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cookingyourmama on 27 April 2008
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noname2200 said:
cookingyourmama said:
Kenology said:
cookingyourmama said:
Then the most important part, having a 60% 3rd party sales ratio isn't good or anything to brag about when the 360 and ps3 have 80-95% 3rd party sales ratios.

Actually, 60% is something to brag about when you're competing with the most talented 1st party developer on the planet in Nintendo.

 

Nintendo can carry it's systems on 1st party software alone... Sony and MS cannot, and thus, rely far more heavily on 3rd party support. The biggest game of this gen for XBox 360 and PS3 is a 3rd party title (GTAIV).


Well sony's first party console support is argueabley as good as nintendo's but that's not the point. Right now despite having a 6 million lead over the 360's hardware installbase the wii still can't outsell the 360 in weekly worldwide 3rd party sales. Forget percentages here, until the wii can sell as many units of 3rd party software as it's competition then it will continue to be critised.


That's an excellent rebuttal...from a year ago.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=719967

There's a lot more data out there that shows that third party sales on the Wii are already past those of the 360, despite having fewer big-budget titles. I'll repeat what I said in first post: I am willing to listen to contrary viewpoints, but since I've shown some of the data to support my arguments, I'll need you to do the same. Otherwise, I'll have to assume you're wrong, because an argument without support is as useful as Bush without Rove.

P.S. I'll be taking off for a few hours, so please use that time to marshall some good stuff to greet me upon my 'triumphant' return. I look forward to hearing what you have to say.


Haha wow, ok you do know that the numbers that viper1 posted for the week aren't the real third party sales overall? I've already had this discussion with him in the worldwide weekly sales thread. His numbers that he posted are only for the top 50 games overall and not the top 50 games for each console added up. When you are comparing the overall sales of 3rd party software you COMPARE IT ALL not just cherry pick some data to make the wii look like it sold the most third party software when it didn't.

The real third party sales this week are:

935,406 wii
1,017,931 xbox360
622,979 ps3

Despite the wii having sold 6 million more consoles than the 360 it still can't out sell it in 3rd party software sales. So the wii with an overall hardware market share of 44.8% only had 36.3% of 3rd party software sales this week, compared to the xbox360's 33.5% hardware market share and 39.5% 3rd party sales and the ps3's 21.7% hardware market share and 24.2%.

The fact is the wii is underperforming when it comes to 3rd party sales and it's doing it at a time when 3rd parties aren't releasing major games for the 360 and ps3 because they don't want to go head to head with grand theft auto 4.