Dispelling the myth: The Wii market is (NOT) bigger than the HD twin market

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happydolphin said:

Courtesy of FOX, boys. A core game that was of higher quality (budget?) on the Wii, here are the sales. It was in 2010:
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=forgotten+sands&publisher=&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

Pos	Game	Platform	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1	Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands	PS3	2010	Action	Ubisoft	0.17	0.30	0.01	0.11	0.58
2	Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands	X360	2010	Action	Ubisoft	0.26	0.22	0.00	0.06	0.55
3	Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands	PSP	2010	Action	Ubisoft	0.08	0.16	0.01	0.09	0.33
4	Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands	Wii	2010	Action	Ubisoft	0.09	0.09	0.00	0.02	0.19
5	Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands	DS	2010	Action	Ubisoft	0.09	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.10
6	Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands	PC	2010	Action	Ubisoft	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01
Total	0.69	0.77	0.02	0.28	1.76

ok so it sold ~600k on PS360 each and ~200k on Wii. 1/3 the sales... in 2010 well after any core audience on Wii had vanished.

Pos	Game	Platform	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1	Call of Duty 3	Wii	2006	Shooter	Activision	1.12	0.82	0.00	0.23	2.16
2	Call of Duty: World at War	Wii	2008	Shooter	Activision	1.13	0.55	0.00	0.18	1.86
3	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex Edition	Wii	2009	Shooter	Activision	0.93	0.39	0.00	0.14	1.46
4	Call of Duty: Black Ops	Wii	2010	Shooter	Activision	0.71	0.38	0.00	0.12	1.22
5	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3	Wii	2011	Shooter	Activision	0.33	0.15	0.00	0.05	0.53
Total	4.21	2.29	0.00	0.72	7.22

COD is a better example and shows the migration of core people away from Wii. Each game got better each with and even included Multiplayer. Yet it continued sell less for one simple reason. Core realized NO OTHER 3rd PARTY games were coming after 2008/9 and started buying PS360s, they then of course bought the PS360 version of the games.