Stromprophet on 30 March 2007
albionus said:
Stromprophet said:
2. Aside from Gran Turismo, which has sold over 5 million last generation? None of them. Look at the Dec, Jan, and Feb US top 50 games charts, Dec - 3 Sony (2,717k)/13 Nintendo (7,761k), Jan - 2 Sony (782k)/14 Nintendo (2,724k), Feb - 4 Sony (627k)/16 Nintendo (2,526k). I would agree Sony games are mediocre at best but that is obviously opinion, saying they don't sell terribly well is fact especially given Sony's 100 million unit system.
3. In the NA/JP Jan and Feb the Wii outsold the PS3/360 (1,618k vs 1,294k). It won't in March since the PS3 just sold more in Europe in 3 days than it has in the entire rest of the world over the last 3 months. If Euro PS3 sales track the way they have everywhere else and if Nintendo increases Wii supply the Wii will continue outselling the HD systems. If you're arguing that the HD systems will beat the SD systems you should include the PS2 since like the Wii it's also beating the HD systems. Unless you limited your argument to only next-gen systems but that sort of limits the impact of the point also.
Wow, what a hater.
First of all. These are the figures that matter.
PS2 2,372,750
360 2,080,750
DS 1,974,250
Wii 1,590,250
That would be the monthly software units sold. What was that? Wii is 4th. And lastly, adding the DS software in with the Wii (which you are doing) and then comparing it to the other consoles shows complete Bias.
Nintendo is primarily responsible for most of their game publishing unlike the other competitors. So of course they are going to have a ton of titles in the top whatever. But overall, they are getting outsold in software units even as hot as the system is.
Uh. Last Gen what Nintendo First Party titles sold more than 5 million? 3 and Barely more than 5 million. Yeah, cause having 100 million consoles is a bad thing. You Wii guys are ridiculous. When you have a massive library (making Nintendos look insignificant last gen) sales of Individual games are less simply because you have a lot of seleciton. Regardless....Sony still makes some damn fine games.
God of War 2 is Game of the Year right now and only 2 games probably even have a shot of knocking it off. That would be GTA IV and Halo 3. I don't see a nintendo title even coming close.
Nintendo shouldn't even have to increase the supply, you can get one right now in the US and have been able to for a while. If sales went down from 450k to 350k in NA how is it there is a shortage? What did Nintendo actually decrease supply and will now increase supply?
I'm arguing about this generation of systems, which the PS2 is not a part of. The single and only reason that Nintendo was able to outsell the other 2 the last 2 months in total is Japan. Regardless, moving forward from this month on we will see. I'm not including the PS2 cause those are not new purchases in my mind. They are purchases from very low end consumers that are just now entering the console market and have little bearing on this generations fight. The comparison is whether new purchasers are choosing the similar HD systems or the cheaper non-hd Wii. And it's about dead even.
Oh yeah, in the US this year, Americans will buy 55 million Hi-def sets. That's way more than any of the consoles will be selling and I think people will want to take advantage of those sets.
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