Is It True That 3rd Party Games Can't Sell on the Wii? Figures say No.

[Grampy]

plzdontbanme said:

Grampy said:

plzdontbanme said:
projections say no*

Remember the Wii itself was projected to fail and the ps3 was projected to blow the 360 and the Wii out of the water. Projections mean nothing in terms of sales.

I would draw a distinction between predictions made before data is trackable and projections which are based on real trends and numbers and adjusted as data indicates a need. It's not a alien concept, it's done on this site all the time, it's pretty much a stock in trade. Whenever they take a total sales graph and use the extension of the trend to estimate total console sales by the end of 2008, or when the Wii will pass the Xbox360, that's the exact same sort of projection.

Projecting spore sales are the same as projecting when the wii will outsell the 360?  What?

Which is why I carefully segregated it and labeled it as such. I do not think it is as reliable as data such as RE 4where the game is close to reaching the projected lifetime total.