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Dr.Vita said:
Esiar said:

I said indiviual games, as in, stand-alone copies. I.e., PS4 GTA V is one game, XBO is one, PS3 is one, etc.  Not the game's collective sales across all platforms.


You are allowed to count games which were heavily bundled with Wii.
We are not allowed to count sales of third-party games together.

Seems legit...


So all top 15 were heavily bundled with the Wii? Didn't think so...



I bet the Wii U would sell more than 15M LTD by the end of 2015. He bet it would sell less. I lost.

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A very long time.

I can't exactly see another game topping Wii Sports anytime soon.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

I thought tetris sold more than wii sports



Dr.Vita said:
Esiar said:

I said indiviual games, as in, stand-alone copies. I.e., PS4 GTA V is one game, XBO is one, PS3 is one, etc.  Not the game's collective sales across all platforms.


You are allowed to count games which were heavily bundled with Wii.
We are not allowed to count sales of third-party games together.

Seems legit...

A lot of games are bundled. GTA V was bundled for the PS3 if I remember correctly. If you don't include bundles it's a complete guessing game.



Can't wait for The Zelder Scrolls 3: Breath of The Wild Hunt!

Not sure how to feel about Wii Sports... it's technically the greatest "killer App" in history, just ahead of Tetris and Super Mario Bros.

It's a pretty underwhelming game but I remember having fun with it, sooo.... Yeah, donno how to feel about it.



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Esiar said:
Dr.Vita said:


You are allowed to count games which were heavily bundled with Wii.
We are not allowed to count sales of third-party games together.

Seems legit...

A lot of games are bundled. GTA V was bundled for the PS3 if I remember correctly. If you don't include bundles it's a complete guessing game.

PS3 and PS4.

 



To be fair, even for Nintendo will be difficult to break their own numbers.



Esiar said:
Dr.Vita said:


You are allowed to count games which were heavily bundled with Wii.
We are not allowed to count sales of third-party games together.

Seems legit...

A lot of games are bundled. GTA V was bundled for the PS3 if I remember correctly. If you don't include bundles it's a complete guessing game.

heavily and limited bundle isn't the same thing, otherwise, GTA 5 will be even higher.  Wii sports was bundle practically the whole generation except Japan I believe.  IMO Mario kart Wii and Wii sport resort have more impressive numbers than Wii sports because they weren't heavily bundled.



That will never change. Nothing will beat Wii Sports or Mario Kart Wii on an individual platform. Perhaps GTA VII could reach 30m on the PS4 but I don't think so.



    

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JNK said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Nintendo don't even have the top 2, let alone the top 15. Forgetting that GTA V has sold over 50m already are you?


the Pc version, xbox 360, ps3, ps4 and xbox one versions of gta V are technically not the same.

 

OT: Android games and iOS games already sold better. "real" games whise i doubt anything will break this leadership soon.

According to who? According to R* it's all one game. In their financials they just say X amount of GTA sold this quarter, they might break down platform %, but you can only have a % break down if you count all the sales combined as a single total. If R* was in this conversation they would say, actually we're #2 with GTAV, you gonna argue with them?

It is truly impressive what Nintendo is able to achieve in software sales when their hardware sells well. Just look at Wii, doesn't come close to PS2 level of sales yet, aside from Wii Sports autobundling it had games that sold 15 million more than the highest PS2 game. But this thread is a misdirected attempt to blow Nintendo's trumpet. The thread title could more accurately be called "Nintendo: best platform for selling its own games".



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