mrstickball on 25 March 2007
Well if you remove Wii sport from the equation 3rd party software combined has sold more than Nintendo offerings, the tie ratio for 3rd party is 1.588. I am following the 3rd party software market in USA for Wii so you will get an update on these numbers after next month numbers is out.
But thats not Japan...
The tie ratio minus Wii Sports is a decent 1.5 for 3rd parties (which still isn't that good, only when you consider the # of systems sold, is it good). In Japan, minus Wii Sports, third parties still sell only about 1/4th the amount Nintendo does.
For the DS - 3rd parties are doing good. However, there ARE 15m units of DSes in Japan out there...There IS a huge base out there, making it nearly impossible for 3rd parties to sell bad. When there are that many units out there, it gives devs incentives. The Wii seems to have a lower tier ratio for 3rd parties when it shouldn't. The DS is around a 5.0 tier ratio, which is good for a handheld. However, for consoles, they typically end up at a 10.0 tier ratio. At the rate the Wii is going at, 3rd parties would only recieve around 1.0 of the 10.0 games sold per Wii in Japan, and maybe 4.0~4.5 in the US...Which is pretty good for the US, but absolutely poor for Japan...That'd mean there'd only be around 1 3rd pary game sold per Wii @ 20m units. Thats aweful!
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
