How Many Hours Do You Play Sonic Games On Wii?

2 July, 2009 18 October, 2021

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How many hours do you play Sonic games on average? Seven hours to finish it then move onto something else? Maybe 40 hours if you want to get all the best ranks and unlock all the content or maybe even longer? Kotaku have been busy pouring over data released on the Wii’s ‘Nintendo Channel’ and have pulled out the average play time for every Sonic game released for the console sampled from roughly 2.4 million Wii users. If you’d like some information on the maths and how this has been calculated Kotaku have written out a handy guide.

The results, in order of most to least played are as follows:

Average Per-Gamer Playing Time For Wii Sonic Games (as of July 1) (Release Dates in Parentheses)
Sonic Unleashed (November 2008) – 14 hours, 16 minutes
Sonic and the Black Knight (March 2009) – 12 hours, 3 minutes
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (November 2007): 11 hours, 25 minutes
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (January 2008) – 11 hours, 1 minute
Sonic and the Secret Rings (February 2007) – 10 hours, 24 minutes

Unleashed having the most playtime makes sense as it’s arguably the biggest game released for the Wii but Secret Rings in last place is somewhat of a surprise considering the length it stayed in the charts and its popularity at launch.

Sega published Wii game Samba De Amigo makes a list of Wii Music Games at last place with a measly 4 hours 2 mins. Obviously people were drawn in by the fantastic concept of a Monkey with maracas but were put off by the reportedly horrible control scheme at harder difficulties.

Conversely the most played Wii game is Super Smash Bros Brawl which coincidently features Sonic.

Post originally written by the author for TSSZ News.

10 Comments

I played SSBB for 30 hours & unlocked Sonic at 7 a.m then unlocked Snake at 3:30 p.m

I have played Sonic Unleashed over 50 hours, Sonic and the Black Knight 37 hours, Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity 67 hours and Sonic and the Secret Rings over 100 hours and far more.

Sonic Riders Zero Gravity : I played for 17 hours
Sonic Unleashed : 18 hours (Wii) 22 hours (360)
Sonic & the Secret Rings : Play it all night (same time when I got my Wii)
Sonic & the Black Knight : 29 hours & 15 minutes
Mario & Sonic : 10 hours & 20 mintues (Wii) 13 hours (DS)
Sega Superstars Tennis : 15 Hours

Sonic Unleashed(Wii) 33 hrs to beat
Sonic an the Black Knight=9 hrs to beat
Sonic Riders: Zero gravity=7 hours to beat
Sonic and the Secret Rings= 26 hours to beat
Thats all

How do I know how many hours I played the game? 😛
I probobly beat SATBK in under 3 hours on my first playthrough.

Well consider that more people bought Secret Rings than the other games (save for Mario and Sonic). It’s more likely that there are people who just bought SatSR as a cheap Sonic game and only played it for a couple of hours.
@Head Face: You can see how long you’ve played a game per session from the Wii menu.

Wow, for a game that so many people hate, Black Knight sure has had a bit of playtime.

I don’t know how many houers.
I on’t play brawl much since it is one of the worst games for Wii, it is so overrated. It is so bad, I hate. just a waste of money.
But I uasally play Sonic games for many hours since I want to complete missions and so on.
I have actually been playing Sonic Rivals for 995 houres, belive it or not. But I have done that. But that’s not a Wii game, but it is one of the games that I’ve been playing much. PSP is so easy to take with you when you’re going to an other contry for exampel. I played Sonic Rivals like hell when I was in Germany last year.
But I think I’ve been playing Secret Rings for over 60 hours.