Well I don't have pricing information off-hand, so I had to look at software sales and I did say that more third party games were sold on Wii than first party games - that isn't the impression you get at all from listening to most analysts or industry people. As far as I'm concerned Wii is only dangerous for the big publishers who would normally take up the difference in first party strength between Nintendo and Sony/Microsoft which have low-teen figure representation on their systems. The top three publishers for each system might be as a (theoretical) example:
Wii
Nintendo - 38%
EA - 15%
Act-Blizz - 12%
35% for all others
PS3
EA - 22%
Sony - 14%
Act-Blizz - 14%
50% for all others
But the math is the math worldwide for third party software:
Wii
200m * 0.6 = 120m
PS3
120m * 0.8 = 96m
That 96m market is really only a 48m market since the development costs on average are twice that of Wii development costs.
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