| Morgyn said: The argument is that first party games sell disproportionately more games than 3rd party games on the wii. If you ignore Sonic and Mario Olympics (Sega, arguably ignorable due to it having a nintendo licenced chara) the best sellers are at 2.8 million and 1.8 million If you look at the 360 for instance the 2nd and 4th games are at 6 million and 4.8 million respectively with 10+ 3rd party titles till you hit the 1.8 million mark PS3 the top seller IS a 3rd party with another 2 in the 5 before the 1.8 million mark, whats ever more telling is that the Wii has only 2 more 3rd party million sellers when there are a over 10 more that have hit the milestone. Bearing in mind there are 2x as many Wii's out there. What this means is that not many units are shifting (generally) per game, and just due to the proliferation of games out there (yes, 256 currently released in the states) the returns are marginal. So yes the Wii is shifting a lot of 3rd party units, but marginal sales per game. |
That's an interesting argument, but if you take out all Nintendo 1st party games, the Wii is still selling more games than either competitor.
To say that the world's greatest software developer's games shouldn't be counted seems a little batshit crazy to me.
And this new "sales per game" argument... I don't get it how it's a valid complaint. These Wii games are profitable. Everybody's happy. The reason 3rd party games do so well on PS360 is because Sony and Microsoft's first party games don't sell like Nintendo's first party games. If anything, that's a compliment to Nintendo's software.
Is the fact that the Wii doesn't have GTA4 or COD4 going to hurt it? Nope.
Are you really arguing that the Wii is selling this many games because it has the most games, but we shouldn't care because they're all shovelware? Where was this argument when the PS2 and PS1 won in the same exact way? Or does this argument only work for Nintendo's market expansion and not Sony's previously successful market expansion?
