Non-first party million sellers chart

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starcraft said:
But do third party developers say to themselves "but look at the time frame" when deciding where to put their game?

No. They simply look at a console's ability to make profit for third parties.

Yes they do. They propably look two things: 1. Look at what kind of games have sold and how much. 2. Look at what kind of games are currently selling and how much. From 1, they get to see what kind of games people own on a certain console. From 2, they get to see what kind of games people are buying currently on a certain console. Comparing 1 and 2, you get to see is a platform saturated by games of certain genre, how increased competition have affected to sales and what kind of variety of games do the platform have. If we have a platform that has the most variety in games, with steady sales for every genre, without a single games sales topping competing, less varied, platforms top selling games, there opens up a (nearly) risk-free market for cross-genre games, as well as it's safe to put any game on the platform, since you're able to make money with it anyway. How did Mario Kart and SSBB release effect other games sales? Before and after release? How did Halo 3 and CoD4 effect the other games sales? And i decided to leave the number three (which relates to number two) for the last: Most propably publishers look at sales on a given time period, last six months, or two months and change in numbers and add them up to 1 and 2. Since looking only what games sold and how much doesn't tell you much about what games are selling on a platform.