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Zero999 on 24 April 2014
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Keegs79 said:
Zero999 said:

how about a simpler fact? over 300 games sold 500k+ on wii, most of them are third party, both exclusive and multiplatform. with those sales, the vast majority, if not all, are profitable.

Now you said 300 made sold over 500,000? Wrong. It was 262.

http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/2/wii/

The market was huge for the Wii. Of course it was going to have third party games that sold but it doesn't mean its going to be successful. What third party games sold well? No surprise, casual games. Games that the Wii was targeted to in the first place. That is the spin! That was the one hit wonder with the Wii that made Nintendo successful. They can't capitalize on it because the Wii U isn't attracting the casual market and major AAA titles from third parties didn't even sale all that well. Those casual games don't have huge budgets so of course those are likely profitable but Nintendo's own Wii Music sold 3 million

There is so many great games on the Wii that got outsold by crap so why should they have even bothered.

308 games sold at least 500k. 253 of those were third party.

don't make me laugh with this pointless "casual" term. as I said 253 third party games sols at least 500k units and close to 100 are million sellers. among those you will find all kinds of games and genres, p.e.r.i.o.d. by comparing to other consoles, we see that third party games sell less on nintendo than others, but less =/= little, it's still a lot of sales.