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Sales - Writing off the 360 - View Post

naznatips on 27 December 2007
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TurdFergusonMcGee said:
luckduck said:
TurdFergusonMcGee said:
^^ Sorry, had to say that. But in reality i like 360 a lot and i hope it does well, and I hope PS3 does very well. I really hope people stop buying wii once they get tired of the abysmal game selection.

your just writting off the wii right now and that isn't fair either. People seem to forget that it is only the wii's first year, so there are plenty of great games to come.


Yeah probably, I just dislike the Wii. But its also the PS3's first year and its library expanded more than the Wii's. The Wii's Million Sellers:

 

Out of the 14 million sellers, 5 are Mario + a Wario game which is a character from mario (correct me if i'm wrong about wario) so that means 6/14 are Mario type. GH3 and RE4 are out for the other platforms. Zelda and Big Brain are remakes (big brain was DS). This means Red Steel, Raymen Raving Rabbids, and Wii Sports/Play are their only real original IP's.

I know you could easily take a look at PS3's million sellers and say theres only 4, 2 of which are multi platform. But the other 2 are new IP's and also theres quite a few games that are near a million. Also wii has over 10 million more which certainly helps. PS3 also has some games that will most likely/might reach a million at some point that are original IP's such as Heavenly Sword Uncharted, & Warhawk. As well Haze looks promising (if it ever f-ing comes out)


Big Brain Academy is not a remake, it's a sequel. Zelda is not a remake either (although it is multiplatform). Most of those games have Mario in them, but none of them are alike.

If we go through the genres in the Wii's million sellers we get:

5 party games, 2 sports games, 1 adventure game (2 soon when Metroid Prime 3 grabs a few more sales), 1 puzzle game, 1 platformer, 1 shooter, 1 action RPG, 1 music game, and 1 survival horror. The Wii's 14 million sellers cover 9 genres. Clearly party games currently sell very well, but considering the fastest selling Wii game is Mario Galaxy I don't think there is any concern about core game performance on the system.

If we go through the PS3's million sellers we get:

2 shooters, 1 racing game, and 1 action game. Not doing too bad at selling diverse genres. Of course it's sort of sad to see games like Ratchet & Clank do poorly, but it's certainly not doing horribly for an early system.

If we go through the 360's 29 million sellers we get:

12 shooters, 4 racing games, 4 action games, 4 sports games, 2 WRPGs, 2 music games, and 1 fighting game. in 29 million sellers the 360 covers 7 genres, and favors shooters even more than the Wii favors party games.

So if you want to talk about sales diversity the Wii sells a much wider range of genres than the PS3 and even manages to sell more genres than the 360 with half the million sellers. I don't think there is any concern at all about Wii library diversity from a sales standpoint. The PS3 and 360 on the other hand have yet to prove they can push many genres like platformers, JRPGs, adventure games and more. So I think before you criticize Wii game sales just because "Mario is in them" maybe you should take a look at what diverse genres those game sales represent.