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

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KylieDog said:

superchunk said:

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.

You invent an excuse for everything, Dead Rising was a bad port on old engine, PoP was 2010.  How about Tomb Raider from 2008 then?

1	Tomb Raider: Underworld	PS3	2008	Adventure	Eidos Interactive	0.42	0.48	0.05	0.20	1.14
2	Tomb Raider: Underworld	X360	2008	Adventure	Eidos Interactive	0.50	0.37	0.01	0.10	0.99
3	Tomb Raider: Underworld	Wii	2008	Adventure	Eidos Interactive	0.13	0.23	0.00	0.05	0.41

Mainly this.

"The whole thing has been oversimplified and dumbed down. The Wii puzzles are a joke, the combat is almost nonexistent, and the game is pretty short." - IGN, Tomb Raider: Underworld (Wii) Review

By this time, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed taught gamers a painful lesson about buying crap ports, even ones with Wii-specific features. Since at that time most Wii ports were crap, I believe gamers started to associate Wii ports with crap, which would go on to undermine The Forgotten Sands's actual superiority.