Game Types and Sales...

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splatman1981 said:
i would bet that the number of people who bought Zelda: Twilight Princess is the exact number of nintendo fans that own a wii..

interesting though.. i cant seem to find the numbers for that in the charts...

its also an interesting point that although the wii has double the userbase of the ps3.. it doesnt sell many more copies of shooters... red steel or metroid, compared to resistance and cod3.. leading me to believe that the wii userbase is a more casual or young crowd or people.. or old lol.

its also blatently obvious that the 360 is targeted at the us.. sooo many shooters. they probably all sell to the same people too.

although i'll say that this comparison is completely pointless.. were comparing a 2 year old console to two 1 year old consoles.. one of which is more expensive and the other is less expensive... each console has its obvious strengths and weaknesses.

 First disclaimer was not about sales numbers, but rankings, genres, publishers, and exclusives to each respective console.  Point is moot.  Besides,  does this mean this forum should not compare the 360 to Wii/PS3, just because they're a year apart?  I think not.

 I was attempting to use Call of Duty 3 as a test piglett on trying to see how well PS3 CoD3 sales were in Japan compared to the XBox360 in the US, and then possibly how many of those buyers already have a Wii - If there's any correlation that CoD3 buyers own a Wii, and those that own a Wii bought another shooter, you could assume that the reason Wii shooters may not sell as high with multi-platform versions is strictly that they own two consoles.  Obviously CoD3 is probably better on the greater-definition consoles.

By the way, I just enjoyed the new software database listings, being able to list software under 1 million worked out great. 

 

"its also an interesting point that although the wii has double the userbase of the ps3.. it doesnt sell many more copies of shooters... red steel or metroid, compared to resistance and cod3.. leading me to believe that the wii userbase is a more casual or young crowd or people.. or old lol."

 

Going for top 3 shooters 

Total Wii Sales:  12.49 million / (1.02 million Red Steel + RE4 0.82 million + 0.52 million MP3) = 1 shooter game per every 5.29 consoles

Total XBox360 sales:  11.88 million / (5.14 million Halo3 + 4.81 millionGears of War + 1.99 million Call of Duty 2) = 1.01 shooter games per every console

 Wii = 18.9%

 360 = 100.5%

 However, you basically buy a 360 for Halo3...  so the numbers are to be expected that way.  But if you consider the 2.36 million shooter software sales from the top 3 Wii titles (excluding Zelda as I did Oblivion, they're not quite the same in my book), 11.94 million / 2.36 million = 20% ratio.

I'm taking a guess, but I'd say that 20% of 360 owners also own a Wii.  All of the 3 shooters I included for Wii do not sell in Japan worth any notable tipping of the scales.  360 sales do not go well in Japan either, so the numbers go well to compare non-Japan figures.  I say, 20% of 360 owners also own a Wii.  That would mean there would be 2.376 million Wii60's.

You all know these are fabricated numbers based on speculative ideas and have no real factual evidence other than how you spin the numbers.  Kinda like predicting snow storms.