| Mifely said: Just for fun, I decided to use World numbers in the same calculations I did above. Total software units sold last week, worldwide, top 20 titles only: Wii: 1.732M X360: 1.084M PS3: 0.783M
As a market share, big assumption that each unit averages out about the same for profit across consoles: Wii: 48.12% X360: 30.12% PS3: 21.76%
As a % software units (week) market share over number of HW units (total) market share: Wii: 48.12/45.36 = 1.0608 X360: 30.12/32.76 = 0.9194 PS3: 21.76/21.88 = 0.9945
...so indeed, worldwide, even by my wacky calculations, the Wii looks to be the champ in every dept. I stand humbled. Thanks for all the personal attacks. I love an intelligent discussion. I've noticed that the data seems biased more heavily for the 360/PS3 toward new releases (current example: GTA4), whereas the Wii appears to have more consistent numbers through its top 20. This, to me, seems to suggest that HD console owners are more likely to be interested in jumping the gun and purchasing software at full price (perhaps this goes hand-in-hand with their willingness to buy a more expensive console), which might imply that my "big assumption" about per-unit profits averaging out for large numbers may be a bigger assumption than I originally thought. Sorry to bring ideas to the table, as always. Good luck with your flame wars. |
Hey, if you come into an arguement both arrogant and wrong about something that's basic common knowledge you should expect to catch some shit.
Whether software is purchased at full price or discount doesn't matter to a developer. They get the same amount either way.
Aside from that Wii games cost a lot less to develop... well more then the 10 dollar difference in price. Comments from developers suggest it's somewhere between 2 and 12 times cheaper.
So your big assumption is a big one. Just not one in the direction you are thinking.
Given an equal amount of sales, a Wii game is likely to pull in more profit for a developer then a PS3 or 360 game alone. Which is why it's becoming more and more impossible to find PS3 and 360 exclusives that weren't either first party or part of some huge payoff.
