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RVDondaPC on 15 October 2009
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Killergran said:
RVDondaPC said:
It would have been nice if you used a fixed time frame for each console so we could compare them with each other but you didn't so everything is pretty useless except for the last section of data you posted comparing the different publishers. But it's pretty well known Ea is the biggest console publisher followed by Activision and Ubisoft is rather far behind.

Actually, it's far from useless information. It's very useful information if you want to know which company has succeeded most on what platform. Ubisoft has done well on the Wii, comparatively, and EA has done VERY well on the xbox. Different strategies work well on each platform, I guess.

The fact that the Xbox has been out a year longer than the other two makes almost no difference for software sales at this point, especially not the relative distribution of software sales for the three big third party publishers.

 

No difference? What are you talking about? 1 year is 1/3 of the total life span of the Wii and the PS3. How are you saying that that makes no difference?

Let's just look at a huge franchise like Fifa soccer from EA for an example. Overall the Fifa Franchise has sold over 5.98 million copies on the XBOX 360. Compare that to the lifetime sales on the PS3 which is 4.97 million copies sold. That's a 1 million unit drop off in sales. Using your logic you would think that the XBOX is a much more popular console for the Fifa franchise. However if you compare the releases to each other the PS3 outsold the XBOX 360 with Fifa 08, Fifa 09, and now Fifa 10. All by a rather large margin of 220.000, 340.000, and in one weeks sales 213,000 respectively. The only reason the 360 sold more total was because of the extra FIFA games that were released in the extra years time. 

The same could be said for every franchise EA has, which is a lot. And could also be said for all three publishers in this thread. I'm not saying the PS3 outsells the 360 with every game like it does with FIFA, there are plenty of game which the 360 outsells the PS3 but even those totals would be greatly distorted ratios because of the extra year of releases. The whole point of analyzing data is to determine results and influence decisions and your information not only distorts results but it will also misguide decisions. So again thank you for the hard work, interesting to note, but very useless except for the last section of data because that information is independent from each console.