GoNintendo - Netflix sees big support through game consoles, Wii ...

- Nearly 20 percent of peak hour downstream traffic in North America is used for streaming video over Netflix through a home video game console
- traffic from Netflix accounts for more downstream and overall bandwidth usage than all other sources, at 29.7 and 24.71 percent, respectively.
- of that 29.7 percent, the three game consoles that support Netflix (the Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) accounted for the majority of its usage
- when combined, consoles accounted for 66.3 percent of the figure, or 19.7 percent of overall downstream usag
- Users accessing Netflix through a game console (currently Wii, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360) consume around 2.5 GB of bandwidth per day
- PlayStation 3 sees the most Netflix usage, at 30.57 percent of its overall downstream. The Xbox 360 follows at 24.94 percent, Windows PCs at 19.55 percent, and Nintendo's Wii at 10.75 percent

The overall downstream percentages, according to the full report, are as follows:

1. Netflix - 29.70%
2. HTTP (web pages) - 18.36%
3. YouTube - 11.04%
4. BitTorrent - 10.37%
5. Flash video - 4.88%

- service providers have reported that Netflix usage accounts for as much as 55% of peak time downstream in some regions

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Source: http://gonintendo.com/?p=158400

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