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bardicverse on 19 June 2008
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HappySqurriel said:
siriguillo said:
FJ-Warez said:
playnext3 said:
this is a good argument for thirds party to develope more games for ps3 and 360

 

Do you realize that the third party with crappy games hold above 30 % of the Wii market??? This is a good argument to push more quality titles on the Wii..

Wrong, some third party companies have already tried to make good quality games but sells were not got at all, compared to games like wiisport and other mini games titles, so they better stick to making low investments, there is no need to change the strategy, since most wii owners are non hardcore( (my neighbor has a wii and has no idea what Zelda is)).

 

Top 10 Third Party XBox 360 games in North America in 2008:

  1. Grand Theft Auto 4 (3,599,550)
  2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warefare (1,551,770)
  3. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (1,113,826)
  4. Army of Two (888,343)
  5. Rock Band (882,312)
  6. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (875,134)
  7. Devil May Cry 4 (690,059)
  8. Assassins Creed (643,385)
  9. Mass Effect (537,349)
  10. Burnout Paradise (448,853)

These 10 games represent over 45% of third party games sold on the XBox 360, all featured Massive marketing campaigns, and most are based off of well established franchises.

Top 10 Third Party Wii games in North America in 2008:

  1. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (1,063,388)
  2. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic games (700,576)
  3. Carnival Games (468,385)
  4. Lego Star Wars: The complete Saga (441,243)
  5. Game Party (375,432)
  6. Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (338,268)
  7. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (325,525)
  8. Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (306,475)
  9. Dance Dance Revolution: Hotest Party (273,163)
  10. Madden NFL 08 (253,793)

These 10 games represent over 30% of third party games sold on the Wii, they all had some of the largest marketing campaigns for third party Wii games, and most are based off of well established franchises.

If you could look past your biases, you would realize that third party games are performing in the range that they're mainly because third party publishers are not supporting their games on the level they're for XBox 360 games. If Ubisoft spent the money on marketing No More Heros that they spent marketing Assassin's Creed (and Vice Versa) you would see these two games have inverted sales ...

Happy - Just curious where that list is from. According to the comparison charts here -

http://vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=America&game1=Resident+Evil+4%3A+Wii+Edition+-+Wii&reg2=America&game2=Resident+Evil%3A+Umbrella+Chronicles+-+Wii&reg3=All&game3=&weeks=100

RE 4 for Wii and RE:UC are at nearly 1 mil and 600k respectively.

 

Your chart is saying that RE 4 has sold only 325k and Umbrella Chronicles 330k. Something has to be off on those charts.