JayWood2010 said:
MegaDrive08 said:
But that's again your personal opinion, that doesn't mean everyone who has a wiiu thinks that because i certainly don't, I find the ps3 very boring compared to the wiiu, and the ps3/360 can't compete with Nintendo when it comes to it's games |
I'll admit that is an opinion butX360/Ps3 does offer more content on the OS.
As far as games I'd argue agains that. The main ones that come to my mind for Nintendo is Mario, pokemon, Zelda, and Donky Kong. Pokemon primarily isn't huge on home consoles. And while yes Mario Kart has sold 33 million on the Wii Halo also sold around40 million on the X360 in the same time frame. Let's not forget Call of Duty which has sold 73 million on the X360 and Battlefield with 12 million. Gears is up to 18 million and fable at 9 million. Forza now at 15 million. And lastly Elder Scrolls which is at 11 million.
PS3 with it's heavy hitters Has Gran Turismo, God of War and Uncharted along with it's 3rd party support which will play out similarly to X360's library.
The big difference in Nintendo and the HD Twins is that Nintendo sells games for long periods of times which extends one games legs but in the same time frame Sony/MSFT will release more from one series and trump that one game in sales overall. Not to mention huge 3rd party games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Resident Evil, etc. If sony/MSFT didnt release the next installment 2 years later then they would also have inflated numbers for each game because that would be all people could buy.
You are looking at Nintendos numbers ignoring time frames which is giving you only half of the information so no. Miscrosoft/Sony has both competed very well in 1st part and trumped Nintendo in 3rd party.
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1 game(mario kart wii) sold 33 million, 5 games(halo 3, reach, odst, 1 ce, 4) sold 40 million, I would say that's a win for mario kart. Again, you are comparing 1 franchise with another, even though one franchise is constantly rehashed(COD) while the other constantly changes(Basically every first party on the wii), yes COD sold 73 million, but so did wii sports, and that was just one game compared to 6. Gears sold 18 million, NSMBW sold 26, battlefield sold 12 million, wii fit and wii fit U sold a combined 44 million.
You argue that those sales are inflated but keep in mind that generally games sell really well in the first month then quickly die off. The only reason why COD keeps selling is because those same 14 million consumers keep buying the same game, if they were released every 2 years, you would NOT see 28 million sales, you would see maybe 15 million. But Nintendo is different, WITHOUT decent 3rd party support the wii still sold over 100 million more software units than the 360.
So as far as games are concerned, I would argue(with numbers to prove it) that Nintendo's 1st party easily trumps microsofts/sony, but Microsofts/Sony's 3rd party easily trumps the Nintendo's.
References
http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/7/xbox-360/
http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/2/wii/
