EA cutting more jobs, issues warnings of lower sales and profit

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DMeisterJ said:
I just found this article:

http://www.gamecyte.com/eas-fiscal-2009-update-sales-down-cuts-imminent

Apparently, the Wii is part of the problem because 2/3 of the sales on the Wii are first-party, something that hasn't happened since pre-PS1 days. Nintendo has Wii software sales on a stranglehold. Their own.

 

 That just isn't true.

We know that VGC is undertracking the total Wii SW data (X360 too, probably Ps3, I dunno about that), and that in end Q3 the shipped was at 230M (which would mean ~ 200M sold I guess, but no t the 170M VGChartz claims), so bear in mind that the number here should be slightly higher on 3rd party (no way we are lacking a lot of data on the Nintendo published games) than what the numbers claim.

 

Take 2008.

Total Wii SW: 119.5M

Estimated 1st party: 65.62M

Thus, the 3rd party is estimated to be: 53.9M

And the 3rd party SW is thus 45% of the total. As I mentioned, VGC is slightly undertracking (or really, not tracking) some 3rd party data, so it seems that ~ 50% for the year seems to be logical (3rd party being slightly on the lower side, 1st party on the higher side).

 

So it isn't 66%

 

PS: If anyone is going to complain about 50% being high, how much of the total budget spent on Wii (by all publishers/developers combined) do you think is by Nintendo? I'd say it should be at least 1/4 (meaning they get less than 2 times back for each dollar than the others do, of course that makes a big change though), and could easily be as high as 1/3, but of course - these are just guesstimations (this paragraph).