A detailed look at each systems games sales

[albionus]

First @ noob, the one person not in the choir, Read what I wrote. I was very specific about what information I was using. I simply used the top 200 from last week. As I said I know there are limitations to it, in fact the very limitation you bring up, the 360 has a lower percentage of its games in the top 200 than the newer Wii and PS3. I then to an extent excuse it because try finding a game from a year ago today. It's possible but it's not something the average gamer going to Wal-Mart will be able to do easily since these aren't games that will be sitting on store shelves for long, if they still are. What I meant by much broader game selection was the Wii has it's games spread more evenly throughout more of the genres, including genres that are not present to any real degree on the 360. The 360 has 26 of its top 47 selling games (remember out of top 200 not the whole library) in FPS or sports genres. The entire library can be debated though not really effectively because again if you can't buy the game what's it matter if it existed a year ago and well looking over it, the total library doesn't look much different than the 47 I listed (nearly 100 out of 270-280 seem to be FPS and sports while on the Wii it's 30-35 out of around 200 in a quick count, although most of those won't get into the top 200 and won't stay long if they do if they are even released in the US). Also given the number of games in development it's just a matter of time before the Wii has more games in its library in various non-FPS, non-Sports genres than the 360. The first part is mainly for flavor, again as I said it is limited by being only the last top 200. The key part though that I focused on was the 1st party/3rd party breakdown. The main question is are 3rd party games selling well on the Wii today compared with the 360 and PS3. How well CoD2 or Kameo sold, or didn't, last year isn't too critical in answering that question. It works on current ratios so it isn't as affected by only being games from the last 200. While the Xbox 360 would probably stand to benefit from using the entire library on the first part on the second it would probably lose a little if anything. It would be adding in early games that didn't sell ass well due to the smaller install base. I would have included the 360 situation from this time last year for a better comparison but the history section is still missing on this site. At any rate seeing as you criticized the first part and the last part I'm guessing there isn't much to criticize in the middle which is good with it being the primary part anyways. @ssj12 Looking at the list of 360 games, only 1 game is a true 1st party title, Forza 2. I think 2 of Sony's 4 are 1st party and 4 of Nintendo's 5 are 1st party. I thought about including 2nd party but that doesn't seem to provide any useful info. Thanks to the rest of you, glad you read and liked it.