pikazoo2 on 19 March 2008
| mrstickball said: Xbrawl, I hate to say it....But it'll take a long time for Nintendo to overtake Microsoft for the downloadable games market. Nintendo has sold an estimated $62.5m in Virtual Console sales since launch. The Xbox Live Arcade service has sold more than double that since it's inception - and grossed more revenue in 2007 than VC has done, LTD. And that's fairly telling, atleast to me: We're talking Zelda, Mario, and other uber-IPs that have most likely sold the bulk of that (look at Sonic on XBLA to see how well comparibles have done - fairly well). But when WiiWare comes up, it faces more problems than PSN and XBLA face - memory limitations, lower userbase, and unknown game sizes - how many WiiWare titles is a person going to fit on a 512mb internal card that already has VC games on it, and save states? |
The XBL has new games too, while the virtual console only has old games, so it is not a fair comparison. Also see bolded part of quote for the thing that really stood out to me as wrong, as eventually it is possible that the wii will have a userbase equal to that of the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined.
