And so...the 360 Won in North America this gen....whats for sony now?

[goddog]

Jordahn said:

goddog said:

steven787 said:
In the sales discussion, Wii is #1. Any talk of 360 being number one should be in the gaming discussion, whether referencing sales or anything else... ;)

Seriously, why is the Wii never counted.

360 has the top total software and third party software for America.

Wii is 100m-53m=47m, 360 131-28= 103. Now I believe this is because third parties think like you do, and don't think about the Wii. They are bad business people and are throwing away potential business by making no compelling software for the average NA "core" gamer.

As a PS3 owner, I think it's pretty obvious why 360 killed the PS3. Price, Earlier Launch, Halo 3, and online experience. I could argue why I bought a PS3, but what I think about the console doesn't matter to sales across the continent.

 

the wii is not counted because its not an interesting part of the race, we all know where the wii is headed. so why talk about it? where the race could still change is the 360/ps3 much like last gen the xbox/gc was what was fun to talk about, because every one new neither would beat the ps2

Wii should be counted because as I've always said $250 on a Wii is that much less to buy somethine else.  This is contrete, not abstract.  It also helps keep the 360 and PS3 fanboys in their place, but then again, there will always be those who are lost forever.  I sure hope not.

 

 

its not that its abstract or concrete, it simply has to do with fun and plausibility. right now it is not plausible for either of the HD consoles to outsell the wii at almost any price, the people arguing in the thread (most of them anyway) realize this. so they have moved onto a topic of debate that is still up in the air. this gives them leverage to make hypothesis for others to debate. 

now if you want the wii involved the question becomes can the hd consoles somehow maintain 50% market share? you could go open that thread.

but in here the battle is for second and third, with lively debate on each side, and the wii dose not enter into it because it will not end up in third or second