Does a player base know quality?

[mike_intellivision]

By taking the top rated games per console, it removes (some of) the argument over bias against/for a console. It does mean that some high quality games may not make the cut, however.

That being said, the 10 top-rated games account for between one-sixth and one-fifth of their total software sales for the Xbox 360 and PS3. But they only account for one-ninth of the total software sales of the Wii.

This difference is probably the result of a different kind of bias -- bias about types of games. Reviewers do not like games -- as much -- that have a more casual appeal. Thus, many of the Wii's top sellers -- Sports, Play, Fit, Mario Kart -- do not make it into a list of "high quality games" (and only in the case of Wii Play is it truly justified). Those four games have sold an amazing 102.46M copies -- or roughly one-third of the software on the system (Even if you discount Wii Sports, it is estimated to be about 22M unbundled because of the attach rate in Japan where it is not sold with the system. Thus, the software number is probably closer to 80M -- which is still over 27%).

Mike from Morgantown