Grampy on 29 August 2008
It seems there is a strong correlation between development cost and installed base and games sell (not surprising) and that has to be good news for Wii and DS owners. The unfortunate exception is the PSP which by every parameter has seriously underperformed. The Wii is doing well having the largest library, a 10M seller (non-bundled) and the greatest total sales by top ten games for a non-handheld, and surprisingly close to even the DS.
(Data from VG Chartz) * Excludes Wii Sport ** Nintendogs should >20M by Xmas
| Platform | Base(m) | Release |
Dev. Cost (est) |
Library | >10M | >1M | Total Sales Top 10 |
| DS | 79.4 | 11/04 | 1-3 M | 1604 | 7** | 54 | 113 M |
| PSP | 37.7 | 12/04 | 3-8 M | 674 | 0 | 23 | 30 M |
| Wii | 31.5 | 11/06 | 3-12 M | 622 | 1* | 27 | 95 M* |
| Xbox 360 | 20.4 | 11/05 | 6-40 M | 477 | 0 | 42 | 43 M |
| PS3 | 15 | 11/06 | 8-60 M | 360 | 0 | 15 | 28M |
