Wii Userbase - What the #@??

[ddobson]

This is a worthy topic for discussion - I would not be at all surprised if the Wii userbase buys very different games from the PS3/360 userbase. And there will be a casual-gamer contingent that paid $250 to enjoy Wii Sports and will only get around to buying something new once in a while, with no interest in playing Mario, Madden or any other established videogame franchise. But it's always dangerous to extrapolate from insufficient data -- the Wii is running at about 2:1 for installed hardware base and a similar ratio for software sales for the most recent American results, so there can't be too big a difference. Third-party developers are going to have to experiment to figure out what sells on the Wii, just as they did for the DS. That will take some time, but there have been hits for Ubisoft, EA, Sega and Activision, just as there have been flops. There's no indication that EVERY third-party game is bombing -- it's a marketplace, and the Wii's audience reaches way beyond "Nintendo fans." That makes for a lot of unknown quantities, which is why it's fun to track these numbers. No one in this thread has mentioned these numbers (probably because they don't support a dramatic fanboy argument on either side >:) ), so I'll throw them into the pot as additional data (current week from 05/06 US VGCharz data): #29 Wii Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 EA 9,076 192,994 #150 PS3 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 EA 1,663 139,585 #71 360 Call of Duty 3 Activision 4,079 1,048,435 #95 Wii Call of Duty 3 Activision 2,914 298,811 #120 PS3 Call of Duty 3 Activision 2,152 237,155