Thre needs to be an asterik by Wii Sports Numbers.

[txrattlesnake]

"Those people are idiots, and not the majority of buyers. It didn't make the 360 sell "more." They would have to manufacture more units for that to happen. That kind of panic where people pay more than retail happens AFTER something has "sold out." It doesn't inflate demand. It inflates eBay resale prices."

Something had to happen to increase people's demands to the point where they would be willing to pay such staggering prices and it was shortages. The Wii never hit such a price point but many people were buying it for anywhere fro9m $400.00 to $800.00 in bundles which seemed to be the only thing stores where offering for it when its actual retail price Christmas '06 was $250.00.

"I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you implying that the Wii would be selling better if it did not have as many amazing first-party sequels to beloved classics?

"Or are you just trying to say "Look at Japan, even the PS3 is outselling it."? Because the Wii is selling more than the PS3 and 360 combined worldwide. It can afford to slow down a bit for now in Japan, where it currently has 65.63% of the total userbase."

If they hadn't felt compelled to push all those games out early, then they wouldn't be having the game drought there having now which is resulting in the Wii not selling quite as well as it was thought that it would be this point in time. Last fall many were saying it would sell 50 million by the end of March '09. Well, we're in May and it has passed 50 million yet.





"You conveniently ignored my longer explanation. The Wii has the best games of every generation on it, and the best games for the new gaming community it helped create. So it is winning.

I didn't say that 2-D games or point-and-click adventure games don't exist, and I'm glad they're still around. But 2-D platformers is not the dominant genre anymore. There was a time where more then 2/3rds of games were 2-D platformers. Now that's almost the case with FPS games.

I could probably list about 8 billion new shooters if you'd like to get the point I was making."

The best selling games on Wii are more family friendly games and those games have outsold all of the fps and or mature games on the system (even though some of those are higher rated than lower selling games on the console)

. Games like Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games and Carnival Games, two of the Wii's best selling games, are two more examples of games that are looking back more on an older era of gaming.