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akuseru on 17 January 2010
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theRepublic said:
akuseru said:

And how big is the userbase of the Wii compared to the GC? GC sold 21.74m worldwide, the Wii has sold 65m worldwide to this date. So the Wii userbase is 3 times bigger NOW (and continuing) than GC's userbase ever was. So of course there are more people out there to buy your games. Viewtiful Joe could've have 3x its sales if it had been released on the Wii right now. There are NO excuses for the lack of quality 3rd party games being sold on the Wii. imho, no excuse.

No, it just does not work that way.  There are countless examples showing that it doesn't.

Yeah, just overlook that I wrote COULD'VE had (have =P) 3x its sales.... You know, that means, could've sold 3x the copies or could've NOT sold 3x the copies. And yes, it works that way to some extent. A bigger userbase = more potential customers. Ofc there are many other factors like other games released on the console, etc that play an important role to sales. But if a bigger userbase have nothing to do with sales, what is the point of developing games for a console with a bigger userbase? Or do you actually believe New SMBWii would've sold 10m copies with 1/3 of the userbase? I certainly do not hope so... I am really looking forward to your, sorry, bs reply, lol.