Nintendo's WII -U will win the Holiday Season and the Next Gen IF

[Alby_da_Wolf]

oniyide said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

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I mean same level when supporting the console full steam and the same level of measures taken to sell tens million copies of its strongest games, including heavy bundling, like Ninty did, 7 Ninty games sold more than 20M copies on Wii, many of them were heavily bundled (but they sold also standalone copies, some fewer, some others more), we can say Ninty "militarily" occupies the Top 10 on its systems. It works for Ninty, but it would be a disaster for Sony and MS.

Just compare them:

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=&publisher=&platform=Wii&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=&publisher=&platform=PS3&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

I disagree, Wii is the exception and not the rule IMHO. How much of Ninty's games were really heavily bundled? WiiSports, Resort, NSMBWii?(not sure about that one) and MKart which was bundled long after it was already doing great. Thats not really that much different than PS3 bundles which Sony did do a few for their own games. GT5, Uncharted1?2,3, God of War, there was the Move bundle that came with Sports Champions, Infamous had a bundle. little big planet. So you cant say that Sony doesnt do it, hell they probably do it more.

Not sure what sales prove. Two different products selling to two different demographs, One blue ocean one red, one cheap one wasnt, and its Nintendo they have the advantage of being around for much longer. Wii sold more so it sells more games. Doesnt mean that Sony didnt support it full steam, hell considering that Ninty pretty dropped Wii sometime ago i would say that they didnt support Wii full steam.

At least four of Ninty's top seven were bundled in tens million numbers (Wii Fit and Wii Fit + were bundled mainly with Balance Board, but also in quite high numbers in console plus balance board bundles) and the reamining three had special bundles that were sold for far longer periods and in higher numbers than special bundles for PS3 or XB360, particularly Mario Kart Wii. I don't think Sony will ever bundle GT or Uncharted in tens million consoles. I can imagine it bundling them in very high mumbers, but at most millions, not tens million. This is the difference I wanted to point out. Also, despite heavy game bundling, Ninty usually sells HW at a profit since the start, while Sony and MS follow a loss leader strategy for HW during the first two years (although this went out of control for different reasons for PS3, XB and XB360, making them stop losing money on HW far later than desired).