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A new study has rung the alarm bells for Nintendo, as very few of the Wii games have any online functionality or support, which is not a very smart thing in this epoch of gaming, according to a study conducted by Electronic Entertainment Design and Research.

The study has concluded that games with online functionality rake in double the moolah than offline games. Even games with minimal online features have a 25% sales advantage over the offline games. They reached this conclusion after studying 400 video games (that many games make for fancy guinea pigs) for the XBOX 360, PS3 and Wii.

Also, the study crowned XBOX 360 as the king of online gaming, with 77% of 360 games having online functionality compared to only 23% of the PS3 games and an appalling 2% of Wii games.

The significance of online functionality in games did not need a conformation from any study, but Nintendo mandarins might take not of this fact in light of the study. Even Sony needs to wake up to this fact, as a majority of its games remain offline.

More gamers might tilt in favor of the 360, if the famine of games with online functionality on the PS3 and Wii does not subside. Even the game developers need to tame the golden online-gaming-goose, as they are loosing out on a great opportunity to maximize revenues.

It is a well-known fact that this is the age of online gaming, when gamers feel robbed without any online support for games they buy—they want to squeeze every single penny’s worth out of a game.

Read [Gamepro]