Wii Fit + Rock Band Wii = Death of "revenue" argument for 360 apologists

[Erik Aston]

mrstickball said:

bdbdbd said:
@Sinha: So, let's see:

1. How many gamers are "educated gamers"? Especially in the casual group, where Rockband is targeted at. Besides, if you're an "educated gamer", you're propably not going to get 360 anyway.

What about the Playstation 2's casual userbase? They got the same gimped Wii version, and look how it did. How is the Wii's userbase, for as good as it is, any different than the 40 million+ owners of PS2s?

 

Because Wii owners have reason to believe future versions of Rock Band will be on Wii, and be compatible with the hundreds of dollars of peripherals they just bought.

PS2 owners have reason to believe future versions of Rock Band will NOT be on PS2, and NOT be compatible with their peripherals.

 

Note: in February, 360 did $332M in sales. Wii did $283M. A difference of $49M.

So if, for argument's sake, 100K copies of Rock Band Wii (or the equivalent, accounting for people buying different peripheral combos) were sold in June, that would be $16M in revenue. Maybe those sales detract from other sales, but its still a highly significant contribution to revenue, versus the difference between the consoles, from a single game.