mrstickball said:
See, here's the problem: The X360, PS2 and PS3, despite their userbases, manage to sell core titles. Not as much as they used to, but despite the userbases, there have been some successes, again despite the user bases. You have to realize something is wrong with your userbases' buying habits (the Wii's) when Metal Gear Solid 4 on PS3 can nearly outsell your top 2, 3rd party games on another system with well over twice the userbase. Here's the damning list against the Wii of Top 3rd Party Console Games. All next-gen systems, with games above 100,000 units sold:
As it stands, The Playstation 3 is the best seller of 3rd party software over 100k (and most likely entirely). Period. Maybe that's me, but if console has almost 1/3rd the hardware units in the wild, yet are outselling your competition, there's a massive problem. I'm not going to comment further than this, because I think the numbers speak for themselves. |
This list proves absolutely nothing.
Well, that's not true. It proves that the big franchises that sold very well on PS2 are still very popular. And that these big 3rd party franchises are not on Wii. Closest comes Dragon Quest Swords, which is absolutely ridiculous to compare with MGS4. And maybe Tales, which sold fine. Problem for the 3rd parties is: they don't have many big franchises coming for Wii. Capcom does and is going to sell over a million Monster Hunters. And the new Dysnasty Warriors is on Wii and should be a testcase.
Also you act like Nintendo games don't matter, but the truth is that they compete with the 3rd party games. Mario Kart, Brawl, Galaxy and Twilight Princess all sold over 500.000. Not to mention things like WiiSports and WiiFit.
