What the hell are you going on about?

Whoa. I feel sheepish. I'd even read it and somehow missed that.

I retract my statement!

Edit: But I think the title is misleading and that it is a strange and arbitrary rule to apply.

I bet you were one of those people who, not long ago, said NSMB Wii was just a port of the DS version.

Now you are backtracking, of course.

Comparing the combined sales of multi-platform games is a backwards way of measuring games sales. NPD recently did this with their "top 10 best selling games" and they got "Namco Museum" in their top 10 list.

I'm sure you remember Namco Museum, don't you? Oh you don't? Well it apparently outsold Grand Theft Auto 4, somehow. That's because when you combine the 40 odd platforms that it was released on, you get amazing sales.

Same goes for Guitar Hero 3, Madden 07, and all the Call of Duty games on that list. When you combine the sales across platforms it distorts things.

This is not to say Modern Warfare 2 is not a strong selling title. But my guess is that if it was exclusive to X-box or PS3, it wouldn't be reaching 15 million as fast as 2d Mario.

Stop whining, you need to get laid.

Nope, I don't take notice of what games come out for wii, or it's sales. You think I'm some sort of wii basher just because I'm bringing this incorrect news title into focus. You have a jaded view of folk on here clearly ...

All I'm seeing is you trying to say multiplatform games don't count. MW2 is A game, 1 platform or 3, as long as it isn't any different, it's the same game. MW2 is the same on PS3 and 360, therefore it's the fastest game to reach 15 million.

No its not, new super mario bros wii has way better level design than new super mario bros and none of the leves excpet for the first one are the same. a port implies is all they did was make the exact same game and just put it on the wii

also the article was referring to NSMBW being the fastest to reach 15 million on a single console, how hard is that to get

Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, available for the two HD platforms - which have a slightly bigger base than Wii - reached 15 million units combined at an earlier date than New Super Mario Bros. Wii while launching at roughly the same time. However, the availability of the title on multiple platforms effectively doubles its "time" on the market.


Is this the "reasoning"?

I added an edit. It does seem like an arbitrary rule added.

In a sense yes, although I'd wager dollars to donuts WoW didn't beat NSMBWii to 15 million. However there is a separate context that I obviously did not fully flesh out. Thesource's article is clearly talking about sales within certain contexts. In this case how quickly a game reached 15 million on a single platform. The rebuttal is that outside of that context it isn't true as MW2 sold 15 million faster across two platforms. Once you go down that road though you have to look at it holistically which no one in this thread has the data for.

So unless Seece has a different way of explaining it I will stand by my point. Within the context of the article Thesource is right and justifies it entirely. Trying to take the statements out of context and put them up against a different set of criterion is entirely dishonest. More so when the person doesn't actually have the data needed to support the claim using their own criteria.

It took MW2 8 weeks to hit 15 million, even if we take Sources silly idea about it having effectively double the amount of time. That makes it 16 weeks.

16 weeks faster than NSMB

basically, unless the game is exclusive, it doesn't count.