Which console will have the most million sellers?

[Squilliam]

Final-Fan said:

Squilliam said:
At this point even with a near doubling of the 360s userbase in the near team the Xbox 360 will continue to stretch its lead over the Wii in terms of million sellers. It will be close, but its also quite a gap to close especially as the Wii tends to have much of its software sales concentrated on: Wii-Play, Wii-Fit, Wii-Sports, Mario-Kart and several others which have already passed the million mark. In effect the legs of the platform work against it for racking up multiple million sellers, but for it in terms of multiple 3+ million sellers.

I hand-counted the numbers of million sellers from that Wikipedia article.  I think I made mistakes on the PS1 and PS2, and these should only be considered rough estimates: 

nes 49
snes 43
n64 38
gamecube 26
xbox 18
ps1 80
ps2 147

As we can see, the number of million sellers on a console increases drastically when the console has 100 million sold.  The Wii will easily pass that number; the 360 will not even come close.

I did say "near term", I didn't say forever. Besides this it looks like the Xbox 360 will blow past the PS1 figure this year with fewer than half the install base. That figure of 147 million sellers from the PS2 isn't safe from the Xbox 360 either. The very condition that "HD games need to sell a million or more to make money" is the same reason why it continues to ratchet up the million sellers so quickly.

A console with cheap to develop software will have a lot of releases, so I would expect that the Wii will have a much higher % of software below the million mark and a much higher % of million sellers to be multi-million sellers.