bumidan said:
@ Lost Tears of Kain and @Naznatips
From a 3rd Party Publisher, you have to look at it from their point of view. Questions and Data needed:
1. What is the attach rate of 3rd Party Wii Games? Obviously this does not include any Nintendo games. It might be quite low compared to PS3 and X360.
Quote: "As far as games not selling the console:
Week before SMG: 146,681. Week of SMG: 267,388 (+82%). You = wrong"
The better data to use should be a 3rd Party Title instead of SMGalaxy. Again, even if SMG increases Wii sales, it does not benefit any 3rd Party, in this case, directly - as they did not see any increased sales of their games.
Quote: "A few titles? It had 11 million sellers in the first year. That's more than the 360 (7) or PS3 (2), and it outsold the 360 in software in NA last week"
Same argument. Use only 3rd Party Games. As per my previous post, using VG Charts Data, there are only (3) 3rd Party Million Sellers.
Both of you have valid points. Of course, if the Wii continues to have massive sales, the userbase alone will help increase game sales, even if the attach rate is lower.
If you were a 3rd Party Video Game Publisher, using the data in place - more weight should be given to the console with a higher 3rd Party attach rate/success/track record.
Of course, like many have pointed out, it seems that Square Enix does not have any games (or very few) for X360. This quote may seem to point that it may have more games for the 360 - though of course there are other factors to consider still.
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Hey dude, you can not arrive late to the party change the music and think that it is ok. Your logic itself is not wrong and you made some good points, however your quoting is all wrong. For those that cared to read that long long Dodece`s post he said that:
1) Wii selling pattern is erratic
2) People buy the console without taking in regard current and future software releases
3) Those who care about core games are buying/playing other consoles
4) 3rd party sales are abysmal and yadda yadda yadda
Naznatips arguments (that you quoted out of context) debunk points 1 and 2. Your quoting make it look like they are refering to point 4 only.
Take a look at this. He does not say 3rd party only, he is talking about all software sales.
The console sells fantastically well regardless of the titles available for it. Consider that a moment. No matter what games are released, or what titles the system has in North America, and in Europe the console will sell fantastically. Remove the core AAA games, and the sales do not even budge downwards. Nintendo only delivered two of their three big titles for the year, and one of those wasn't exactly smoking. No third party developer has even given the console a major title this year. Still the console sells well.
At the moment AAA titles on the Wii are Nintendo only (IMO Capcom deserves it too).
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