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Thunderbird77 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Probably because both PS3 and 360 were vying for the same audience. The masses were buying the same games on those two platforms.

Neither sold more units than Wii but both combined were a much bigger market than Wii and are still being produced.

Both PS3 and 360 also sold significantly more software than Wii. Both physically and digitally.

Who cares what they sold combined? wii sold more. and it's easy to sell more software when you have much more titles available. wii sold more software per title and ps360 only passed it in total numbers because they kept getting games after wii had it's replacement. And that was 3rd parties necessity more than anything.

Not really. Wii sales were just highly skewed towards the top selling titles. As you can see from this table of VGC data Wii starts out with stronger sales but drops off sooner. the numbers in the first column correspond to the sales position in the VGC software by platform chart.

  Wii  X360   PS3 
1 82M  21M   21M 
10 10.2M  9.8M   7.2M 
20 6.5M  6.2M   5.9M 
30 3.8M  4.7M   4.8M 
40 2.9M  4M   3.9M 
50 2.45M  3.4M   3.1M 
# of million sellers 160 234 243
Tie ratio 9.49 11.6 11.05

You can see that Wii does best in the top 20, but once you get below the top 20 games things swing in favour of X360, and PS3 has the longest tail.  So it's a misinterpretation of the gross averages to say that Wii sold more per game. Because that's only true for the top 20 selling games of each platform, and that's only a tiny fraction of each console's game library.



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