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

[dark_gh0st_b0y]

oniyide said:

dark_gh0st_b0y said:

oniyide said:

thats just my point, you cant really say that Wii is diverse in the open world category, same as fighting genre, Godfather was released on HDs by the way

i don't say Wii wins the figher, it depends on taste, for SSBB fans it sure could, as well as the racing for Mario Kart fans (which are a lot of them)

i think it is more diverse

Wii is sports/party/dance based, HD is shooter based

but HD is more shooter based than Wii is party/sports based

 

if you count the numbers of titles released for each genre on each platform (DeduS post, regardless if they sold or not), Wii wins in 7 genres, Xbox360 in 3 and Ps3 in 2

and the only genres Wii is losing with a difference is RPG and Shooter, and wins with a difference the obvious ones as well as platformer, puzzle and simulation, from this point of view Wii has more choices per genre, regardless if Wii owners take advantage of this or not, which is why Wii lost almost all 3rd party support in 2011/2012

Wrong, if we are talking more choices per genre, that means you have to count games available, NOT sales. fighting, RPGS(Western, strategy, Japanese), FPS, 3rd person shooters, sandbox, racing(simulation, arcade, kart), sports(arcade,Sim) thats 6 genres right there that HDs have more titles than Wii does.  I would love to see where you're getting these 7 genres from, name them. Name me 7 genres where Wii has more more games than the comp.  Ill give you party, exercise and minigame compilations, and platformers, just to get you started

i was referring to DeduS post:

Since some people were asking for it:

 

Wii
Genre	Global Sales	Number of Games	Avg. Sales
[Mio.]	[%]	[-]	[%]	[k/Game]
Action	53,49	6,95%	173	14,07%	309,2
Adventure	40,04	5,20%	111	9,02%	360,7
Fighting	20,48	2,66%	44	3,58%	465,5
Misc	175,21	22,76%	259	21,06%	676,5
Platform	78,16	10,15%	58	4,72%	1347,6
Puzzle	13,10	1,70%	50	4,07%	262,0
Racing	52,37	6,80%	86	6,99%	609,0
RPG	10,15	1,32%	32	2,60%	317,2
Shooter	29,05	3,77%	66	5,37%	440,2
Simulation	32,17	4,18%	79	6,42%	407,2
Sports	262,12	34,05%	251	20,41%	1044,3
Strategy	3,56	0,46%	21	1,71%	169,5
Total	769,90	100,00%	1230	100,00%	625,9

X360
Genre	Global Sales	Number of Games	Avg. Sales
[Mio.]	[%]	[-]	[%]	[k/Game]
Action	101,35	16,73%	185	19,49%	547,8
Adventure	24,37	4,02%	52	5,48%	468,7
Fighting	26,36	4,35%	52	5,48%	506,9
Misc	57,72	9,53%	108	11,38%	534,4
Platform	10,61	1,75%	22	2,32%	482,3
Puzzle	0,61	0,10%	7	0,74%	87,1
Racing	47,19	7,79%	80	8,43%	589,9
RPG	50,51	8,34%	65	6,85%	777,1
Shooter	182,37	30,10%	154	16,23%	1184,2
Simulation	9,22	1,52%	32	3,37%	288,1
Sports	88,35	14,58%	167	17,60%	529,0
Strategy	7,25	1,20%	25	2,63%	290,0
Total	605,91	100,00%	949	100,00%	638,5

PS3
Genre	Global Sales	Number of Games	Avg. Sales
[Mio.]	[%]	[-]	[%]	[k/Game]
Action	124,58	24,19%	166	20,37%	750,5
Adventure	23,24	4,51%	57	6,99%	407,7
Fighting	32,18	6,25%	46	5,64%	699,6
Misc	29,20	5,67%	102	12,52%	286,3
Platform	20,18	3,92%	27	3,31%	747,4
Puzzle	0,31	0,06%	2	0,25%	155,0
Racing	49,85	9,68%	67	8,22%	744,0
RPG	36,20	7,03%	61	7,48%	593,4
Shooter	110,80	21,51%	107	13,13%	1035,5
Simulation	5,74	1,11%	20	2,45%	287,0
Sports	80,37	15,61%	147	18,04%	546,7
Strategy	2,35	0,46%	13	1,60%	180,8
Total	515,00	100,00%	815	100,00%	631,9

 I used the VGC numbers as of right now. All games in the VGC database (with their assigned genre) above 10k sales are included.

Have fun arguing which library is more varied! :D