Wii owns the Platforme genre

[Lucas-Rio]

Torillian said:

Lucas-Rio said:

Honestly to me it slounds like some HD fanboys can't accept that the Wii is absolutely destroying their beloved HD consoles on this genre of games.

This is the facts. Platformers happen on Wii. Period.

Personally I'm fine with the idea that Wii sells platformers better on average, what I take issue with is you making overarching overstatements like "the Platformer is dead on the HD consoles" when it is most clearly not.  If you have multimillion sellers in that genre there's no way that I'll agree that the genre is dead on that console. 

On the note that Wii is a land where the streets are paved with cheese as far as Platformers go you ignored the sheer difference in number of titles in your analysis.

Average Wii Platformer sales: 1.27m

Average PS3 Platformer sales: .65m

Average 360 Platformer sales: .52m

and if we only do 3rd party games

Wii:.39

PS3: .28m

360: .51m  w/out Kung Fu Panda: .34

Not as huge of a difference as you made it out to be, the biggest difference between the numbers you were putting up was in the number of Platormers on the console.

In comparison the same numbers for RPGs would be:

Average Wii RPG sales:.295

Average 3rd Party Wii RPG sales: .255

Average PS3 RPG sales: .488

Average 3rd Party PS3 RPG sales: .497

Average 360 RPG sales: .785

Average 3rd Party 360 RPG sales: .639

 

Based on that I would think that RPG's are more dead on Wii than Platformers are dead on the HD consoles, but then really I think you're just overstating the difference and neither of those genres are dead on any of the consoles.

Average are useless when the numbers of titles are too different.

The thing that shows that platformer are dead on HD console is that videogame companies don't even bother to release them on these consoles now.