Thunderbird77 on 14 March 2016
| Ganoncrotch said: The real way to show that the "core gamers" left the wii over it's lifespan can easily be done on the game database of this site, check out Call of Duty games on both the Wii and Xbox360 Wii call of duty sorted by global sales http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?page=1&results=200&name=call%20of%20duty&platform=Wii&minSales=0&publisher=&genre=&sort=GL COD 3 (2006) 2.25m COD W@W (2008) 1.96m COD MW (2009) 1.52m COD Black OPs (2010) 1.39m COD MW3 (2011) 0.87m Decline each year of the "core gamer" buying CoD on the system X360 Call of duty sorted by global sales http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=call+of+duty&publisher=&platform=X360&genre=&minSales=0&results=200 On the X360 the scale is the other way around, (with the exception of the legacy ports of the PS4/X1 Black ops 3 and Ghosts) the lowest game sales were experienced by the earlier titles, growing year on year, not only is the number of "Core gamers" staying the same but it increases as the generation goes on. Not to mention that from Activisions point of view the system was also more worthy of Core games since there is 11 CoD titles on the X360 compared to the 5 titles bought to the Wii. Fifa looks more or less the same, the Wii games released earlier are on the top of the list for Global sales whereas the later year titles are all at the end, on the X360 it's the earlier games which make up the lowest number of sales and the top selling titles being the later games. Wii Fifa http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?page=1&results=200&name=fifa&platform=Wii&minSales=0&publisher=&genre=&sort=GL Xbox360 Fifa http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=fifa&publisher=&platform=X360&genre=&minSales=0&results=200 I personally am not a giant fan of the term Core gamer nor the rating of one type of currency spent on gaming to be worth more magically because that title is an FPS game rather than on a fun multiplayer game... but that said, CoD and Fifa are I think the peak of the Core Gamer type genres and those do show a decline on the Wii over the years and an increase on the HDtwins year on year. Also going to just point out here that while the Wii Fifa games which are lower on sales are Fifa 12/13/14 and 15 and obviously the Wii-U launched in 2012 so that make sense.... Except Fifa launches 1 year ahead and even Fifa 13 was out a few months before the Wii-U launched in 2012. As for the OP idea, I think not only did the Wii launching in the package that it did make it as successful as it did, but you have to remember that the Wii processor is just an upgrade on the GC's Gekko, Nintendo absolutely made the biggest profit they possibly could from the Wii in the way that they launched it, not only did the thing sell like hotcakes because it was a relatively cheap super family friendly machine, but also it helped them to recoup some of the massive losses they had from the GC by finding a home for some of the design and architecture which that system made use of unsuccessfully (financially). |
Awful comparison completely disregarding basic factors that cause lower sales of yearly releases on the same console. Also, to think that cod is any measure of "hardcoreness".
