Current-gen megahits (5m+ sales) by genre

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RolStoppable said:

Seece said:

enrageorange said:

its very easy to prove a point when you set an arbitrary number that will help your point get proven. Tell me now why 5mil is the cut off for games? Is it because the wii has a quite a few very high selling games, and then little in between while the hd consoles have relatively few "mega hits" and a huge amount of games that hover between the 2-5mil mark?

Indeed, and a lot of genres do well on XBLA/PSN rather than Retail, mainly platformers. Can't say the same about Wii in relation to a genre like FPS or something.

Really? Platformers on XBLA and PSN sell in excess of one million paid downloads?

Yeah a fair few do actually, Castle Crashers, Limbo and Braid did over 1 mill alone on XBLA, and that's off the top of my head.