On The Verge of A Gaming Crash? Without Nintendo....

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mrstickball said:

Khuutra said:
mrstickball, isn't the Wii version of The Force Unleashed outselling both of the other versions on a weekly basis and is, in fact, about to pass up the PS3 version in lifetime sales?

Just to point that out.

And no, Zack and Wiki and No More Heroes were not big-budget. They were anything but. They also made tidy profits.

Actually, no. The X360 vesion of TFU outsold the Wii version last week.

Here are the totals from VGC Worldwide:

5

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

LucasArts

12

44,581

1,328,066

6

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

LucasArts

12

43,164

826,372

9

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

LucasArts

12

32,727

899,154

And need I remind you that the Wii has outsold both consoles in the respective markets (NA and PAL) where this game was huge? TFU is one of the better sellers for the Wii, but it still is down ~500,000 units versus the X360 and ~70,000 on the PS3 (although it's obvious it'll pass the PS3). Is that considered 'good' for a console that has well over twice the install base of the PS3?

 

But you don't seem to get that the Wii version probably cost 1/4th of the cost of the HD versions, thereby making a much bigger profit than the other two.

 

 

If I ran a business where product X costs me 20 dollars to make, and I sell 500 of them. And product Y costs me 5 dollars to make, but I sell 250 of them, and say both products cost about the same at retail, which one of those products do you think I'd be more impressed with?