NPD: Wii software sales are more concentrated on a few titles than 360/PS3

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noname2200 said:

psrock said:

noname2200 said:

mrstickball said:

noname2200 said:

mrstickball said:

You are leaving out how many games both Sony and MS realeased as well, which i doubt can even reach the amount on the wii.  The lesser amount of games, the bigger amount the games have to share.

The amount of games released does not, in fact, compare (I don't have the exact figures on hand, but I believe the ratio is roughly 4:3:2 Wii/360/PS3).

Nonetheless, you're making the assumption that sales are evenly distributed amongst those titles. Do you have any proof of that assertion? This site's data claims that the vast majority of Wii games (the shovelware, essentially) sells proportionate to their developers' efforts. Can you refute that?

famousringo said:
I see a lot of people looking at the effect without paying much attention to the cause. There's still only one publisher who's heavily invested in the Wii, with Sega and a lot of smaller Japanese publishers just now coming on board.

The sales are concentrated because the investment is concentrated. Nobody comes close to spending as much on Wii development as Nintendo. Are they going to compete, or are they just going to let Nintendo have all the cash?

While I personally agree, I feel compelled to omit this argument in this thread for two reasons. First, it's introducing an element that's immeasurable. Second, and more importantly, the stellar sales of many small-to-modest budget third-party Wii games (is there any other kind?) argue that the money thrown at the system does not translate directly into proportionate sales. I risk cheerleading if I continue this train of thought, so I'll limit myself to "you don't seem to need big budgets to get big sales."

For now, it's fine, but when 3rd party starts to really invest in the wii, do you think things will change ?

The wii demographic doesnt care about high budget games, they want to have fun. I think its going to be hard to compete against the Nintendo games.