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Kasz216 on 21 February 2008
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gebx said:
Legend11 said:
The 360 has a lot of older games still charting and some of them are $29.99 or even $19.99 in some cases... That's in additional to deals and discounts at various stores. The Wii sells a lot of Nintendo first party games that typically don't see drops in price for a long time (some of the Wii's 1st party launch games are still the same price). There are of course many other variables (a person buying a new system tends to buy games along with it) and the 360 sold the least in January.

Quick look on bestbuy.com (U.S.)

360
110 games under $49.99
17 of those under $25

PS3
48 games under $49.99
3 of those under $25

Like Legend said, their are a lot of games available for cheap for the 360 compared to the PS3


I'm not sure if that's how they calculate those numbers. That would make the whole thing a really inaccurate affair since you have to take into account small stores, stores you don't cover... all sorts of variables.

Most likely they only calculate it by official price cuts by the manufacturer and not individual store cuts and deals.

Of course there is no gurantee the Wii is going to outsell the 360 in software anwyay though the Wii's stats in such a thing are a bit confounding do to it's supply issues and the new market. Never have so many "casual" owners actually bought a system so early in it's life.

The truth is, a lot of these people might end up being like the Atari early adopters. They were "casuals" but the ended up buying a lot of software, a decent amount fell away but ended up buying 8-12 games before they did. So Wii's software arc may be quite unpredictable as the future moves on.

The fact that they pulled out the revenue instead of outright numbers though suggests the Wii might of acually sold more software then the 360 this month.