HD Wii?

[Thunderbird77]

binary solo said:

Thunderbird77 said:

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.

Every console is skewed towards the top selling titles. doesn't change the fact that wii sold almost a smuch software with much less titles available, meaning it sold more software per title than the others.