| The said: ^Let's talk about 2009....right off the bat , from the top of my head I can tell you these hits from the first quarter which is about to end in a few days: |
Again, you're comparing apples to oranges. Wii games don't normally have large 1st week sales, they sell at a slow, steady rate for months and months.
Wii Fit just eclipsed Halo 3's sales in NA. I called that before launch but vertually no one else did. No one ever would have based purely off 1st week sales.
If we're talking Core games, Wii hasn't had any releases comparable to RE5, SF4, KZ2 or HW. HoTD isn't that big a franchise, but it should hit 1m copies eventually. Madworld? New IP, niche title. And what else has come out? Tenchu? Small fry but did bomb. Deadly Creatures? Guaranteed bomb irregardless of system. Onechanbara? Like the 360 version did so much better? Dead Rising? HUGE bad publicity killed any early sales this could have ever hoped for. It might have legs though. Time will tell but no one (should) expect it to sell as well as it did on 360.
Wii is a very different audience than 360/PS3. It sells a lot of titles that the HD system wouldn't.
The only question should be if 'core' games can sell and be profitable on Wii. And that's been proven again and again as yes. HD systems will sell them in greater quanity, no surprise there, but also at much higher development costs and much bigger risk. As such most core games will continue to goto the HD trio PS3/360/PC but I expect Wii will continue to get the big well known franchises (RE, CoD, Tomb Raider, likely some Tom Clancy or PoP title in time) and more risky titles.
