3rd Party Sales – A Comparison Between All 3 Consoles – WITH NUMBERS

[Grampy]

@ bumidan
I take where you are going and it’s not so much that I disagree but I do have a concern, which I discussed in another thread.

Neal Simon has said that he will never open another show on Broadway because it’s become too expensive even for someone with his proven track record to try anything new. That’s why Broadway has become dominated by revivals and sequels. No one can afford to take a chance on anything that’s not already proven.

I think we are already seeing this happening already. What are the major hits today. I looked at the >1 Million selling games for each platform. By my best estimate:
-The PS3 has 13, of which 11 are sequels (85%)
-The Xbox 360 has 44, of which 29 are sequels (66%)
-The Wii has 26, of which 13 are sequels or near sequels (50%)
There seems to be a strong inverse correlation between development costs and new and original games. I for one am not particularly looking forward to COD48 and GTA112.

So I don’t doubt we will see blockbusters in HD but the question is are they going to be the same blockbusters over and over and over again.