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

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noname2200 said:

Oyvoyvoyv said:

noname2200 said:

When Klotz looks at platform-by-platform, the Wii numbers are most significant. "13 percent of the SKUs that were released on the Wii account for 80 percent of the sales." The other platforms, he says, are closer to the 80/20 principle.

I'm just replying to a small part now, but I'll probably write something more later.

There's something odd about the numbers in the article.

The NPD's rather emphatic about not counting Wii Sports, so that's not it. My guess is that the discrepancies come from three sources: the NPD only covers the U.S., the numbers even for the U.S. can be quite different for some titles, and most importantly, I don't believe the NPD limits itself to titles released just this year, but includes all 400+ in its analyses. Considering the fact that Wii Play is an early '07 title, I'd say that's almost necessary.

Hmm, okay that would help it a bit I guess...

440 titles * 13% =  57 titles.

 

That would mean that the 53 titles need 43M, something that makes sense.