Oyvoyvoyv said:
Wait... What does this have to do with anything? Not only is this wrong, it also has nothing to do with the topic. Or is it just your way of saying "The Wii is outselling the HD consoles by heaps"?
On topic again, this is a list of all games that have made 10M in a single region. Americas: SMB - 29.52M Duck Hunt - 27.34M Tetris - 23.55M Wii Sports - 15.58M Super Mario World - 12.97M Pokemon R/B - 11.44M The Sims - 11.39M Super Mario Land - 10.99M
Others: Wii Sports - 12.7M Nintendogs - 10.59M
Japan: Pokemon Red/Blue - 10.24M
So there has never been a non-bundled game that has made 10M in a single territory. In reality, all games have seen almost all their sales from bundles, save for Pokemon Red/Blue and Nintendogs. Still, no doubt - SMB would have made 10M in Americas anyway.
So the real reason that there is only Nintendo games here, is that they are the only one who has bundled games with hardware for a long period. Otherwise, there would probably only have been 4 games here.
So what we are seeing with Wii Play is historical. It will be the first game that has never been bundled to pass 10M in a single territory - and it is likely to be the 2nd to ever pass it in 2 areas.
So for this generation, I see the following games passing 10M in a single area. Wii Sports (Americas + Others) Wii Play (Americas + Others) Wii Fit (Others) Nintendogs (Others)
And in the "maybe" pile. Mario Kart Wii (Others) Wii Fit (Americas) Nintendogs (Americas), needs 2.31M more. Brain Training (Others), needs 2.7M more. |
Nintendo has the mass market this gen and that is their saving grace. The sales of the past will go to fewer and fewer games this gen on the next gen consoles. With the economy being the way it is, I only see things going slowly. Only the most deserving consoles with profitable and active installed bases will sell big. The only system doing this is Nintendo and the 360 is struggling beind them.
