I figured out why 3rd parties hesitate to put their best teams on Wii games

[Pristine20]

Khuutra said:

Pristine20 said:

I didn't realize that DoA was such a blockbuster title. I'll concede that one.

I think by "videogames" you meant console games. I only know about one popular blizzard series which is an MMo that people subscribe to. I don't know how to compare that to console games. I'll agree that people seem to put valve on a pedestal as well. However, I don't think valve games have the breakaway sales that nintendo's games have. I'm not sure though so feel free to prove me wrong.

Starcraft sold something like 10 million copies alone, Warcraft 3 also sold an absurd amount... and Valve? The first Half-Life alone topped over eight million copies.

My use of the term "breakaway" sales was to compare the sales of "x" games in question to the sales of other games on the platform. Usually for a platform, You'd expect game sales to "closely follow" each other PC has so many games and it's hard to determine their actual sales so I find it difficult to use them to make arguments or to counter arguments against them. Ususally, for nintendo platforms, most of their games are "break away" while the sales of other publishers languish in mediocrity.