Nintndo gives proof of third party Wii sales.

[Onyxmeth]

noname2200 said:

Onyxmeth said:

Question: Where does that chart come from? Did Nintendo just casually fax this over to Kotaku? This seems like the kind of thing that Nintendo would call for a small media gathering to talk about it.

I know this is a bit off-topic, but if the 360 and the Wii were selling roughly the same amount of third party software their first 19 months, doesn't that actually show the strength of the 360's software superiority since there were millions less 360s in the first 19 months than Wiis?

 

 

For the first question, some Nintendo exec. did e-mail it to Kotaku (nothing better to do, I suppose? It's certainly not the first time they've made this point to Kotaku...) And actually, they said this exact same thing at their E3 conference. I can understand if you were asleep at the time, though. Oh boy can I understand...

As for your second point, not necessarily. Remember, this is NPD data, not worldwide data, so it only covers the U.S. (which appears to be the region with the smallest gap between the Wii and the HD consoles: it only overtook the 360 a month ago). Granted, the chart probably does show that individual 360 owners purchase slightly more software than individual Wii owners, but I don't think third parties much care how many games individuals buy per se; they want to know how many copies of their own games sold. Put another way, even if Wii owners are less voracious than 360 owners when it comes to purchases, sheer weight of numbers outweighs the 360's advantage.

 

I couldn't keep my weary eyes open during E3. In all seriousness, I just found it odd that Nintendo feels they need to placate Kotaku, like if they were that important.

Regarding the second paragraph, I totally goofed and forgot this was NPD data. I was thinking like this were worldwide software sales. Also my thoughts in my second paragraph weren't actually supposed to connect back to the original point of the topic. It was just an observation on strength of sales on 360, but it's not nearly as large a gap in in hardware sales as I thought, so might as well stricken that paragraph from the record.