3rd party Wii sales graph

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kingofwale said:

RenegadePhantasm said:

Here's a look at how 3rd party games compare in number of sales on the Wii. For this data I used the top 100 selling games in the US each for the Wii and 360 and separated into 1st party and 3rd party published games. I also took the top 50 selling games on each platform for this week. This graph shows that there haven't been as many 3rd party huge sellers on the Wii. It doesn't take the budget of the game into account, so it is difficult to tell whether or not 3rd parties have found success on the Wii.

 

This was somewhat inspired by this Kotaku article, http://kotaku.com/5034951/heres-that-wii-third-party-sales-proof-you-requested?cpage=3 . Since the Wii has had more games in total released for it, the total 3rd party sales are more than on the other consoles.

nice diagram. it's clear that most of the blue dots are focusing on the bottom.

except for two.. let me guesss... Mario and Sonic, and Wii Play? ;)

Both with Nintendo's help.. one with Nintendo Mascot, another packed in the controller.

You do realize that the first line is 500k units right?  500k is great sales for WW, for the US only its outstanding.

@Topic,

A few points:

- Until very recently the 360 installed base was still larger in the US, so 360 games in the US should, on the average, outperform Wii games.

- The US is the 360's strongest market, not only in hardware sales, but especially in software sales where the 360's library is largely focused on appealing to this market, so they should perform quite well here.

- 3rd Party support for the Wii was lackluster from launch until the later half of '07 (longer depending on who you ask), shouldn't be surprising for the 40+ week games as a group to underperform