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VGKing on 10 May 2013
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LegendofLex said:
VGKing said:
3rd party titles sold better on the 90m+ Wii than the 20m Gamecube? That's not very surprising.

The problem is how 3rd party games sold much much better on the PS360 with much lower install bases. This is what people refere to when they say 3rd party games don't sell on Nintendo.

It's not just that third party titles sold better on Wii.

It's that third-party titles had a better share of Wii software sales than they did on N64 or GameCube. Like, significantly better.

And third-party software sales increased by almost 10 times over GameCube (which had 1/5 the install base of Wii) and by over five times over N64 (which had 1/3 the install base of Wii).

So third-parties are doing better even comparatively speaking, not just in raw total sales.

 Hell, Monster Hunter 3 sold better in Japan than Monster Hunter 1 or 2 (PS2) despite Japan's huge PS2 install base, so it's not really a matter of install base anyway. It's a matter of Wii just having all-around better games.

Monster Hunter wasn't the cultural phenomena it is now back during the PS2 days. Of course the Wii version sold better, the Monster Hunter brand has much better selling power now.