wii's 3rd party lack of success...could it be an isse on the long run?

[steven787]

Another place to look is the annual sales.  Too bad there is no total software for other.  Trying to remain unbiased.

Software Totals:

NA for 2007 so far. 

Console	Year	Total
DS	17,761,346	55,455,829
X360	16,405,573	42,467,314
Wii	13,772,337	18,420,653
PS2	12,980,720	46,960,357
PSP	7,248,906	34,453,053
PS3	5,262,097	6,779,079
GC	1,643,551	15,370,964
XB	802,453	11,350,420
GBA	325,986	3,247,281
Total	76,202,969

 JPN for 2007 so far.

Console	Year	Total
DS	23,788,974	75,931,688
Wii	6,843,919	8,878,362
PS2	6,469,444	121,391,709
PSP	3,244,526	11,860,349
PS3	1,421,741	1,892,357
360	653,729	1,548,099
GBA	396,419	47,806,632
DC	15,714	8,646,086
GC	13,474	21,533,966
Total	42,847,940

In JPN and NA Wii has sold 20,616,256 units of software, 360 has sold 17,059,302.

Take out Wii Sports (JPN and NA about 4.5 million this year): 16,200,000 est.

Take out all Nintendo published software (estimating 12.5 million in Wii software for Nintendo in '07.) leaves you about 8 million in third party software so far (this year), this may not sound like much but if you consider the crap third parties are pumping out...

For 360  take out all MS software and that leaves you with more than the 8 million from Wii 3rd Parties: about 13 million.

 If you add in OTHER that it probably closes the gap on the total software, and widens the 3rd party gap.

/end unbiased segment

Not bad for just catching up on hardware this week.