon.com sale rank is #47, and it is currently selling for $49.99.
     (Sale ranks and advertised prices captured around 12:30AM, on 12-3-10)

Review Score Averages:
      GoldenEye 007's review score average is now 83.98%, based on 46 "professional" review scores on GameRankings.com.  The current review score average for GoldenEye 007 has slightly increased over last week's, which was 83.58% based on 40 reviews.

     Amazon.com's customer review score averages are still showing a 4 out of 5 Star rating, for both versions of GoldenEye 007.  The software version only has increased by four customer reviews, and the Golden Classic Controller Pro version has increased by five customer reviews, since last week.  You can see the Amazon.com customer review scores breakdown below:

     (GameRankings.com and Amazon.com review score averages captured around 12:30AM on 12-3-10)

Thoughts:

     I think it's really interesting that Amazon.com is already discounting GoldenEye 007 pretty significantly for a newly released title.  The Golden Classic Controller Pro version is currently discounted by 29%, from its MSRP; while software version only of the game is discounted 28% from its MSRP.

     Amazon.com is known for having great deals, but I just find it a little odd for both versions of GoldenEye 007 to be discounted this much, so soon.  The game-play data reported for the game has been solid for a third party Wii game, and I think sales for the game will be pretty decent through the Christmas holiday; which is why I think the price cut is a little odd right now.

     If you are interested in purchasing GoldenEye 007 for yourself, or as Christmas gift for somebody you know, now is probably a good time to watch the prices on Amazon, and get it is discounted.

     As for my play-time with GoldenEye 007, my "Game-Play Records" show I have played 48 Hours 20 Minutes.  All of that probably isn't straight game-play though, as sometimes I'll leave the game running on the menu screen, and I have spent some time just recording footage of different things in the game.

     My reported online multi-player "Time Played" is currently 17 Hours 54 Minutes, and that is a close reflection to my actual time playing the online multi-player.  Speaking of the online multi-player, below is a video from GoldenEye 007's multi-player map, "Industrial".  In the video, I was playing with TheButcher, from WhoBurnedMyToast.Blogspot.com, and we were communicating via GMail voice-chat, and it worked pretty well:

     I am still playing and enjoying GoldenEye's online multi-player, and I have started working my way back through the single-player campaign on the "Agent" difficulty setting.  I like that the added objectives on "Agent" have already let me see a few different areas of the levels, that I didn't notice or go through my first time playing it.

     Anyway, if anybody has any questions about GoldenEye 007 on the Wii, feel free to ask in the comments below, or send an email to Scott(@)CoffeewithGames.com.  If you already own GoldenEye 007 for the Wii and are playing it online, my GoldenEye 007 friend code is 2043-7355-3797, and my in-game name is Coffee.  Feel free to add me and leave your friend code in the comments, or you can email it to me.

Questions:

     If you own GoldenEye 007, about how many hours have you played the game so far?

If anybody is interested in either GoldenEye 007 version, you can see prices for both on Amazon.com linked below: