| Sullla said: The notion that Wii third party games don't sell well is a total myth. They've sold quite well from the very launch of the system to the present. Not "sell well considering they're low-quality games", just sell well period. Let's compare Wii third party sales to PS3 third party sales; after all, both consoles launched at exactly the same time. Wii Million Sellers (4) Not as dominant, true, but certainly no worse than the PS3 has done. Even though the Wii third party efforts have obviously been much worse than their PS3 counterparts, the Wii has actually done better in overall sales. And that's ignoring the fact that Nintendo has NINE first-party million sellers! (Sony only has two.) Contrary to what its detractors would like to believe, the Wii moves a lot of software. Not just Nintendo software either - it sells games, period. Most third parties have done quite well, although you'd never get that impression from reading Internet message boards. Overall, I've seen absolutely nothing to indicate that the Wii won't follow the DS's lifetime trend for third party support, which goes something like this: |
That post almost proves all by itself that 3rd party games don't sell well on the Wii. It may look like they sell well when you look at the raw numbers in comparison to 3rd party games' sales on the PS3, but when you consider that the Wii has more than double the install base of the PS3, then you'd expect there to be more than double 3rd party games' sales than the PS3, which there are in million sellers, but not even close in 500k sellers.
