Matt Peckham in his PC World blog today points to the DFC report published in Gamasutra about the prospects for each system.
He notes that Wii owners have bought 2.8 games per system so far, PS3 owners have bought 3.0 games per system, and Xbox 360 owners have bought 5.5 games. This appears to be accurate.
However, he dismisses DFCs note that this is not too bad for the Wii given its current software lineup. Instead, he calls the system a Gamecube with motion sesnors and essentially dismisses it as a fad. http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/005579.html
He also ignores two things. First the system comes with a game, so people don't have to buy software upon hardware purchase. More importantly, if you annualize the figures (basically accounting for the Xbox 360s one year head start), they come out much differently. Wii owners buy 3.36 games on a yearly basis, still less than PS3 owners (3.6) but more than 360 owners (3.0).
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