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1st party software sold according to VGChartz...

N64 - ~130 million
Gamecube - ~80 mlllion
Wii - ~395 million (I'd guess around 100 million was massively bundled software)
Xbox 360 - 161 million
PS3 - ~135 million

Nintendo is a beast at selling 1st party software. Even N64 and Gamecube did pretty damn well in spite of a small userbase.

The sad truth is many Xbox and Playstation owners clearly don't buy a 1st party game.



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Mr Puggsly said:

1st party software sold according to VGChartz...

N64 - ~130 million
Gamecube - ~80 mlllion
Wii - ~395 million (I'd guess around 100 million was massively bundled software)
Xbox 360 - 161 million
PS3 - ~135 million

Nintendo is a beast at selling 1st party software. Even N64 and Gamecube did pretty damn well in spite of a small userbase.

The sad truth is many Xbox and Playstation owners clearly don't buy a 1st party game.

Nothing sad about it. The industry is made up of third parties for the most part.

The diversity of games from different developers on Playstation and Xbox consoles is not going to be matched on a Nintendo console anytime soon and it's getting worse, so you'll always see higher than usual first party sales on Nintendo consoles.



Makes sense why they sell more first party software than anyone else since thats the only reason people buy Nintendo systems...

Both Playstation and Xbox are esstentially "we are gonna suck up to third parties" boxes vs Nintendo is "this is our system so deal with it u lazy developers" sorta deal... And sometimes ps/x methods work and sometimes, Nintendo's methods work (sucking up usually works more obviously)

Not saying Sony/xbox don't have great first party games, just no one buys them for it in the long run



                  

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The top 7 Wii games had bundles though didn't they? Some bundles with 2 or 3 games?



1st party software sales for the WiiU will be more on the level of the Gamecube, so they could very easily come in last in this regard. Tough one.



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jlmurph2 said:
The top 7 Wii games had bundles though didn't they? Some bundles with 2 or 3 games?

Well... Both playstation and xbox also has bundles with 2-3 games as well so I dont think that makes a difference...



                  

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Sure. The competition on the PS4 and XO will be infinitely more fierce.



I don't even expect 1st party WII U software sales to hit even 50 million ...



the 2 bestselling 1st party nintendo games sold together over 5m till today. and the realy big games arnt out now.



Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
jlmurph2 said:
The top 7 Wii games had bundles though didn't they? Some bundles with 2 or 3 games?

Well... Both playstation and xbox also has bundles with 2-3 games as well so I dont think that makes a difference...


Well yeah, but aren't some of those 3rd Party like GTA V and Tomb Raider?