Wii losing its thunder?

[jarrod]

thx1139 said:

jarrod said:

ryuzaki57 said:

PS2 has five 10M sellers, Wii has seven. Within those seven two are bundled with hardware, but it doesn't really matter since Wii will have many more 10M sellers in the long run. 

Two of PS2's 10m sellers (GT3/4) were also bundled with hardware.  Also, all PS2's 10m sellers were from Sony or Rockstar (and from 1 franchise each), so it's not like there's much 3rd party diversity there either.

Those 2 were only bundled for a short time. Except for Japan WiiSports has been bundled since the beginning.  WiiPlay also counts as 1 of the 10m sellers and people bought a controller with a game packed in.  Great ploy for Nintendo to get WiiPlay in the top 10 week after week month after month, but not worthy of praise for producing a game worthy of selling 1 million let alone 10 million.

GT3, while it was bundled in summer 2000, was basically the only SKU in America though thanks to shortages.  If you wanted a PS2 that summer, you had to get one with GT3... I think that's in part why it's US sales are so inflated compared to the rest of the series.

Wii Play and Wii Sports probably would've sold 10m stand alone imo.  Of course, both likely would've been budget priced at launch too on their own (as Wii Sports was in Japan).