Fun Fact: Game sales Wii vs. PS3

[aragod]

Alterego-X said:

aragod said:

Faxanadu said:

According to vgchartz, the Wii has over 600 games that already sold copies to consumers, whereas the PS3 has less than 400 (about 360).

To me, this explains Wii dominance.

Does it count if 99% of the Wii library is shovelware shit? The reason for Wii dominance is that everyone was amazed by the motion (gimicky) controlls at first (me included). Later most people realize, that the game offering and value / cost just ins't worth it. Unless they have no other console to play with, they usualy move on.

It doesn't explain why the Wii keeps dominating hardware and software sales after years...  

Well actually it does. The exact reason why Wii keep to dominate hardware and software sales is that they've expanded the consumer group by adding a non-gamer folk. And those people did not buy Wii to play great and quality games, but fell for the gimmicky controller and something which could be called "Apple" effect. Why did someone's grandma get a Wii? Well it certainly wasn't for games in the most common sense, she won't be playing quality Wii titles such as SMG, Zelda or Metroid, but instead she'll use Wii Fit.

And that's a fact, of this whole console generation Wii has the largest userbase share of nongamers / first-time console owners. If you take a look at the sales of casual shovelware crap and "hardcore" games, the shovelware rock it. One might even suspect, that PS3 has more "gamers" than Wii, since I can't really picture true gamers buying Wii Fit (and we are talking 22.3 milions here)... wanna lose fat? Get to the gym you chubby bastards!