HD Wii?

[binary solo]

Thunderbird77 said:

binary solo said:

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.

Well you've just been shown to be wrong on the number of games front. And you totally don't understand what the top 20 analysis means. Your claim is that sales per game was higher. I showed that this is only true for the top 20 games. That means for the vast majority of the games library the 360 AND PS3 solf more per game. therefore taking total software and dividing by total games is a very poor way to analyse software sales performance per game. Number of million sellers and number of >500K sellers is a better measure of the health of the software market on each platform. BTW the number of games that sold between 500K and 1 million (according to VGC) for each platform was: Wii-170; X360-205; PS3-251

Why should you discount shovelware? Shovelware adds to the total software sales, so if you remove hundreds of games from the list on the basis of shovelware, then you also have to remove thier contribution to the software total. But still, with the hundreds of games that have sold >500K on each platform it is clear that more games did better on 360 and PS3 than Wii. In terms of number of games against which VGC records sales >0 the difference between most games and least games for the purposes of contributing to software total is less than 600K, and VGC actually records Wii as having the highest number of games with sales >0. So if anything taking shovelware out actually makes things worse for Wii U, as it's got more shovelware sales to remove than the HD systems.

Also you can't discount the last few years of sales on the PS3/360, since games have been releasing on Wii right up to last year, and according to VGC Wii is still selling similar amounts of software per year as Wii U, thus continuing to add millions of units of software sales to the Wii U total. Just because the hardware is largely off the market doesn't mean there isn't an active software market.