Zombies Dominating the Wii? Call of Duty: Black Ops Dominating U.S. Wii FPS Hours

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Call of Duty: Black Ops was released on November 9, 2010 for the Wii. The game was developed by Treyarch and published by Activision, and received an ESRB rating of "Mature" with "Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language" listed as content for parents and games to be aware of.

This past November, we took a look at Call of Duty: Black Ops' reported play-time over its first year on the Wii. It had already racked up over 10 million hours, and had become the most played FPS Wii game in the United States, per Wii owner, according to the reported data.

How many hours have Wii owners reported playing Black Ops in the last 7 months, perhaps spending many of those hours battling zombies? Brew some coffee on this fine day, and let's take a look!

Official U.S. Nintendo Channel data

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Call of Duty: Black Ops now has approximately 177,173 U.S. Wii owners that have reported data through the Nintendo Channel, which is an increase of 43,012 U.S. Wii owners that have reported data since November 21, 2011.

The game has an average play-time per day/session now reported of 2 Hours 38 Minutes, a 6 minute decrease over the last average per session reported. The game's average hours reported "Per person" now being 81 Hours 53 Minutes is 3 Hours 32 Minutes higher than the last reported average.

Black Ops' current 14,506,333 Total Hours of reported game-play data is an increase of nearly 4 million more hours in the last 7 months.

Call of Duty: Black Ops on the Wii has a "professional" review score average of 81.47%, based on 17 reviews on GameRankings.com.
The game's customer review score average is 76.88% though, based on 135 customer reviews from Amazon.com.

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I haven't played my PS3 copy of Black Ops in close to a year now, though I have played some Modern Warfare 3 on the Wii since it released. If you never saw how Activision was marketing Black Ops, the first video below shows two clips they used for helping market the game:


With Black Ops 2 officially having been revealed, Activision and Treyarch have been busy now talking about the game and showing some of it off. If you haven't watched anything on Black Ops 2 yet, the video below is a "Behind the Scenes Preview" for the game, which I thought was pretty cool:


I mentioned in an older post, "Based off the play-time data currently reported for CoD:WaW, I think it will be the Wii's most reported played FPS game, until the next Nintendo console is released."

I thought Call of Duty: World at War would be the Wii's "most played" FPS game with "Total Hours" reported until Nintendo's next console released, that we now know as the Wii U this holiday season, but seeing the number of hours Black Ops has been increasing, it may very well become the Wii's most played FPS game "Per person" and with "Total Hours" reported in the U.S., before the Wii U releases later this year.

Questions
Have any of you been playing Call of Duty: Black Ops on the Wii, or even PS3 or 360, regularly since it released? Is the Zombie Mode one reason you keep returning to the game, or just the regular multiplayer?

If you are a fan of the Call of Duty series in general, but perhaps don't purchase every single game for the series that releases, do you plan on purchasing Black Ops 2 when it releases later this year?

You can see Black Ops and Black Ops 2 on Amazon.com below: