It's actually kinda interesting considering you would think most of the sports buyers are mainstream gamers but I think with the 2 footballs(American Football and Football) we see that really it's become something more core. Which is surprising but seems to be the way its gone. Possibly due to how long they've been out and successful jsut built out a core base that has stuck with the old brand of Playstation and eventually Xbox. While Ninty was never built up thx to the GC on the sports franchise thus the brand didn't carry over. It was big with N64 but not on GC probably due to the lack of online.
However Wii is making leaps and bounds to get those franchises back onto Ninty consoles in a brand perspective. I mean Madden has sold progressively better on Wii than GC and same with FIFA. But still needs work in the NBA, Hockey, and baseball games. Possibly some intervention from Ninty themselves to help this out would do the trick but that's doubtful.
However, the golf genre has definitely been more towards the Wii this generation. Tiger Woods 08 Wii is the best selling version and more than likely platinum when you add others sales. And Tiger Woods 09 is progressively selling better than the rest. So it is conquering one pro sport haha.
But as I said I think a lot of this simply has to do with the pro sports game becoming less mainstream and more core based over the past 10 yrs and the GC's failure with these sports titles as concerned with brand.
