Why Hardcore wii games don't sell

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IxisNaugus said:

3: The average 360/PS3 user follows the industry very closely, and also buys software much more frequently than the average Wii user... so while technically the Wii had the biggest userbase, a good chunk of Wii owners, probably around half, just don't buy software that often unless it has "Wii" in the title.

No i'm going to have to disagree with most of this. You cannot say "The average 360/PS3 user follows the industry very closely..." because that isn't entirely true. Like owners of Wii's there are those, probably the majority, who own PS3's/X360's who are also unaware or uninformed. You can say a good chunk of Wii owners don't buy software often, but that can also be applied to owners of other consoles, though maybe not to the same degree but i could argue against that.

Whether they buy more software or not i am unsure, so i wont say anything about that. We can all say "the average wii owner does this" and "the average wii owner does that" but we can only give educated guesses, we don't truly know how things flow or how it could end up in the future. I don't think it's too much of an imagination stretch to say that there are just as many core Wii gamers as there are on other consoles. Don't underestimate the consumer.

I will go even further than that.  Wii owners buy software at a very similar pace as 360/PS3 owners.  I ran the numbers on that using VGC data several months ago.  I used data from the start of the generation through the end of March.  For that time period, Wii owners were buying a new retail game every 9.07 weeks.  PS3 owners were buying a new retail game every 9.47 weeks.  360 owners were buying a new retail game every 9.75 weeks.

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