Anybody Notice The PS3 Is About To Pass The Wii In HW To SW Tie Ratio WW

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1 Why is this happening?

Well, Wii kinda started with a +1 lead, considering that it has Wii Sports resort. If you go back a year, it was actually 4.49 vs 3.52! Ps3 has been slowly selling more. Furthermore, it's always like this. The more hardware you sell, the higher ratio is mainstream users. Mainstreasm users buy less software than the more rabid users (or "hardcore").

2 The Wii has more than double the HW out shouldnt it have a better Ratio like the 360 does?

That's just wrong. More hardware sold means less software sold, because of the reason I explained above (mainstream vs rabids)

3 The PS3 came out about 6 months later in EU than the Wii yet it has a better Ratio in that Region?

The ratio usually increases with time, so this is against the normal logic. It means that the average Ps3 owner in Europe is more hardcore than the average Ps3 owner WW, compared to Wii owners.

4 PS3 games cost 60$ while most Wii games are 50$ and lower?

Yeah, that's correct (and 2 of the Wii games actually total out around 20$ each (Wii Sports + Wii Play, which over 40% own both of, and 90% own 1 of). 

5 It looks like the problem to me is that most multis are selling better on the PS3 doesnt the fact that the Wii has motion controls in turn advance the gameplay sway the audience to buy the Wii version?

Not really. Wii owners tend to buy Nintendo made games (3rd party sales on Ps3 are roughly equal to Wii, so no advantage from scratch there), and the multiplats generally have "tacked on" motion. 

6 The Wii even has SW being tracked for every console sold with Wii Sports!?

Well, except for Japan. 

7 Most of the top games for the Wii have come out while PS3s heavy hitters (GT5, GOW3, FF, Twisted Metal)are about to come out?

That's not really correct. It's unlikely that Nintendo will leave the Wii without software. 

8 The Wii has a bigger game library doesnt that mean a bigger HW to SW ratio?

It has a bigger library yeah, but also sold more. The total number of games is pretty equal to the total units sold.

 

Hope I answered your questions