windbane on 13 June 2007
| JDWolf36 said: How does it make any type of sense that if one game is selling better on the Wii as a spin off than on the Xbox360/PS3 main line title that what you should do is keep investing loads into the main title and nothing more into the Wii. What makes sense is taking the third more you spent on that PS3/Xbox360 game investing it into 3 better looking Wii games. Don't understand the argument if people will buy a crappy Wii game just because they are interested in the genre it makes more sense to invest into that genre so you can produce more games, not go ohhh well they buy crap so lets just give them more and more of it. If this worked why does the Xbox360 have any games that look better than Perfect Dark Zero what would be the point it sold a million copies is in their top ten best selling why not make 3 billion more of the same type of game for less than it cost to make a game like Gears of War or Lost Planet people will buy them by this logic. |
Geez...so far third parties are doing well on the 360, and there is an equal opportunity for many third party games to do well on the PS3.
| Name | Console | Publisher | Japan | America | Others | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Gears of War | Microsoft | 0.08 | 2.76 | 1.38 | 4.22 |
| Call of Duty 2 | Activision | 0.02 | 1.39 | 0.56 | 1.97 |
| Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter | Ubisoft | 0.02 | 1.29 | 0.63 | 1.94 |
| Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | Take 2 | 0.00 | 1.13 | 0.57 | 1.70 |
| Madden NFL 07 | EA | 0.01 | 1.62 | 0.04 | 1.67 |
Notice that 4 of those are third parties and they were all released early on in the 360's life.
Compare that to Wii third party games:
| Name | Console | Publisher | Japan | America | Others | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Wii Sports | Nintendo | 1.67 | 3.21 | 1.79 | 6.67 |
| Wii Play | Nintendo | 1.34 | 1.24 | 0.89 | 3.47 |
| The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | Nintendo | 0.56 | 1.66 | 1.02 | 3.24 |
| Wario Ware Smooth Moves | Nintendo | 0.47 | 0.55 | 0.58 | 1.60 |
| Super Paper Mario | Nintendo | 0.48 | 0.53 | 0.00 | 1.01 |
| Rayman Raving Rabbids | Ubisoft | 0.02 | 0.58 | 0.41 | 1.01 |
| Red Steel | Ubisoft | 0.04 | 0.45 | 0.51 | 1.00 |
That is the complete Wii list. I cut out over two-thirds of the 360 games to sell over 1 million. I'd say it's smarter to release third party games on the PS3, 360, or both.
