WereKitten on 11 April 2009
Counting the titles of different genres is not a good indicator if you don't take in account the relative weight (in sales) of those titles.
If you take the top 25 sellers on each platform, categorize them, then calculate the percentage of sales of each category versus total sales of top 25 you get:
PS3 360 FPS 23.71% 36.44%Action/Shooter 19.02% 19.39%
Racer 16.01% 4.38%
Action/Adventure 9.69% 11.55% Platformer 6.18% 0.00%
Sport 15.39% 5.14%
Music/Rythm 3.17% 9.81%
RPG 2.33% 13.30%
Hack/Slash 4.49% 0.00%
Standard deviation 7.26% 10.19%
Draw your own conclusions from the numbers.
Some of my choices for how to categorize some games could be discussed of course, but I think they are reasonable. The detailed data are in a spreadsheet.
