Thanks to Brawl! Shovelware Machine passes RRoD Machine in Million Seller!

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De85 said:

 Wrong.  It's absolutely relevant as a statistic because as with any number, watching how it changes over time helps predict future trends. 

 You say that the Wii and 360 look excellent by the third party sales standard, and I agree with that, but only compared to the PS3.  If you include the 360 in your 3rd party million sellers sales analysis you get 46.9 million, and that's using numbers from a month ago because I don't care to take the time and update my spreadsheet.  

 Wii doesn't look so excellent anymore, does it?

I would never claim that the 360 has done a poor job of selling third-party software, because clearly it has. In fact, I said so explicitly in my previous post. It *IS* fair to mention that the platform has been out for an entire extra year compared to the Wii and PS3, however. (That's the reason why I usually do Wii/PS3 software comparisons, since they were released at the same time.) For fun, here's the 360 third-party million seller list as of this point in time last year. I reconstructed this list using the data from the 360 game database and the worldwide sales as of the week of March 16, 2007: (http://vgchartz.com/weekly.php?date=39159&console=X360&maker=&boxartz=1)

360 (Last Year) Third Parties
Madden 07 1.55m
Call of Duty 2 1.35m
Need for Speed Most Wanted 1.35m
Tom Clancy GRAW 1.25m
Oblivion 1.08m
Pro Evo Soccer 6 1.08m
Call of Duty 3 1.01m
Total: 8.67m

Wow... Honestly, I thought it would be more than this! But the fact of the matter is that the 360 only had seven third-party million sellers as of mid-March 2007, the same time last year. In fact, when I went back and checked the numbers, it only had ten million sellers PERIOD at that point:

360 (Last Year) First Party
Gears of War 3.78m
Perfect Dark Zero 1.37m
Project Gotham Racing 1.35m

By making this comparison, it turns out that the 360 and the PS3 have a very similar first 18 months in terms of million sellers. But the Wii outpaces BOTH OF THEM in third-party million sellers! I really did not expect to see that. And, of course, the Wii outsold them about 10:1 in first-party software to boot. So the notion that Wii third-party software doesn't sell is revealed to be one of the biggest Internet myths of all time. In a year-on-year comparison, the Wii's third-party software decisively outpaces both of its rivals!

I apologize if I slightly wandered off topic in replying, De85. When I actually ran the numbers, it turned out to support my argument even more than I thought it would.